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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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USE I. THAT there are no Fortuitous […] Casual Events in the World, falling out by Fortune or besides the Intention of the First C•••: No, not in the least decidents or Circumstami•• Casualties which happen to the Creature. Fortune was a Blind Idol devised by the Heathen; and is by the Devil spit upon the Face of Divine Providence. That there is a Contingency […] things with respect to Second Causes, is a Truth: But to say there is any thing merely Casual, referring to the First Cause, is Blasphemy. Accidents are Casual to us, because in respect […] Second Causes, they are equally like to be, and not to be; but in respect to God they are not s•: We are therefore here taught to see a Hand of God in all Casual Events. Men are apt to […] them off with a Slight or Contempt, and […], They might have befallen others, as well as us: True, as to the things themselves; but if the […] of God Orders all things, then there was a Finger of God Disposing of those Casualties […] befall us in particular: And this ought to be studied and considered. The Man Drew a […] at a Venture; but God directed the Arrow to his Ahab, and Kill him, according as He had Thr••• ned.
USE I. THAT there are no Fortuitous 〈…〉 Casual Events in the World, falling out by Furtune or besides the Intention of the First C•••: No, not in the least decidents or Circumstami•• Casualties which happen to the Creature. Furtune was a Blind Idol devis'd by the Heathen; and is by the Devil spit upon the Face of Divine Providence. That there is a Contingency 〈…〉 things with respect to Second Causes, is a Truth: But to say there is any thing meerly Casual, referring to the First Cause, is Blasphemy. Accidents are Casual to us, because in respect 〈…〉 Second Causes, they are equally like to be, and not to be; but in respect to God they are not s•: We are therefore here taught to see a Hand of God in all Casual Events. Men are apt to 〈…〉 them off with a Slight or Contempt, and 〈…〉, They might have befallen others, as well es us: True, as to the things themselves; but if the of God Orders all things, then there was a Finger of God Disposing of those Casualties befall us in particular: And this ought to be studied and considered. The Man Drew a at a Venture; but God directed the Arrow to his Ahab, and Kill him, according as He had Thr ned.