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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. DETERMINING the Action in respect of the Event. And hence it is said to guide, and direct the Being. The Eternal Decree of God, having sixth & determined concerning what shall be acted and all the several circumstances of th• Creatures Operations, (as hath formerly been evidenced;) hence by His Active Providence▪ He must determine them. Natural Agents are blind, and see nothing before them, but act as they are acted, and therefore are necessarily determined by Divine Providence Job 35.11. Who reacheth us more than the beasts of the earth. That Rational Agents are also thus determined appears, because else there would not be an Absolute […] of the Second Cause to the First, and so God must be frustrated by the Creature in respect of his Decree: He therefore makes them to do what they do not mean, Isal. 10.•7. I send him: He meaneth not so. They fulfil his determinate counsel Act. 4.27, 28. Against thy holy child Jesus, — Herod, Pou•ius Pilate, with the Gentiles and people of Israel were gathered together, to do whatsoever thy counsel hath determined.
4. DETERMINING the Action in respect of the Event. And hence it is said to guide, and direct the Being. The Eternal Decree of God, having fixt & determined concerning what shall be acted and all the several circumstanc•s of th• Creatures Operations, (as hath formerly been evidenced;) hence by His Active Providence▪ He must determine them. Natural Agents are blind, and see nothing before them, but act as they are acted, and therefore are necessarily determined by Divine Providence Job 35.11. Who reacheth us more than the beasts of the earth. That Rational Agents are also thus determined appears, because else there would not be an Absolute 〈…〉 of the Second Cause to the First, and so God must be frustrated by the Creature in respect of his Decree: He therefore makes them to do what they do not mean, Isal. 10.7. I send him: He meaneth not so. They fulfill his determinate counsel