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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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(3.) FROM the Necessary of a Divine Providence: Which thus appears.
1. THERE is a Care necessarily i•c••••• on God to Provide for His own Family. God is a Living, most Wise, and Powerful Agent: The World is His; He hath a great Concern in it; and how should He neglect it? He would ne••• have made it, if He had not intended to look after it: The very Relation He hears to it, […] Creator, Infers that of a Providence: He […] made it our Duty to take Care for tho•e of […] Once; and tho' He be under no necessary Nature Obligation to the Creature, whose very […] Arbitrary; yet Hypothetically He stands concerned, and cannot with His Honour […] it: He made the World and every thing in it, […] be a Gl•ss in which His Glory was to be […] presented; His great Wisdom, Power & Goodness were to shine forth in it; and that He may have the Glory of these. He must •or […] Second Hand to Uphold and Order it; else […] He lose all His Glory; and how can it […] with His Holiness to suffer His Great Name• to be so Dishonoured? Certain it is that without this Providence of His, it had been better i• He had never made the World: For,
1. THERE is a Care necessarily i•c••••• on God to Provide for His own Family. God is a Living, most Wise, and Powerful Agent: The World is His; He hath a great Concern in it; and how should He neglect it? He would ne••• have made it, if He had not intended to look after it: The very Relation He hears to it, 〈…〉 Creater, Infers that of a Providence: He made it our Duty to take Care for thoe of Oce; and tho' He be under no necessary Nature Obligation to the Creature, whose very Arbitrary; yet Hypothetically He stands concerned, and cannot with His Honour it: He made the World and every thing in it, be a Glss in which His Glory was to be presented; His great Wisdom, Power & Goodness were to shine forth in it; and that He may have the Glory of these. He must or Second Hand to Uphold and Order it; els He lose all His Glory; and how can it with His Holiness to suffer His Great Name to be so Dishonoured? Certain it is that without this Providence of His, it had been better i He had never made the World: For,