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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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3. WHY the Devil was •b••ce of the Serpent rather th•n •xy […] creature, it not recorded; we may therefore only conjecture. We read, Gen. 3.1. Now the Serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field, which the Lord God had made. Possibly he might improve that natural sagacity for his purpose. It is also evident that this beast could easiest wind •t•elf into the garden and on to the Tree; and since all the creatures had payed their natural homage to man, as their constituted Sovereign, our first Parents had no ground or reason to expect any plot in such a creature, whose nature they understood; and therefore the Devil might with greater facility •ddress them in i•.
3. WHY the Devil was •b••ce of the Serpent rather th•n •xy 〈…〉 creature, it not recorded; we may therefore only conjecture. We read, Gen. 3.1. Now the Serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field, which the Lord God had made. Possibly he might improve that natural sagacity for his purpose. It is also evident that this beast could easiest wind •t•elf into the garden and on to the Tree; and since all the creatures had payed their natural homage to man, as their constituted Sovereign, our first Parents had no ground or reason to expect any plot in such a creature, whose nature they understood; and therefore the Devil might with greater facility •ddress them in i•.