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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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(3.) HEREUPON their fall i• assigned to their Pride. This was the first sin, and •••ding to all the rest, which went into the completing of their apostasy; 1 Tim 3.6 Not • ••vice, lest being li•ted up with pride, •e fall into the condemnation of the devil. And what is pride, but an overweening opinion of ones sel•, which makes him thi•k himself too good for his duty, and so puts him upon scornfully neglecting it. And this is resembled by the pride of an upsta•• Minister, who thinks himself too good for his People, and so neglects his care of them: this therefore points directly to the ministry of the Angels.
(3.) HEREUPON their fall i• assigned to their Pride. This was the first sin, and •••ding to all the rest, which went into the compleating of their apostacy; 1 Tim 3.6 Not • ••vice, lest being li•ted up with pride, •e fall into the condemnation of the devil. And what is pride, but an overwee•i•g opinion of ones sel•, which makes him thi•k h•mself too good for his duty, and so puts him upon scornfully neglecting it. And this is re•em•led by the pride of an upsta•• Minister, who thinks himself too good for his People, and so neglects his care of them: this therefore points directly to the ministry of the Angels.