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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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(2.) THAT this test was the unblameable […] of their f•ll. To call it a cause is too […] •n occasion it was. The Angels f•ll, was a revolt from God, a renouncing of the […] they owed to him; now they […] cause by counsel; they therefore […] something that was to them a motive, which put them upon so doing; and what could that be but this office of theirs? for, if we ••••ider them as glorious Intelligences, […] with knowledge and perfect holiness […] creation, they could not be dis••••••, either at their Being, •or as […] they had the greatest excellency of […] of any, they could see no other creation of a better make for them to emulate; […] at the Place of their Habitation, for that […] Heaven, the best and most glorious in the […] Creation, and every way fitted for their entertainment, no• at their Serving and […] of God directly, for they knew him […] the most glorious Being, and themselves […] Creatures, and had a natural delight […], and subjection to him, and knew it […] their happiness; and therefore all the […] that the rest of the Creation was in […], they sung to him in consort, Job […] and what else doth their now remain […] moving cause of their rejecting their […] to God, but not liking of their Special Work?
(2.) THAT this test was the unblameable 〈…〉 of their f•ll. To call it a cause is too 〈…〉 •n occasion it was. The Angels f•ll, was a revolt from God, a renouncing of the 〈…〉 they owed to him; now they 〈…〉 cause by counsel; they therefore 〈…〉 something that was to them a motive, which put them upon so doing; and what could that be but this office of theirs? for, if we ••••ider them as glorious Intelligences, with knowledge and perfect holiness creation, they could not be dis, either at their Being, or as they had the greatest excellency of of any, they could see no other creation of a better make for them to emulate; at the Place of their Habitation, for that Heaven, the best and most glorious in the Creation, and every way fitted for their entertainment, no at their Serving and of God directly, for they knew him the most glorious Being, and themselves Creatures, and had a natural delight , and subjection to him, and knew it their happiness; and therefore all the that the rest of the Creation was in , they sung to him in consort, Job and what else doth their now remain moving cause of their rejecting their to God, but not liking of their Special Work?