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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 44 (Question 11 cont.)
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SERMON XLIV.
TO the preceding Description we may adjoin, for farther Illustration, this Distinction, viz That the Providence of God is either Immediate or Mediate. This doth not constitute divers sorts of […], but […] a divers respect that is to be put upon it, for there are both of those in every Providence, that befalls the Creature: only according to the more or less appearing of the latter, we are wont to Denominate it: As will appear by considering of them.
TO the preceding Description we may adjoyn, for farther Illustration, this Distinction, viz That the Providence of God is either Immediate or Mediate. This doth not constitute divers sorts of 〈…〉, but 〈…〉 a divers respect that is to be put upon it, for there are both of those in every Providence, that befalls the Creature: only according to the more or less appearing of the latter, we are wont to Denominate it: As will appear by considering of them.
1. IMMEDIATE Providence, is that whereby God by Himself takes Care of all things as their absolute Cause: And this is fully Express, Act. 17.28