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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.) THAT Adam by this free will […] his was able […] ••ay• i• with the […] good. His free will was made •or good […], and not for evil. It evil had been it's object as well as good, not it had been made with a• indifferency to one •s well as the other, this freedom th•• had been the proper cause of his choosing evil; but so it was not, but only by accident. Ma•• free will was no more made for him to fall by, as it's direct end, than a knife is made for a man to cut his •ingers withal; r•y it is herein evident, that it was made for good directly, and not for evil; because whensoever ma• chooseth the evil, rather than good, it is under the notion and appearance of good, and therefore there lay the fallacy of ••e Temptation, Gen. 3.6. and this is the leading cause of all Si•. Isai. 5.20. If […] them that […] evil good, and good evil; that […] darkness for light, and light for darkness; th•• for bitter for sweet & sweet for bitter.
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