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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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And that is a natural ⟨p. 182⟩and proper offspring o• pride; they entertained prejudices against God, for the injury they conceived he had done them, in finding such an employment for them, as if he had put an affront upon them, and cast disparagement upon their high and glorious nature; and against Man, because •e is thus become an object of their easy, in that there seemed to be a greater honour conferred on him, than upon themselves; and that he was in higher favour with the Creator than they were. 6. THIS ••••er and envy set there upon de•ising a was •ow they might at once be revenged both upon God and Man. And that was by casting of man ou• of God's favour, and so undoing him: they consulted and contrived how to deprive God of that glory which was due to him from men, and make man to forfeit himself, and lose his happiness for ever without any hope of a retrieval. And this was of mere spite, and they resolved to venture their own eternal ruin, for the bringing about this design; and here was the way and ground of their apostasy: Hence called Satan, and our Adversary.
And that is a natural ⟨p. 182⟩and proper offspring o• pride; they entertained prejudices against God, for the injury they conceived he had done them, in finding such an employment for them, as if he had put an affront upon them, and cast disparagement upon their high and gloriuos nature; and against Man, because •e is thus become an object of their ea•y, in that there seemed to be a greater honour conferred on him, than upon themselves; and that he was in higher favour with the Creator than they were. 6. THIS ••••er and envy set there upon de•ising a was •ow they might at once be revenged both upon God and Man. And that was by casting of man ou of God's favour, and so undoing him: they consulted and contrived how to deprive God of that glory which was due to him from men, and make man to forfeit himself, and lose his happiness for ever without any hope of a retrieval. And this was of meer spite, and they resolved to venture their own eternal ruin, for the bringing about this design; and here was the way and ground of their apostacy: Hence called Satan, and our Adversary.