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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]
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AN EXPOSITION OF THE ASSEMBLY's SHORTER CATECHISM: IN Two Hundred a… › Sermon 12 (Question 4)
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2. WHAT shall we say to those extraordinary Effects in Providence, which do sometimes discover themselves in the world? Such as out do the laws of nature, or do invert the common order and course of things; needs must they speak convincingly, that there is one who is above these Laws, holds a superintendency over them, and keeps a liberty in his hands of dispensing or suspending them at pleasure When the Sun stood still in the firmament, and moved not for the space of a day, (Josh. 10.12, 13.) When it went ten degrees backward, (Isa. 38.8.) When the waters of the red sea rose on heaps, and made a way for Israel to pass through, ⟨p. 39⟩(Exod. 14.27, 28.) when the Sun was Eclipsed for three hours together, at the time of full Moon. (Mat. 27.45.) what do such things speak, but that there is a God that is above Nature, and rules over it with power? Nature it self doth nothing against its own Rules, nor divides it self against its ordinary way of working, but keeps the beaten road. There is therefore a God over all, to […] And we must either deny such things to have been, against the evidence of unquestionable witnesses, or we must needs infer from them, Certainly there is a God.
2. WHAT shall we say to those extraordinary Effects in Providence, which do sometimes discover themselves in the world? Such as out do the laws of nature, or do invert the common order and course of things; needs must they speak convincingly, that there is one who is above these Laws, holds a superintendency over them, and keeps a liberty in his hands of dispensing or suspending them at pleasure When the Sun stood still in the firmament, and moved not for the space of a day, (Josh. 10.12, 13.) When it went ten degrees backward, (Isa. 38.8.) When the waters of the red sea rose on heaps, and made a way for Israel to pass through,