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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 53 (Question 13 cont.)
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SERMON LIII.
WE have considered of the first leading instrumental Cause of Man's Apostasy, viz. the Devil: the 2d follows, viz.
WE have considered of the first leading instrumental Cause of Man's Apostacy, viz. the Devil: the 2d follows, viz.
II. THE Serpent. Which is numbered among the blameable Causes; how rightly we may consider: I shall pass this over with two or three Remarks.
II. THE Serpent. Which is numbred among the blameable Causes; how rightly we may consider: I shall pass this over with two or three Remarks.
1. THAT it was a real Serpent that the Devil made use of, as his instrument, in the Temptation. It is true, the Devil himself is called a Serpent in Scripture; yea and this is ascribed metonymically to the Serpent in this case, which was truly the Devils work. 2. Cor. 113. The Serpent beguiled Eve. But that Satan did not merely assume the shape or resemblance of such a creature, but improved that sort of creature in this design, is evident, because there is a particular curse denounced upon it,