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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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(6.) THIS suspension did not put a compelling necessity in man to fall. There was no […] in it; it did indeed expose him to the ha•ard, but without any blame on God: for man still had all the created powers in him, a full liberty with him, and all moral obligations engaging of him to obedience; over which the Tempter had no power at all.
(6.) THIS suspension did not put a compelling necessity in man to fall. There was no 〈…〉 in it; it did indeed expose him to the ha•ard, but without any blame on God: for man still had all the created powers in him, a full liberty with him, and all moral obligations engaging of him to obedience; over which the Tempter had no power at all.
(7.) HENCE Adam sinned voluntarily, or by consent, and is that be abused his our free […]. He, upon his own accord, upon free choice embraced the Temptation, and so threw himself into the transgression; it was by a deliberate and consulted act that this first sin was committed by our first Par•••, and it had in it these steps, 1. THEY consented to a conference […], Serpent about the command of God, and […] justice and goodness of it, Gen. 3. begin. with they ought not to have done; but immediately with utmost detestation to have rejected it: and this was the beginning of their great sin, and exposed them. 2. THEY entertained the pleading of […] to the […] of jealousies in their minds against God, m••• respect to that particular […] precept. That therefore was the trap which caught them. Gen. 3.4, 5, with 6. this then was their next advance. 3. NOW their judgment was blinded; and they apprehended that good to be in the tr•• which there was not. It was therefore […] misrepresentation to their understandings, which imposed on them, calling evil good, ver. 6. and this was a penalty of the former, and a further step of their fall. 4. HEREUPON they crowded in, a distrusting of God's truth and good will: a discontent at the station they were set in, an aspiring after a fancied happiness, which they supposed was to be gained in the way offered by the Devil, ver. 6. 5. AND now they are drawn to a full election; and choose to cast off the precept, and close in with the temptation: and this is followed with the fin itself, ver. 6. in which the whole transgression is consummated; and that acti perpetrated by which man is undone: th law broken, and the curse of it procured.