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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]
printed by B. Green and S. Kneeland for B. Eliot and D. Henchman, 1726
AN EXPOSITION OF THE ASSEMBLY's SHORTER CATECHISM: IN Two Hundred a… › Sermon 53 (Question 13 cont.)
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II. TO the Principal, which is expressed in the Answer: viz. Adam's abusing the freedom of his Will, to which he was left by God, in yielding to the Temptation, which it was his duty, and he had ability to have withstood. Here are two things to be considered, viz.
II. TO the Principal, which is exprest in the Answer: viz. Adam's abusing the freedom of his Will, to which he was left by God, in yielding to the Temptation, which it was his duty, and he had ability to have withstood. Here are two things to be considered, viz.
1. THAT our first Parents were lest to the freedom of their own will. Something was intimated of this under the occasions or blame•• […] •ferring to God's permissive Providence relating to Man's Apostasy. Here only let me add these remarks.
1. THAT our first Parents were lest to the freedom of their own will. Something was intimated of this under the occasions or blame•• 〈…〉 •ferring to God's permissive Providence relating to Man's Apostacy. Here only let me add these remarks.
(1.) THAT freedom of will property ••rss•s in a sp•ntane•y, r•bty of sng r rsasing. It is the privilege of a cause by counsel, and it upp dth an understanding to direct, and a will theltr reject accordingly. Such a freedom God did at first put into the Angels and Man; although it must always he considered in the subordination of a creature, in the concurse or cooperation of God. And this freedom is the foundation of all moral transactions with such creatures. Hence that,