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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. SHE first hearkened to the Temptation Satan. The Apostle takes particular di••• notice of this, in 2 Cor. 11.3. 1 Tim. […] And we find in the history, that the Serpent directly addressed himself to the woman Gen. 3.1. And he no sooner offered that […] snaring Question, but she began to warp her answer, ver. 3. abating from the […] lu•eness of the threatening, and making it ⟨p. 185⟩peradventure: and then she subjected her understanding and will to the report of Satan, and the delusion offered to her se•se•, ver. 6. by which she entertained all those sensual lusts mentioned, 1 Job […]. the lasts of the ••sh, in giving way to her carnal appetite; good for food; the lust of the eye, in entertaining the desirable aspect of the forbidden fruit. pleasant to the eyes: the lusts of pri•e, •n aspiring after more wisdom than God saw meet to endow a creature withal, to make one wise. And these lusts so prevailed upon her, as made her to adventure upon the •ruit directly against the divine precept, she did ••t. By which act she defiled the root and fountain of humanity.
2. SHE first hearkened to the Temptation Satan. The Apostle takes particular di••• notice of this, in 2 Cor. 11.3. 1 Tim. 〈…〉 And we find in the history, that the Serpent directly addressed himself to the woman Gen. 3.1. And he no sooner offered that 〈…〉 snaring Question, but she began to warp her answer, ver. 3. abating from the lueness of the threatning, and making it