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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. THEY are Angels. This is their […] they have all the natural angelical prope••• belonging to them: they were created in the first moment of time; they are spiritual •••stances, incorporeal, invisible, of a […] understanding, exceeding active, &c. […] they have the name Angel put upon […] 1 Pet. 2.4. and Jude 6.
1. THEY are Angels. This is their 〈…〉 they have all the natural angelical prope••• belonging to them: they were created in the first moment of time; they are spiritual •••stances, incorporeal, invisible, of a 〈…〉 understanding, exceeding active, &c. 〈…〉 they have the name Angel put upon 〈…〉 1 Pet. 2.4. and Jude 6.
2. THEY are apostate Angels. And […] they morally differ from those blessed […] that never fell: they were created by God with all moral perfections, they were good for so was all that God made, as it ca•• […] of his hands, Gen. 1. ult. they were […] capable of serving to their end, in […] glorifying of God; but by apostatizing […] made themselves Devils, which word […] name of disgrace; the English word […] doing Evil; the Latin and Greek. […] signifies an Overthrower, or one who […] through another. The Hebrew, Stn, signifies a spiteful Adversary: they stood off from […] armed themselves against him, set up for themselves to be Gods in the world. Ha that? Con The god of this world. The Scripture often speaks of them, in the sing one, partly because they are united in their great and general design; their Kingdom is not divided, but there is an unanimous agreement whereby they consent as one […] against God and man: partly because […] are subjected to […] Prince, to whom they yield a diabolical obedience. However, […] are multitudes of them; a legion could […] be spared to one man, and yet enough […] tempt all the world besides: we the read of the Devil and his Angels. If the […] of this apostasy be enquired after, thus […] may be said about it, viz. that they did […] fall during Creation; r all stood right […] after man was made, that is the observation which God made upon the whole,