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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]
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AN EXPOSITION OF THE ASSEMBLY's SHORTER CATECHISM: IN Two Hundred a… › Sermon 47 (Question 11 cont.)
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SERMON XLVII.
WE have been considering of God's Governing Providence in general: It will not be amiss.
Secondly, TO take a more distinct account of the Kinds of it. Especially since so much of the Catechism is taken up about one of them. Now these Kinds of Government are Two, viz. Common & Special: the next Question introduceth the latter of these; we may therefore look upon the former under this. The Scripture gives us light for this Distribution: As the whole World is Gods Kingdom, so there are some common Laws respecting the Realm in General, and others which are particular to some Corporations. The Reason of the Distribution is this; there are two sorts of Creatures some are Irrational, others Rational: Among Second Causes, there are some that work by Nature, others by Counsel: both these being made for Gods Glory, must serve to this End; and so must have a Rule to guide them thereunto: And a Government exercised over them that they may so be. Hence a Double Gubernation, the one leading of Natural, the other Rational Agents to their Ends.
Secondly, TO take a more distinct account of the Kinds of it. Especially since so much of the Catechism is taken up about one of them. Now these Kinds of Government are Two, viz. Common & Special: the next Question introduceth the latter of these; we may therefore look upon the former under this. The Scripture gives us light for this Distribution: As the whole World is Gods Kingdom, so there are some common Laws respecting the Realm in General, and others which are particular to some Corporations. The Reason of the Distribution is this; there are two sorts of Creatures some are Irrational, others Rational: Among Second Causes, there are some that work by Nature, others by Counsel: both these being made for Gods Glory, must serve to this End; and so must have a Rule to guide them thereunto: And a Government exercised over them that they may so be. Hence a Double Gubernation, the one leading of Natural, the other Rational Agents to their Ends.