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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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6. THAT we are to acknowledge our Being all our Comforts, and a••ut Hopes of a well Being to have their Dependence upon God's Providence. And this calls upon us to wait upon Him for the Continuance of all to us, with Faith; hence that, Job 10.12. Thou bad granted me Life and Favour; & thy Visitation hath preserved my Spir••. Is Job Preserved to the next hour? It is because God extends His careful Providence to him. If God should keep us by Day. and not by Night, the last hour, and not this, we should never get through' i•: We could not so long stand alone. That is an excellent Watchman indeed, that so watcheth as not so much as to slumber: How should we then be continually bringing home the Acknowledgement of all unto God?
6. THAT we are to acknowledge our Being all our Comforts, and a••ut Hopes of a well Being to have their Dependance upon God's Providence. And this calls upon us to wait upon Him for the Continuance of all to us, with Faith; hence that, Job 10.12. Thou bad granted me Life and Favour; & thy Visitation hath preserved my Spir••. Is Job Preserved to the next hour? It is because God extends His careful Providence to him. If God should keep us by Day. and not by Night, the last hour, and not this, we should never get thro' i•: We could not so long stand alone. That is an excellent Watchman indeed, that so watcheth as not so much as to slumber: How should we then be continually bringing home the Acknowledgment of all unto God?
7. THIS tells us that we are to submit all our Concerns and Actions unto the Providence of God. As we can do Nothing without Him; unless we have the Concourse of His Efficiency to enable us to do all our Works, we must sit still and do nothing; so must all our Dependence be upon His Operation: We have no command of Events, we may do our utmost, use our best Prudence, take Care and Caution, be very diligent, & omit nothing that is rationally tending to further our Design; but after all, it will be just as God will: This tells us then, that we have nothing to do, but to study Duty, and faithfully to attend upon it and then commend it unto God: This Doctrine is the Ground of all such Counsels as are given us,