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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 15 (Question 4 cont.)
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SERMON XV.
IV. THOSE Back Parts of God, in which he discovers himself to us, are his ••ffi•iency, and his Efficiency. The small Portion of him that may be known by the Creature, may be referred to these two heads; What he is, and what he doth: what he is able to do, and what he is pleased to do; that he is all, and that he doth all. These two are the main pillars, on which the weight of our Faith lies, and by the which it is supported. The latter bids us to trust in him alone; the former encourageth us to trust in him at all times, and in all cases.
V. GOD's Sufficiency (or his All-sufficiency) is his Divine Fullness, by virtue whereof he hath enough in himself, to answer all his own ends. A man is then said to be self-sufficient, when he hath not only enough for himself personally, but for all them too that have their dependence upon him; when he is able to live upon his own, without being beholding to others, and maintain his post, and do all that belongs to him, and his estate will bear it out without impairing the principal. Hence we make our guesses at God's All-sufficiency, by conceiving him to be such a Being, but after a more transcendent manner. In the description two things may be observed.