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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 53 (Question 13 cont.)
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2. THAT the Devil applied himself to our first Parents visibly and audibly, seems to be, because he could in no other way then offer them a Temptation. That there is a nearer and more secret commerce that Angels can have with our spirits, then by the outward senses, is not to be doubted; and it is certain, that Satan can insinuate his suggestions into the fancy or imagination of fallen man; as he did unto Peter and Ananias: but the reason is, because all our powers are now tainted with Sin, and so readily receive the impression: but whether he so could do when man was ⟨p. 184⟩in his […], may […] well questioned; since he must first corrupt the imagination, before he could •asten such a Temptation on it, which was above his power. Hence that of Christ, Joh. 14.30. The prince of this world co•cei• and hath ••thing in […].
2. THAT the Devil applied himself to our first Parents visibly and audibly, seems to be, because he could in no other way then offer them a Temptation. That there is a nearer and more secret commerce that Angels can have with our spirits, then by the outward senses, is not to be doubted; and it is certain, that Satan can insinuate his suggestions into the fancy or imagination of fallen man; as he did unto Peter and Anna••as: but the reason is, because all our powers are now tainted with Sin, and so readily receive the impression: but whether he so could do when man was ⟨p. 184⟩in his 〈…〉, may 〈…〉 well questioned; since he must first corrupt the imagination, before he could •asten such a Temptation on it, which was above his power. Hence that of Christ, Joh. 14.30. The prince of this world co•cei and hath thing in .