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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 44 (Question 11 cont.)
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[1.] THE Ordinary Providence of God is that ••ereby He Provides for His Creatures according to the Order He put them into in the Creation. It is therefore called Ordinary, because it is that which for the most part God follows in the way of His Providence: And because there is an Order or Method prescribed in it; we may briefly take it up in a few Conclusions.
1. IN His Ordinary Providence God useth the Creatures, and sets Second Beings on Work. God's Ordinary Providence is Mediate; He makes Use of Heaven, Earth, many Sensitive and Insensitive Creatures, every one in their Places, to be improved according as His Infinite Wisdom sees most suitable, in the several Stations they are in […] God doth not Ordinarily Provide for, and Maintain His Creatures, without their Instrumental Agency in it: He sets them to Work, & He Himself Works in and with them.
1. IN His Ordinary Providence God useth the Creatures, and sets Second Beings on Work. God's Ordinary Providence is Mediate; He makes Use of Heaven, Earth, many Sensitive and Insensitive Creatures, every one in their Places, to be improved according as His Infinite Wisdom sees most suitable, in the several Stations they are in 〈…〉 God doth not Ordinarily Provide for, and Maintain His Creatures, without their Instrumental Agency in it: He sets them to Work, & He Himself Works in and with them.
2. AMONG these Second Causes, there is a certain Order observed by the Providence of God in the improving of them. There is a Subordination of one Cause to another; they are Tied together, and follow one the other, as so many Links in a Chain, so a• that one goes before, and upon that another follows in it's Course: We have an Account of it;