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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 17 (Question 4 cont.)
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4. SPIRITS are the strongest among created beings; they are mighty beings, Psal. 103.20 Bless the Lord, ye his angels, that excel in strength. […] is opposed the weakness of flesh. (Isa. 31.3.) There is no other sort of Creature, that is able to encounter and grapple with an Angel. One Angel hath strength enough to bicker with a World of men, for which reason they are called Powers: and it belongs to their Nature; for even Devils, because they have not lost the Nature of Angels, are so called. Eph. 6.12. But GOD is most strong: Power and Dominion are his, none ever resisted him and prospered; none can stand before him. (Job 41.9, 10.) we may take a little prospect of his wonderful Power, by observing how inferior, small, and contemptible, he looks upon all the power of all the beings in the Creation put together, to be. Isa. 40.15, 17. Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing. All nations before him are as nothing, and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.
4. SPIRITS are the strongest among created beings; they are mighty beings, Psal. 103.20 Bless the Lord, ye his angels, that excel in strength. 〈…〉 is opposed the weakness of flesh. (Isa. 31.3.) There is no other sort of Creature, that is able to incounter and grapple with an Angel. One Angel hath strength enough to bicker with a World of men, for which reason they are called Powers: and it belongs to their Nature; for even Devils, because they have not lost the Nature of Angels, are so called. Eph. 6.12. But GOD is most strong: Power and Dominion are his, none ever resisted him and prospered; none can stand before him. (