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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.) HENCE m•n's •ell was […] •i•ble with respect to the Decrees. i. e. the event could he no other in regard of that. Either the purpose of God must be void, or else man most fall; but the counsel of the Lord shall stand; so that there was a necessity of the event, because God had so determined; and there is no Liberty granted to man, to cavil at or quarrel with divine decrees. See how the Apostle answers such daring objections, Rom. 9.1•, •0. That will then say unto me, why doth •e yet •ind f••h? For wh• hath resi•ted his will? Nay •ut O man, who art th•• […] repliest against God? shall the thing ser•ed say to […] ser•ed it▪ why hast th•• made […] thus?
(2.) HENCE m•n's •ell was 〈…〉 •i•ble with respect to the Decres. i. e. the event could he no other in regard of that. Either the purpose of God must be void, or else man most fall; but the counsel of the Lord shall stand; so that there was a necessity of the event, because God had so determined; and there is no Liberty granted to man, to cavil at or quarrel with divine decrees. See how the Apostle answers such daring objections,