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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 42 (Question 11)
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WHEN GOD had Made a World, and Furnished it, He did not now leave it to it's own Guidance; nor did He so put it into the Hand of any, tho never so No•e a Creature, as to lay off the Care of it from Himself: But having Made it for an End, He set a Second Hand to it, for the Managing of it unto that End, for which it was Made; and this we call His Providence. God doth not do like Human Ar•iff•••ers, Carpenters, Shipwrights, &c. who Build Houses for others to Dwell in, Ships for others to Sail in; and having so done, look after them no more.
WHEN GOD had Made a World, and Furnished it, He did not now leave it to it's own Guidance; nor did He so put it into the Hand of any, tho never so No•e a Creature, as to lay off the Care of it from Himself: But having Made it for an End, He set a Second Hand to it, for the Managing of it unto that End, for which it was Made; and this we call His Providence. God doth not do like Human Ar•iff•••ers, Carpencers, Shipurights, &c. who Build Houses for others to Dwell in, Ships for others to Sail in; and having so done, look after them no more.
IN the Inquiry into the Nature of God's Providence, as it is in the Answer pointed unto us, we may 1. Make it appear, That there is a Providence. 2. Inquire into the General Nature of it. 3. Take Notice of it in the Parts wherein it exerts it s•••. We are to make it appear.
IN the Inquiry into the Nature of God's Previdence, as it is in the Answer pointed unto us, we may 1. Make it appear, That there is a Providence. 2. Inquire into the General Nature of it. 3. Take Notice of it in the Parts wherein it exerts it s•••. We are to make it appear.