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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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6. HENCE the curse which fell upon the Serpent was an act of Sovereignty. That which belongs to the Serpent, in Gen. 3.14, 15. was not a punishment of its Sin, (for it had none,) but a righteous instance to the world of God's hatred of Sin, in putting a special remark on an instrument in it, though but passive. And truly what is the curse, which is come upon the whole Creation, but a witness against man's Sin, who abused the creature?
USE. LET this then be a solemn warning […] us, to have a care how we be used as tools f•r any to commit Sin by. God hath hung up the Serpent in Scripture for a warning to us; and remember, that knew not what it was abused for, and so it •inned not, and yet was cursed; whereas we can never consent to be instruments of Sin, without our own Sin, because we are capable of knowing the rule• and it is our duty to acquaint our selves with it.
USE. LET this then be a solemn warning 〈…〉 us, to have a care how we be used as tools f•r any to commit Sin by. God hath hung up the Serpent in Scripture for a warning to us; and remember, that knew not what it was abused for, and so it •inned not, and yet was cursed; whereas we can never consent to be instruments of Sin, without our own Sin, because we are capable of knowing the rule• and it is our duty to acquaint our selves with it.