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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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4. THIS Providence is very Exert in Inspecting and Ordering of these Affairs. God exerts a great deal of Carefulness therein: There is no Being goes wrong, so as to miss the Design He hath about it: There is nothing falls but amiss or besides the Scope he Aims at. All things are made by it Serviceable to the Advancement of his own great Ends: Nothing is omitted which is of Consequence; nothing mistaken or insupplied. Among Men, there are great and fair Designs which are lost and miscarry upon a little Mistake; many a Plot becomes Abortive: but God's Providence is so heedful in all his Affairs, as to Antedate all Miscarriage; and without any Indiscretion, to bring about His Eternal Purposes: Job 23.13. He is of one mind, and who can curn Him? And what his Soul ats•eth, even that he doth.
4. THIS Providence is very Exert in Inspecting and Ordering of these Affairs. God exerts a great deal of Carefulness therein: There is no Being goes wrong, so as to miss the Design He hath about it: There is nothing falls but amiss or besides the Scope he Aims at. All things are made by it Serviceable to the Advancement of his own great Ends: Nothing is omitted which is of Consequence; nothing mistaken or insupplied. Among Men, there are great and fair Designs which are lost and miscarry upon a little Mistake; many a Plot becomes Abortive: but God's Providence is so heedful in all his Affairs, as to Antedate all Miscarriage; and without any Indiscretion, to bring about His Eternal Porposes: Job 23.13. He is of one mind, and who can curn Him? And what his Soul ats•eth, even that he doth.
5. THE Exquisiteness of this Providence farther appears in those Curious Con••••es, and Secrets of […] Wisdom, whereby God advanceth ⟨p. 134⟩