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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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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; Hos. 2.21, 22. I will hear saith the Lord, I will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the earth, and the earth shall hear the own, and the •ine, and the oil, and they shall […] Je•re••. And it is God who puts every one of these to Act in it's Place. The Husbandman ••st first Manure his Ground, and then cast in the •eed; the Heavens must then Distill• their […] and •••ist with their Influences; the […] must receive them; and the Plan• must […] them to it, and by Degrees come to Maturity, &c. And there are so many various Steps and Gradations in these things: And God is in the Top of all.
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; Hos. 2.21, 22. I will hear saith the Lord, I will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the earth, and the earth shall hear the own, and the •ine, and the oyl, and they shall 〈…〉 Je•re••. And it is God who puts every one of these to Act in it's Place. The Husbandman st first Manure his Ground, and then cast in the eed; the Heavens must then Distill their and ist with their Influences; the must receive them; and the Plan must them to it, and by Degrees come to Maturity, &c. And there are so many various Steps and Gdations in these things: And God is in the Top of all.