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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 43 (Question 11 cont.)
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SERMON XLIII.
II. NOW let us consider of the Nature of Providence in General; which may be gathered out of the Distribution offered in the Answer, in this Description:
IT is that Efficiency of God, whereby He doth, after a most eminent Manner, take care of & watch over all His Creatures, in all respects, according to His own Counsel. This Description is comprehensive; And in it observe,
IT is that Efficiency of God, whereby He doth, after a most eniment Manner, take care of & watch over all His Creatures, in all respects, according to His own Counsel. This Description is comprehensive; And in it observe,
[1.] IT is one part of God's Efficiency: An external Transient Act, the Operation of the First Being with relation to the Second. In Creation there was a Beginning of Efficiency; In Providence there is a Continuation of it. Hence that,