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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. NOW she joined with the seducer, and became a tempter of Adam to sin with her. Gen. 3.6. And gave also unto her husband with her, and be did eat. And hereupon we have Adam impeaching her for this thing, ver 12. And ••e man said, the woman which th•u gavest to be with we, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat. ••e gave the fruit it's commendation, which she had entertained, makes offers to him, insinuates herself into him, backs all that the Serpent had said, and attracts him to a joint consent with her in the great Transgression; and by thus doing instead of being an help, she proves a mischief, and becomes an occasion, yea a blameable cause of his ruin.
USE. THE Consideration of this will toll us, this need we have to be very wary to our se••es, best Satan should use us as tools to draw one another into Sin; and so become under-Devils each to other. And earnestly to pray to God, that he will preserve us: and it peculiarly concerns those whose relation and affection is most near and intimate. We have great advantage either to do good or harm unto those, in whose besoms we lie, and whose affections we have the ascendent upon. If God give us wisdom and grace to use it, we have the greatest probability to procure their salvation; 1 Cor. 7.14. For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, & the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband. But if we yield to the Devil, there are none whom he can use more dangerously, in alluring each other to the commission of Sin, and hereby to become guilty of ruining each other. And if the Devil got such advantage by it upon our first Parents, in innocency, what need live we to fear and tremble, and pray to the father of mercies to be preserved.
USE. THE Consideration of this will toll us, this need we have to be very wary to our sees, best Satan should use us as tools to draw one another into Sin; and so become under-Devils each to other. And earnestly to pray to God, that he will preserve us: and it peculiarly concerns those whose relation and affection is most near and intimate. We have great advantage either to do good or harm unto those, in whose besoms we lie, and whose affections we have the ascendent upon. If God give us wisdom and grace to use it, we have the greatest probability to procure their salvation;