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Useful instructions for a professing people in times of great security and degeneracy
Useful instructions for a professing people in times of great security and degeneracy: delivered in several sermons on solemn occasions: / by Mr. Samuel Willard Pastor of the Church of Christ at Groton. ; [Eight lines of Scripture texts]
printed by Samuel Green, 1673
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.
1. From the Supreme Efficiency of God; all creatures move as they are moved by him: in the matter of the action, if he give not his Efficiency, they can do nothing at all: in him we live, move and have our being: his Efficiency is the first mover, he is as it were the first wheel of the great clock of the world, or the spring of this watch: Second beings have an operation, but it hath an absolute dependence upon his Co-[…] that if so much as a dog wag his tongue against us, there is […] only Divine permission in it, but Divin Efficiency also.
1. From the Supream Efficiency of God; all creatures move as they are moved by him: in the matter of the action, if he give not his Efficiency, they can do nothing at all: in him we live, move and have our being: his Efficiency is the first mover, he is as it were the first wheel of the great clock of the world, or the spring of this watch: Second beings have an operation, but it hath an absolute dependence upon his Co-〈…〉 that if so much as a dog wag his tongue against us, there is 〈…〉 only Divine permission in it, but Divin Efficiency also.
2. From his Providential Ordering of all the affairs of the world: God sits King upon the flood Psal. 29. 10. He is Sovereign disposer of all things, and therefore good and evil comes from him, whoever it be that doth it. Amos 3.6. God saith David, bid Shimei […].
2. From his Providential Ordering of all the affaires of the world: God sits King upon the flood Psal. 29. 10. He is Soveraign disposer of all things, and therefore good and evill comes from him, whoever it be that doth it.