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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 leads to Atheism it self. He that first Questions whether there be any Providence, will not be long before he Doubts whether there be a God: For to think of a God without this Relation to the Creature, is a great Absurdity: And this was the Atheism condemned in them, Ezek. 8.12. They say the Lord seeth us not, the Lord hath forsaken the Earth.
1. IT leads to Atheism it self. He that first Questions whether there be any Providence, will not be long before he Doubts whether there be a God: For to think of a God without this Relation to the Creature, is a great Absurdity: And this was the Atheism condemned in them, Ezek. 8.12. They say the Lord seeth us not, the Lord hath for saken the Earth.
2. IT is the Root of all the Wicked Dealings in the World. Men think God is not Careful about them, and therefore they may do what they list: He that Denies a Providence, will not be afraid of Committing any Abomination; Ezek. 8.12. Hast thou seen what they do in the dark, every one in the Chambers of his Imagery? &c.
3. IT is the Reason why Persons seek is Live by Unrighteous Courses. If they suppose that God is not concerned to Provide for his Creature, then they must Provide for them selves; they will be their own Carvers, and move by Rules of their own devising, and suck as gratify the Lusts of the Flesh.