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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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3. THE ground of their Apostasy, or that wherein they fell. They through pride disdained the special office which was put upon them at the first. There are various opinions about the sin of the Angels which ruined them, and the Scripture seems to speak something darkly above it; but yet if we put things together, we may spell our something about it. Here then take these Conclusions.
3. THE ground of their Apostacy, or that wherein they fell. They through pride disdained the special office which was put upon them at the first. There are various opinions about the sin of the Angels which ruined them, and the Scripture seems to speak something darkly above it; but yet if we put things together, we may •pell our something about it. Here then take these Conclusions.
(1.) THAT there was a special office for the good of man, which God put the Angels into a• first, and made it the rest or trial of their obedience. Angels, as all other Beings, were made for the service of God: they being in the top of the Creation, and the most noble Beings, were therefore in order next unto God, and thereupon nextly and immediately for him. Man was made a little lower than them, and therefore they were not put into his •••rter, nor was he to have any dominion over them: but God, by a positive order •••ned them for his ministration; so we […], Heb. 1.14. Are they not all ministering […], sent forth to minister for them, who shall be •eirs of salvation? where we have their inferiority to Christ, proved by the office they […] and the whole texture of the words import it to be an office. This precept then was positive; and this office was to be a rest. They owed all homage to God, now God would prove them by such an appointment as this, as he did man by another test, viz. the […] of Knowledge.