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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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1. IT […] Uphold […] self it Be•••. The •ime Ha•d that M•de it must A••i•••s […] it in Being, […] his own Cost […] Charges. That all things are Provided for is plain; how else do they continue in then Being? But •is above the Creature's Power, and therefore a God m•••• do it. Every Creature was brought into the World, leaning on God's Hand, and i• hath not yet learnt to stand ab•••. The whole World is a socking Infant d•, •••ing on the E•••ll; of Divine Providence: the •••is of the Are have no fore Provision, yet there is a Pr•••ider for them: Helpless and shiftless Creatures have their Food in due Season. Give at Answer to that Qu••e, Job •••ult. It W••pr••••de•• for the Raven his Food? and Deny a Providence if you can. That Man is not his ow• Provider and Preserver, tho' he be it the Use of M•ans, appears from this one thing, t••. Who can say and make it good, I will this Night go to •ed, […] rise in He••th in the Morning: I will S•• •y Field, and Reap such a Crop: I will make, •••uch a […], it sou return with such […]? Mm's goings are of the Lord; and because he cn't Command them himself, it is a Dem stration that he is under the Power of another in whose ds is the Breath of his Nostrils, and whose […] all his Ways.