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Some select cases resolved. Specially, tending to the right ordering of the heart, that…
Some select cases resolved. Specially, tending to the right ordering of the heart, that we may comfortably walk with God in our general and particular callings: &c. In a letter to a pious friend in England. / By Thomas Shepard, M.A. Formerly of Emmanuel-College in Cambridge in England: afterward Minister of Cambridge in New-England. ; Corrected by four several editions.
Boston: printed by Rogers and Fowle, 1747
THE Sum of Christian Religion: In Way of Question and Answer.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
A. The blameless cause or occasion was the Law of God. Rom. 5.13. And hence as the Law did it, so God did it; holily, justly, and blamelessly. Rom. 7.10, 11, 12.
Q. What are the blameable causes?
A. Two principally; 1. The Devil abusing the serpent to deceive the woman. Gen. 3.1. 2. Man himself in abusing his own free-will, in receiving the temptation which he might have resisted. Ephes. 7.29.
Q. What is the Devil?
A. That great number of apostate and rebellious Angels, which through pride and blasphemy against God, and malice against Man became liars, and murderers of Man, by bringing him into that sin.