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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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THERE is seduction, improving of our wit to draw others into sin, to study devices, and lay snares to entrap their Souls withal.
AND there is murder, whether of soul or body, by endeavouring to ruin them, all these are specially Satanical sins: by them the fallen Angels made themselves Devils; and they that live in them, look as like him, as the child like the father.
USE II. LEARN hence, What need we have to implore the constant help of God to preserve us from the power of Satan's Te•ptation•. Though he cannot force, yet how strong is he in persuading, how subtle in insinuating? Remember he beguiled Man in his integrity, was too hard for him in his greatest perfection, who are we then to withstand him, who have always a party in us ready to betray us into his hands? Let us not then be secure, but always suspecting his stratagems, and sensible of our own infirmity, refuse to entertain any parley with him; let us commend our selves to the Grace of God, that by it we may be preserved, and enabled to escape the wiles of the Devil.
USE II. LEARN hence, What need we have to implore the constant help of God to preserve us from the power of Satans Te•ptation•. Though he cannot force, yet how strong is he in perswading, how subtle in in•in•ating? Remember he beguiled Man in his integrity, was too hard for him in his greatest perfection, who are we then to withstand him, who have always a party in us ready to betray us into his hands? Let us not then be secure, but always suspecting his stratgms, and sensible of our own infirmity, refuse to entertain any parley with him; let us commend our selves to the Grace of God, that by it we may be preserved, and enabled to escape the wiles of the Devil.