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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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II. HERE therefore we are to observe how they murdered Mankind. That they did, see Job. 8.44. and the way was by seducing him into the Sin, whereby he fell; and so he was the leading instrument; He is therefore said to have beguiled our first Parents, 2 Cor. 11.3. the word is a metaphor taken from a thief, who collogues a traveller out of his way, upon pretence of showing him a nearer and better, and so draws him into some blind corner where he robs him. Here then we may take this conclusion: That the Devil was not a necessary compelling cause, but only a counselling and tempting agent about the fall of man. And for this reason he is called the Te•pur Math. 4.3. because that is the trade which he is always driving, and by which he draws men to destruction.
II. HERE therefore we are to observe how they murdered Mankind. That they did, see Job. 8.44. and the way was by seducing him into the Sin, whereby he fell; and so he was the leading instrument; He is therefore said to have beguiled our first Parents, 2 Cor. 11.3. the word is a metaphor taken from a thief, who collogues a traveller out of his way, upon pretence of shewing him a nearer and better, and so draws him into some blind corner where he robs him. Here then we may take this conclusion: That the Devil was not a necessary compelling cause, but only a counselling and tempting agent about the fall of man. And for this reason he is called the Te•pur Math. 4.3. because that is the trade which he is always driving, and by which he draws men to destruction.
Here then observe.