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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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(5.) THE Preservation of all things is an Act of Divine Omnipotency. Hence in the Description it is called that […] He upholds them in the Hand of His Power. And indeed what less than an Increated Power can be acknowledged in it, by those who seriously consider and ponder it? When we look upon this great World, and the innumerable Beings that are contained in it, and consider what an absolute Dependence these all have upon God, and how ••i•t•ess they are all of them in themselves, to that if they were not every moment underpropped and born up they would immediately be Annihilated; how strong an Hand must we conceive that must be, which is always under them and holds them up, and neither faints not is weary under such a weight? And therefore the Apostle takes notice of this […] as shining out eminently in this respect; Heb. 1.3. […] pholding all things by the […] of his power. This Doctrine then affords as precious Matter of Contemplation, and there are several Useful, Practical Instructions that we may draw from it. To •••e Four.
(5.) THE Preservation of all things is an Act of Divine O•nipotency. Hence in the Description it is called that 〈…〉 He up•o•ds them in the Hand of His Power. And indeed what less than an Increated Power can be acknowledged in it, by those who seriously consider and ponder it? When we look upon this great World, and the innumerable Beings that are contained in it, and consider what an absolute Dependance these all have upon God, and how ••i•t•ess they are all of them in themselves, to that if they were not every moment underpropt and born up they would immediately be Annihilated; how strong an Hand must we conceive that must be, which is always under them and holds them up, and neither faints not is weary under such a weight? And therefore the Apostle takes notice of this 〈…〉 as shining out eminently in this respect;