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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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5. THIS Co-operation of God is according to the Creatures Principles, and its manner of Operation, It is according to its Principles: God having in Creation given, and in Conservation upholding of these Principles; such as of burning in fire, &c. He co-operates with them, and keeps them working in their own kind. And according to their manner of working. There are some Natural Causes, and some, Free Causes▪ He doth not make merely Natural Causes to act freely, or by counsel; nor yet doth He say any compulsion or constraint upon free Agents; but all second Cau•es work like themselves. The Sun shineth Naturally, and yet He makes it to shine, (Matt. 5.45.) Reasonable Beings act ••eely, and according to their Voluntary Choice and yet He also works with them, Josh. 11.20. For it was of the Lord to harden their hearts, and that they should come against Israel in hatte•, that he might destroy them utterly — God turns no second Cause, ordinarily, out of its own Bias, except it be in Miracles. As when Balaam's Ass reproved the Madness of the Prophet, and such like; and in Monstrous Productions, in which also he hath a glorious design.
5. THIS Co-operation of God is according to the Creatures Principles, and its manner of Operation, It is according to its Principles: God having in Creation given, and in Conservation upholding of these Principles; such as of burning in fire, &c. He co-operates with them, and keeps them working in their own kind. And according to their manner of working. There are some Natural Causes, and some, Free Causes▪ He doth not make meerly Natural Causes to act freely, or by counsel; nor yet doth He say any compulsion or constraint upon free Agents; but all second Cau•es work like themselves. The Sun shineth Naturally, and yet He makes it to shine, (Matt. 5.45.) Reasonable Beings act ••eely, and according to their Voluntary Choise and yet He also works with them,