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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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4. THE consummation of their transgression was in their prosecution of this design, and actual accomplishment of it, so far as in them lay; and it consists in two things, viz. (1.) THEY hereupon became blasphemers of God. And that appears in those lying and reproachful reflections which they cast upon Him, in the temptation. They were lies, and for that reason, is the Devil called both a liar, and the father of lies, Joh. 8.44. They were the first who spake equivocations, untruths and falsehoods: and they were blasphemous lies against God; for we find in the reply upon the woman's first answer; Gen. 3.4, 5. a direct impeachment of God's glorious perfections; endeavouring to persuade man, that God in treating with him, had dealt unkindly, yea injuriously, yea falsely with him; had envied him his happiness, had imposed upon him, had no love for him, had laid a foundation for his misery; and what is this but blasphemously to traduce Him? (2.) THEY also thus became murderers of Men. And that not of their Bodies only, but of their Souls too: they seduced them, and so undid them, and thus in procuring of man's fall, they completed their own, in making of him miserable, they made themselves Devils.
4. THE consummation of their transgression was in their prosecution of this design, and actual accomplishment of it, so far as in them lay; and it consists in two things, viz. (1.) THEY hereupon became blasphemers of God. And that appears in those lying and reproachful reflections which they cast upon Him, in the temptation. They were lies, and for that reason, is the Devil called both a liar, and the father of lies, Joh. 8.44. They were the first who spake equivocations, untruths and falshoods: and they were blasphemous lies against God; for we find in the reply upon the woman's first answer; Gen. 3.4, 5. a direct impeachment of God's glorious perfections; endeavouring to perswade man, that God in treating with him, had dealt unkindly, yea injuriously, yea falsly with him; had envied him his happiness, had imposed upon him, had no love for him, had laid a foundation for his misery; and what is this but blasphemously to traduce Him? (2.) THEY also thus became murderers of Men. And that not of their Bodies only, but of their Souls too: they seduced them, and so undid them, and thus in procuring of man's fall, they compleated their own, in making of him miserable, they made themselves Devils.