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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]
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AN EXPOSITION OF THE ASSEMBLY's SHORTER CATECHISM: IN Two Hundred a… › Sermon 52 (Question 13 cont.)
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1. WE may methodically treat something about the nature of Devils. For man is n•r a little concerned with good and bad Angels, as therefore we treated of them as Angels under the doctrine of the Creation; so we may look upon them as Devils under the head of Apostasy; both because they ma•• themselves so by Apostatizing, and because their sin seems to have been completed […] their procuring man's fall. To be sure […] is the first notice that is given us of their showing themselves Devils; and in their […] apostasy, they became the instrumental ca••• of man's fall. Of the Devils then take […] description; They are apostate Angels, […] disdaining, through pride, that special […] which God put upon them at first; because blasphemers of God, and murderers of […] opening of this description we shall see […] deeply they were concerned in the […] man. Here then,
1. WE may methodically treat something about the nature of Devils. For man is n•r a little concerned with good and bad Angels, as therefore we treated of them as Angels under the doctrine of the Creation; so we may look upon them as Devils under the head of Apostacy; both because they ma•• themselves so by Apostatizing, and because their sin seems to have been compleated 〈…〉 their procuring man's fall. To be sure 〈…〉 is the first notice that is given us of their shewing themselves Devils; and in their 〈…〉 apostacy, they became the instrumental ca••• of man's fall. Of the Devils then take 〈…〉 description; They are apostate Angels, 〈…〉 disdaining, through pride, that special 〈…〉 which God put upon them at first; because blasphemers of God, and •urderers of 〈…〉 opening of this description we shall see 〈…〉 deeply they were concerned in the man. Here then,