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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. THAT there is nothing comes to pass in the World that could have been otherwise, when all Causes are put together. If God doth every thing, and that according to His Counsel, which is sixth & unalterable; then there is a Necessity or an Infallibility of the Futurition: There was a Certainty of the thing although' this doth not hinder the Contingency of it as to second Causes, or put any Violence upon it, to enforce it thus to Act: There is no Fatal Necessity laid upon God. as the Stoics dreamt: He Acts with the greatest Liberty in all: but there is an Immutability in his Nature; and his Will having freely determined and […] out all his Works, He is now engaged, and He will not very from it, (Job 23.13.) […] is the second Being, especially, rational and voluntary Agents, under any Compulsion, but Act according to their own Choice, and yet no otherwise than in Subordination to the Rules of Providence; so that if they Act against the Rules of Moral Obedience, they are not for this Reason to be excused.
4. THAT there is nothing comes to pass in the World that could have been otherwise, when all Causes are put together. If God doth every thing, and that according to His Counsel, which is fixt & unalterable; then there is a Necessity or an Infallibility of the Futurition: There was a Certainty of the thing altho' this doth not hinder the Contingency of it as to second Causes, or put any Violence upon it, to enforce it thus to Act: There is no Fatal Necessity laid upon God. as the Stoicks dreamt: He Acts with the greatest Liberty in all: but there is an Immutability in his Nature; and his Will having freely determined and 〈…〉 out all his Works, He is now engaged, and He will not very from it, (Job 23.13.) 〈…〉 is the second Being, especially, rational and voluntary Agents, under any Compulsion, but Act according to their own Choice, and yet no otherwise than in Subordination to the Rules of Providence; so that if they Act against the Rules of Moral Obedience, they are not for this Reason to be excused.