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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 48 (Question 12)
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WE have been considering of God's common Government, by which He leads Natural Agents to their End. It follows,
II. THAT we proceed to Discourse about His special Government, which respects Rational Agents, and the way in which God conducts them to their End. The Question under consideration points us to that which is the foundation of this Government respecting Man, and unto which all the After Transactions mentioned in the former part of the Catechism do refer; and therefore calls for a more exact Explication: And to make way then to a clear Inspection into it, something may be premised,
II. THAT we proceed to Discourse about His special Government, which respects Rational Agents, and the way in which God conducts them to their End. The Question under consideration points us to that which is the foundation of this Government respecting Man, and unto which all the After Transactions mentioned in the former part of the C•techism do refer; and therefore calls for a more exact Explication: And to make way then to a clear Inspection into it, something may be premised,
First, CONCERNING the General Nature of Special Government; and it may admit of this Description.