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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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3. God is the only Author & Efficient of Miracles. Men may be Moral Causes of them, by Prayer; as Elijah, when he Prayed for Fire, &c. and for the restoring of the Dead Child's Life: Or when God useth them as such by whom he will show the Miracle; as Peter […] in healing the Impotent Man: But H••si•al Causes they cannot be; No, not so much as Instrumental: Hence they deny it to themselves, and ascribe it to Christ, Acts 3.12, 13. Ye Ale• of Israel, why marvel ye at this? […] look ye so earnest• […] us, as though by our […] power or •••iness, are had made this man to walk. The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our Fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus. And their being done in His Name, proves Him to be God. Whenever a Miracle is wrought, that is the Finger of God.
3. God is the only Author & Efficient of Miracles. Men may be Moral Causes of them, by Prayer; as Elias, when he Prayed for Fire, &c. and for the restoring of the Dead Child's Life: Or when God useth them as such by whom he will show the Miracle; as Peter 〈…〉 in healing the Impotent Man: But H••si•al Causes they cannot be; No, not so much as Instrumental: Hence they deny it to themselves, and ascribe it to Christ, Acts 3.12, 13. Ye Ale• of Israel, why m•rvel ye at this? 〈…〉 look ye so earnest• 〈…〉 us, as though by our 〈…〉 power or •••iness, are had made this man to walk. The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our Fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus. And their being done in His Name, proves Him to be God. Whenever a Miracle is wro't, that is the Finger of God.