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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.] AND this Providence doth all this according to His Counsel. That which God by an Immanent Act did Decree, that by a Treasure Act He doth Effect; and that according as He did Decree it: Eph. 1.5, 11. Being Predest•a•d according to the Purpose of Him, who worketh all things according to the Counsel of His own Wi••. This is One of those Works in which God Exe•• teth His Decrees: And Providence is exceeding Exact in following the Pattern laid out in […] Purpose: Those Seven Hundred Benjamites that could Sling a Stone to an Hair's Breadth, was not so Exact in hitting the Mark, as God's Providence is in answering His Decree: He doth not Vary in the least from it, nor doth one J•• or Tittle of it fail; but all comes to pass precisely as it was intended.
[4.] AND this Providence doth all this according to His Counsel. That which God by an Immanent Act did Decree, that by a Treasure Act He doth Effect; and that according as He did Decree it: Eph. 1.5, 11. Being Predest•a•d according to the Purpose of Him, who worketh all things according to the Counsel of His own Wi••. This is One of those Works in which God Exe•• teth His Decrees: And Providence is exceeding Exact in following the Pattern laid out in 〈…〉 Purpose: Those Seven Hundred Benjamites that could Sling a Stone to an Hair's Breadth, was not so Exact in hitting the Mark, as God's Providence is in answering His Decree: He doth not Vary in the least from it, nor doth one J•• or Tittle of it fail; but all comes to pass precisely as it was intended.