The works of the Most Reverend DrJohn Sharp, late Lord Archbishop of York : in seven volumesContaining one hundred and twelve sermons and discourses on several occasions with some papers wrote in the popish controversy . I53^ if. SER The defign of Chriftianity. i John iii. 8. For this purpofe was the Son of God ma- nifeftedy that he might deftroy the works of thedeviL H A T is here meant by the works of thedevil, is plain from the former part of theverfe, He that commiiteth fin, faith the a-poitle, is of the devil; for the devil finned\from the beginning ; and then it follows, for this pur\pof
The works of the Most Reverend DrJohn Sharp, late Lord Archbishop of York : in seven volumesContaining one hundred and twelve sermons and discourses on several occasions with some papers wrote in the popish controversy . I53^ if. SER The defign of Chriftianity. i John iii. 8. For this purpofe was the Son of God ma- nifeftedy that he might deftroy the works of thedeviL H A T is here meant by the works of thedevil, is plain from the former part of theverfe, He that commiiteth fin, faith the a-poitle, is of the devil; for the devil finned\from the beginning ; and then it follows, for this pur\pofe was the Son of God manifefted, that he might de~yftroy>the works of the devil. So that the works of theidevil are all manner of fin and wickednefs ; and con-sequently the deftroying the works of the devil muffcpaean, the deftroying out of mankind all fin and|wickednefs, and, in the place thereof, planting in themall manner of virtue and holinefs. And this the apo-t!ftle here affirms to be the great end of Chrifts cominganto the world. It is the fame account of Chrifts undertaking, in o-ler words, that St, Paul gives us in the fecond to Ti- G5 tusi
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