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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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[3.] THIS Care & Watch extends to all things in •t respects, and that after a most eminent man••• find herein the Glory of Divine Providence appears: And we may take a distinct account of the Excellency of it in a few particulars.
1. IT extends it self Universally. It reacheth far and wide, throughout the whole Frame of Beings: it grasps within it all the Works of God; and there is Nothing out of the Watch of it: As the whole received its Being from Him, so it all con•• under His Watch: Hence that, Psal. 145.15, 16. The eyes of all wait upon thee, and chou givest […] their meet in due season. Thou openest thine and, & satisfiest the desire of every living thing. And there are Two Things here considerable, (1) IT reacheth to all Times. It is a continued, with tempted Providence: There is no Moment […] which His wonderful Care is not exerted, or His ••••rful Hand is not at work about the Creature. […] is asserted of his Special Care of his Church, […] Truth concerning his Universal Care about the whole World, Psal. 121.4 He that keepeth […], will neither Number nor sleep. He set this find to the Creature as soon as He had given it its Being, and hath continued it hitherto, & will •o so as long as it hath a Being: it is altogether without the least Intermission. (2) IT reacheth also to all Floces. He views every Part & Corner of the Creation, and pries i•• every Place: there is none so remote as to be out of his Watch; there is no where, where the Eye of Providence doth not view & observe. Pr••• 15.3. The Eyes of the Lord are in every place: beholding the evil and the good. And it is no idle Speculation, but it is Operative: There is no Place so dark as to shut his Eyes out: Psal. 120.12. The Darkness dideth not from Thee. Hence the Psalmist could discover no Place, where to get out of the reach of it, v. 7. &c Whether shall I go from Thy presence?—If I ascend up into Heaven, Thou art there: If I make my bed in Hell, behold, Thou art there: &c.