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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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2. BY Influence: I mean by the Commanding of His Blessing upon the Provision which He hath thus made for, and brought unto them, so as that it doth effectually reach the End it is appointed for. As there is a Creating Wisdom of God appears in His putting the Virtue into Creatures suited to the End and Use they were designed for; so His Providence further Works in causing the Creature to Exert the Virtue which is in it, and enabling all the Organs of Nutrition to perform their Functions, so as to derive that Virtue for the Preservation of the Subject. Hence we read, Matth. 4.4. Man ••al• not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth at of the month of God. And see the Expression, Isa. 3.1 Behold, the Lord, the Lord of costs […] take away from Jerusalem, and from Juda•, the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water. There is bread and there is the Staff of it. No Being can do us any Good further than He Influenceth it: There is a Virtue which goes from Him, that makes the Creature to Live by it. An Appent•te to Eat, is as much from God, as the Food it self that is suited to it; and that it tur•s to Nutriment, and not to Putrefaction, is of His Care for us: He gives us Clothes and makes them to Warm us.
2. BY Influence: I mean by the Commanding of His Blessing upon the Provision which He hath thus made for, and brought unto them, so as that it doth effectually reach the End it is appointed for. As there is a Creating Wisdom of God appears in His putting the Vertue into Creatures suited to the End and Use they were designed for; so His Provi•ence further Works in causing the Creature to Exert the Vertue which is in it, and enabling all the Organs of Nutrition to perform their Functions, so as to derive that Vertue for the Preservation of the Subject. Hence we read, Matth. 4.4. Man ••al• not live by bread alone, but by every word that prceedeth at of the month of God. And see the Expression,