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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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3. HENCE we are to acknowledge God in all our Actions. In Prov. 20.12. it is said, not only the Eye & Ear, but the seeing Eye, &c. i. e. the Faculty with the Operation, as well as the Organ. That we have Eyes, Ears, and all the Organs of Sense and Reason, we owe it to God, and not only so, but that these perform their Functions, and execute their Offices, He deserves the acknowledgement of this also. There are who have Eyes, and see not, if God but withdraws his Concurse. (2. King. 6.18, 19, 20.) There are many Naturals born: You must not suppose that your Eyes and Ears, and Tongues are your own, as if you could see, &c. when you please.
3. HENCE we are to acknowledge God in all our Actions. In Prov. 20.12. it is said, not only the Eye & Ear, but the seeing Eye, &c. i. e. the Faculty with the Operation, as well as the Organ. That we have Eyes, Ears, and all the Organs of Sense and Reason, we owe it to God, and not only so, but that these perform their Functions, and execute their Offices, He deserves the acknowledgment of this also. There are who have Eyes, and see not, if God but withdraws his Concurse. (2. King. 6.18, 19, 20.) There are many Naturals born: You must not suppose that your Eyes and Ears, and Tongues are your own, as if you could see, &c. when you please.
4. IT tells us whom we must go to, to work all our works in us and for us, viz. to God: we must ask His direction, and beg of Him his guidance. When the Apostle calls us to work, he tells us who must co-work with us, Phil. 2.12, 13. Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God which worketh in you, both to will and to do—. In every business, whether Civil or Religious, that God calls us unto, it concerns […] to look to Him for his Assistance; for if He lead not, what can we do,