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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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USE. 1. LEARN hence, What are the Sins which make us most like the devil; and let it out us upon hating of them.
THERE is Pride, this was his ma•ter Sin; and when you show most pride in your look, in your talk, in your garb, in your carriage to others, the more Devil-like you appear.
THERE is Pride, this was his ma•ter Sin; and when you shew most pride in your look, in your talk, in your garb, in your carriage to others, the more Devil-like you appear.
THERE is discontent at the state and place God sets us in, thinking it beneath us, and below those endowments and abilities that we have; we think our selves better then some whom God hath preferred to us, either in honour, esteem, preferment, or wealth; and now we murmur and fre•
THERE is malice and envying others the favours bestowed on them by God, and thereupon studying and endeavouring to undermine them, to blast them, looking upon them with an evil eye, waiting to do them a mischief.