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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 45 (Question 11 cont.)
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3. TO Universal Beings or Kinds. He keeps up all the several sorts of Beings which He made at the First; so as that there is no one of them that ever was, but still is in the World; and shall be as long as the World stands, notwithstanding all the Hazards which some of them do run of being utterly Extinct: And the Species world easily be lost and no• He take Care of it by a wonderful Providence.
4. TO Singular & Individual Beings. These He also looks after, and continues their Being to them by His Providence, during such a Time and Season as He sees meet. He hath their Times in His Hand, and He hath bounded them; but still He keeps their Matter and Form together, and preserves their Natures and Operations so long as till His Good Pleasure hath Determined that they shall cease to be; until they have served their appointed Time, and His Providence for the attaining of that End which He intended them for, and then they are Dissolved.
(3.) THE Way in which God continues His Creatures in Being & Action is Various. And here we may take notice of those Two that are most observable:
(3.) THE Way in which God continues His Creatures in Being & Action is Varions. And here we may take notice of those Two that are most observable: