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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. IT tells us that there is an Order in the World. We are ready to cry out of Confusion and Disorder, and it may be a great truth, in respect of the Actions of the Creature compared with the Law of the Creator, or the Moral Law; the Creature may greatly swer•e from that: but we must distinguish between the order of the Decree, & the order of the Command. and if we refer unto the Decree of God, all things fall our according to the Ordination of that; and thus the Wisdom of the First […] shines forth in the very folly of the Second If God rules & guides all the Actions of ass•• ings to His own holy Ends, they cannot but he guided according to an unerring Rule of •oo•, which, his Providence Eyes in all the •••• sh•es of the Creatures; and the Eye of […] sees beauty in all, even there where humane Reason ••dgeth there is nothing but confusion. Man was not of the counsel with God when he established His Decrees; and hence in this life he ca••or follow Him in the several passages of His Execution thereof, but is forced to acknowledge His paths to be in the deep. Rom. 11.33, 34. O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom & knowledge of God! •ow unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out! For who hath known the mind of the Lord, or […] hath been his counsellor? The way of God's Government is a profound Sea, we cannot trace or find it out. Eccl. 8.17. Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out r•• work that is done under the sun: because though a […] labour to seek it out, yet he shall not find it you ••rther, though'd wise man think to know it▪ you shall be not be able to find it. But still this we must ever conclude, that if God sets at he•m, He is an exact Steers-Man.