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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.) THAT this freedom it liberty of will to good, was not taken may from man before be consented to the temptation; but in the inf•••t of […] •exsenting. It was man's fin was the pr•cating cause of this loss, and is therefore before it […] nature, and not after it in time. The loss of the image of God is a punishment of Sin; Adam therefore consents to the Temptation, and so he loseth his liberty he at once di• b•ys and d•es; he throws off the image, and so God takes it away from him. So that when the Tempter come he had it in ••ll strength; Man had else been punished before he had merited it.
(3.) THAT this freedom it liberty of will to good, was not taken may from man before be consented to the temptation; but in the inf•••t of 〈…〉 •exsenting. It was man's fin was the pr•cating cause of this loss, and is therefore before it 〈…〉 nature, and not after it in time. The loss of the image of God is a punishment of Sin; Adam therefore consents to the Temptation, and so he loseth his liberty he at once di• b•ys and d•es; he threws off the image, and so God takes it away from him. So that when the Tempter come he had it in ••ll strength; Man had else been punished before he had merited it.