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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 47 (Question 11 cont.)
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USE, •. LEARN hence, that our only […] good by the Creature, is to be faithful in Serving God. The Creature is not to be trusted in by us, for it is not at its own dispose, it cannot help and do for us at its own pleasure; the exertion of the Virtue that is in it for our good is from God: He is the Ruler of all; we must therefore go to Him for all we want, Isai. 45.11. — Concerning the work of my hands command ye me. If He be against us, Second Causes cannot be for us, for they all obey His word of command: if He will, He Seals them up; He gives them, or withholds them at pleasure; nor can out Industry forestall his Providence; and He hath promised them only to those that serve Him uprightly, and threatens to take them away from such as disobey Him, Deut. 1•.13 to 18. Let us not think to pros•et by Evil doing.
USE, •. LEARN hence, that our only 〈…〉 good by the Creature, is to be faithful in Serving God. The Creature is not to be trusted in by us, for it is not at its own dispose, it cannot help and do for us at its own pleasure; the exertion of the Vertue that is in it for our good is from God: He is the Ruler of all; we must therefore go to Him for all we want, Isai. 45.11. — Concerning the work of my hands command ye me. If He be against us, Second Causes cannot be for us, for they all obey His word of command: if He will, He Seals them up; He gives them, or witholds them at pleasure; nor can out Industry forestall his Providence; and He hath promised them only to those that serve Him uprightly, and threatens to take them away from such as disobey Him, Deut. 1•.13 to 18. Let us not think to pros•et by Evil doing.