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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 51 (Question 13 cont.)
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2. CONCERNING the […] of God about this Affair; this also, though it was concerted in the tall of man, yet rather is to be called an Antecedent, then a Cause of it; tho' foolish man be ready to cry out, i• […] will? Here take these •••ertions.
2. CONCERNING the 〈…〉 of God about this Affair; this also, though it was concerted in the tall of man, yet rather is to be called an Antecedent, then a Cause of it; tho' foolish man be ready to cry out, i• 〈…〉 will? Here take these •••ertions.
(1.) THAT God […] certainly from all Eternity […] the fall of man. That He foreknew the •••arity of it is undeniable, for he laid in for a remedy against the evil effects of it, respecting his elect, •aving […] the• in Christ before the […] •f […] word, Eph. 1.4. which fore-knowledge could have •o ground but in his purpose; the thing being in it self contingent: this was o•e of these […] by which God would a••ra•ce the glory of his justice and his grace in man. As there fore mans apostasy did not fall out be••des God's fore s•ght, so neither besides his holy purpose; had not be decreed it, it had never been.