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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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1. LEADING to all it's Operations. The concurrence of the First Cause, is the first Cause of the activity of the Second; for in order of Causes, the first must move before the second can stir; the second depends upon the first, and therefore must be acted by it, Act. 17.28. In Him we move.
2. SUPERIOR to it. They are not co-ordinate Causes; drawing together, but the concurse of the first is above, and directive to the second. A co-ordinate Cause works of it self, and is equal in Operation •o that which joins with it. (As two Master workmen, equally undertaking a business;) such are not the Creature and God▪ a subordinate Cause depends upon its superior in respect of Operation, which is the place of all second Causes as they refer to the First: they are therefore called God's •and, Psal. 17.14.
2. SUPERIOUR to it. They are not co-ordinate Causes; drawing together, but the concurse of the first is above, and directive to the second. A co-ordinate Cause works of it self, and is equal in Operation •o that which joyns with it. (As two Master workmen, equally undertaking a business;) such are not the Creature and God▪ a subordinate Cause depends upon its superiour in respect of Operation, which is the place of all second Causes as they refer to the First: they are therefore called God's •and, Psal. 17.14.