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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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5. MIRACLES have been usually wrought by God for Signs. They are sensible Signs: The working of them, if we consult the Scripture, was on purpose to be an uncontrollable Conviction of something to Men: Sometimes to Ratify His Promises, Exod. 4. beg. Sometimes to convince them of Apostasy, 1 Kings 13.3, 4, 5. Sometimes to establish a Doctrine, as the Miracles wrought by Christ and his Apostles. God was not wont to Work Miracles merely for themselves, but for some Spiritual End, as every where we may observe in Scripture.
5. MIRACLES have been usually wrought by God for Signs. They are sensible Signs: The working of them, if we consult the Scripture, was on purpose to be an uncontrolable Conviction of something to Men: Sometimes to Ratify His Promises, Exod. 4. beg. Sometimes to convince them of Apostacy, 1 Kings 13.3, 4, 5. Sometimes to establish a Doctrine, as the Miracles wrought by Christ and his Apostles. God was not wont to Work Miracles meerly for themselves, but for some Spiritual End, as every where we may observe in Scripture.
USE 1. HENCE then, Satan by himself, […] Instruments, can Work no Miracle: His […] are called, Lying Wonders, 2 Th•s. 2.9. […] knows the Nature of things better than […] do, and can therefore apply them to Operations that we are not able to see into, so as […] see the Reason of the Connection between the Causes and Effects whence we are astonish […] them; but his Signs are usually Lying; […] mere Impostures, & juggling Tricks, that have […] Reality in them, but a deception of our Senses.
USE 1. HENCE then, Satan by himself, 〈…〉 Instruments, can Work no Miracle: His are called, Lying Wonders, 2 Ths. 2.9. knows the Nature of things better than do, and can therefore apply them to Operations that we are not able to see into, so as see the Reason of the Connection between the Causes and Effects whence we are astonish them; but his Signs are usually Lying; meer Impostures, & jugling Tricks, that have Reality in them, but a deception of our Senses.