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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]
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AN EXPOSITION OF THE ASSEMBLY's SHORTER CATECHISM: IN Two Hundred a… › Sermon 43 (Question 11 cont.)
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and yet not so effect it, as that it shall be any Stain to His Holiness in the least: As the Sun is not defiled by shining upon the most Dirty stinking Places, tho' they Stink the more for it's shining upon them, so God is then most Holy, when He is giving of Men up to Sin. He can so Order it, that Absalom shall Commit the most horrid Abomination, without being a blameable Cause of it: He can harden Pharaoh's Heart; and yet very justly Punish him for that Hardness of his.
and yet not so effect it, as that it shall be any Stain to His Holiness in the least: As the Sun is not defiled by shining upon the most Dirty stinking Places, tho' they Stink the more for it's shining upon them, so God is then most Holy, when He is giving of Men up to Sin. He can so Order it, that Absalom shall Commit the most horrid Abomination, without being a blameable Cause of it: He can harden Pharoah's Heart; and yet very justly Punish him for that Hardness of his.
6. THE Eminency of this Providence further appears. In that He is always intimately Present with the Creature. It doth immediately reach every Creature with its Influence: Acts 17.28. He is not far from every one of us: For in him we Live, Move and have our Being. He is Omnipresent with every Second Cause; and at Work Himself with all things that do Work. He is the Great Efficient, and Creatures are but His Tools that He Works by: (Isa. 10.15.) There is nothing doth or can Stir without Him: It is not Bread alone that Nourisheth a Man, but His Efficacious Word that goes along with it. The Action is the Creature's: It is the Man that Believes and Obeys, but it is He that Works it in him: Phil. 2.13. For it is God that worketh is you, both to Will & to Do of his good Pleasure. Nor is there only the Immediacy of Virtue deriving from him; but also of His Presence with the thing: Go whither we will, He is there;