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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 46 (Question 11 cont.)
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4. THAT which Divine Government employs it self about is, to guide the Creature to its End. He carries on all Beings to their End, i• so rules them as that none misseth it. There is a peculiar Subordinate end, and there is an Universal, general and last end; the Creature may miss the former, but not the latter; There in the end of the Precept, and the end of the D•cr••, Reasonable Creatures, as will afterwards were fully appear, may lose the former, but not the latter. God's Glory is his own last End, which he will always attain by every Second Being, in such a way as shall exactly answer his all-wise purpose about it. And from this no Creature is able to withdraw it self, but when is most sets it self against it, if then serves to it. ••n. 50.20. Ye thought evil against me; but God means it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this […] to save much people alive. For the order of Divine Government is certain, indissoluble, unchangeable.
4. THAT which Divine Government employs it self about is, to guide the Creature to its End. He carries on all Beings to their End, i• so rules them as that none misseth it. There is a peculiar Subordinate end, and there is an Universal, general and last end; the Creature may miss the former, but not the latter; There in the end of the Precept, and the end of the D•cr••, Reasonable Creatures, as will afterwards were fully appear, may lose the former, but not the latter. God's Glory is his own last End, which he will always attain by every Second Being, in such a way as shall exactly answer his alwise purpose about it. And from this no Creature is able to withdraw it self, but when is most sets it self against it, if then serves to it. ••n. 50.20. Ye thought evil against me; but God means it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this 〈…〉 to save much people alive. For the order of Divine Government is certain, indissoluble, unchangeable.