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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]
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AN EXPOSITION OF THE ASSEMBLY's SHORTER CATECHISM: IN Two Hundred a… › Sermon 42 (Question 11)
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(2.) FROM the Supremacy which appears in the wonderful Disposing & Controlling all the Affairs and Actions of Rational Beings. Hereby it appears, that the Wisdom of Angels and Men is not the Supremum Agent in the World, but that there is One who is above them: D•• 1.17. T•• non••ing […] the Kingdom of […]. Which Truth is ••re than Ma•• es […] the Def••• me•ts of the •roege•• Provices of M•n, and o•••thing them to ends •••tra•y to the Inte• tion of the Designers. •ea also tho' the •owers of Darkness have been in the Combination: All Ages give their Evidence to this by […] ford Examples: M•n are so Skilful and Cautious, that they think •••tialy their Design must be effected; they have foreseen and antedated as they sup•••, all possible Obstruct or•: But men the Wi••• of •ice, who think there is no Wisdom like the is; when they have done their best are str••gely ••••tra•ed; as •ool, […]. 11. The nice is […] […], […] the bati• to the strong, nei•••• yet bread to the wise, […] yet ri to mn f […] standing, […] yet fwa it m of skid, but time & […] happen […] them […]. It Men did all, then be that hath most Sarngth would get the Day, &c. But because it is not so, there is some ens Cause, some controlling Poer that seci defeats them; and often to their greatest O fusion and fenishment: Yea the Powers of Darkness are hereby also Conred; and God useth Men and Devils to do His Work, wh they never mean it; Iss. 1.6, 7. I will sl him against an hypocritical nation; and against for people of my wrath wll I give him, a charge […] take the spl, and to take the prey, end to […] them drown like the more of the ts: H be aneth […] so, neither dci beat […] &c. It were endless to count the Exam which might be produced for this: It is […] eminent, in that none ever designed to […] any of God's Predicted Counsels, but befo themselves, and were made to confess that […] was above them, and this is Providence; J ss Brethren, &c. are a Pregnant nct.