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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 53 (Question 13 cont.)
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(2.) GOD's leaving of nan•• the fixed […] •f his will, was his suspending of his determining influences, ••i••chy […] wh•re been c•rf•rmed in his ••using good. Man had all the habits of sanctifying Grace put into him, consisting in spiritual knowledge, righteousness and holiness, sitting him to make a good choice; but these were not confirmed, so as to determine them to make such an actual choice, as the event proved, for if they had, he had never embraced the Temptation. And this was an act of divine Sovereignty.
(2.) GOD's leaving of nan•• the ficed 〈…〉 •f his will, was his suspending of his deter•ining influences, ••i••chy 〈…〉 wh•re been c•rf•rmed in his ••using good. Man had all the habits of sanctifying Grace put into him, corsilting in spiritual knowledge, righteousness and holiness, sitting him to make a good choice; but these were not confirmed, so as to determine them to make such an actual choice, as the event proved, for if they had, he had never embraced the Temptation. And this was an act of divine Sovereignty.