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A complete body of divinity in two hundred and fifty expository lectures on the…A compleat body of divinity in two hundred and fifty expository lectures on the…
A complete body of divinity in two hundred and fifty expository lectures on the Assembly's Shorter catechism wherein the doctrines of the Christian religion are unfolded, their truth confirmed, their excellence displayed, their usefulness improved; contrary errors & vices refuted & exposed, objections answered, controversies settled, cases of conscience resolved; and a great light thereby reflected on the present age. / By the Reverend & learned Samuel Willard, M.A. late Pastor of the South Church in Boston, and vice-president of Harvard College in Cambridge, in New-England. ; Prefaced by the pastors of the same church. ; [Six lines of Scripture texts]A compleat body of divinity in two hundred and fifty expository lectures on the Assembly's Shorter catechism wherein the doctrines of the Christian religion are unfolded, their truth confirm'd, their excellence display'd, their usefulness improv'd; contrary errors & vices refuted & expos'd, objections answer'd, controversies settled, cases of conscience resolv'd; and a great light thereby reflected on the present age. / By the Reverend & learned Samuel Willard, M.A. late Pastor of the South Church in Boston, and vice-president of Harvard College in Cambridge, in New-England. ; Prefac'd by the pastors of the same church. ; [Six lines of Scripture texts]
printed by B. Green and S. Kneeland for B. Eliot and D. Henchman, 1726
AN EXPOSITION OF THE ASSEMBLY's SHORTER CATECHISM: IN Two Hundred a… › Sermon 52 (Question 13 cont.)
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First. WE may begin with the Instrumental, because they were leading: and these are reckoned to be three, viz. the Devil, the Serpent, and the Woman That the Serpent was an instrument used in the temptation is not to be denied; but whether blameable or no will be considered in the place of it.
Here then.
1. THE first of these is the Devil, who was the leader in the Temptation; and though he be not named in the history of man's doleful fall, Gen. 3. yet he is plainly intimated, who else managed the Serpent to speak, and reason, and plead, which was altogether preternatural to that creature? and for this reason he is in Scripture charged, to be the beginner, father, or author of Sin; Joh. 8.44. 1 Jo•. 3.8. And here,
1. THE first of these is the Devil, who was the leader in the Temptation; and though he be not named in the history of man's doleful fall, Gen. 3. yet he is plainly intimated, who else managed the Serpent to speak, and reason, and plead, which was altogether preternatural to that creature? and for this reason he is in Scripture charged, to be the biginner, father, or author of Sin; Joh. 8.44. 1 Jo•. 3.8. And here,