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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 22 (Question 4 cont.)
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for God is with us: speaks his Power to be insuperable. For this reason he suffers them to prosper, and arrive at the height of Success. Pride and self-Confidence, raiseth them in his Providence to their height; that he may give a terrible instance of this Attribute in their destruction, see, Exod. 9.16. And in very deed for this cause have I raised thee up, for to show in thee my power; and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth. 7. WHEN the Scripture speaks of some things, which it saith God cannot do, it is no way contradictory to this Attribute of his OMNIPOTENCY; but it doth rather confirm us in the belief of it. Here therefore we are to consider the things wherein such Assertions are laid down; and we shall readily see a satisfying reason for them: let these Rules then be here observed on this account.
for God is with us: speaks his Power to be insuperable. For this reason he suffers them to prosper, and arrive at the height of Success. Pride and self-Confidence, raiseth them in his Providence to their height; that he may give a terrible instance of this Attribute in their destruction, see, Exod. 9.16. And in very deed for this cause have I raised thee up, for to shew in thee my power; and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth. 7. WHEN the Scripture speaks of some things, which it saith God cannot do, it is no way contradictory to this Attribute of his OMNIPOTENCY; but it doth rather confirm us in the belief of it. Here therefore we are to consider the things wherein such Assertions are laid down; and we shall readily see a satisfying reason for them: let these Rules then be here observed on this account.
1. THERE are some things done by Men which arise from, and argue imperfection in them. These things then God cannot do, not for want of Power, but by reason of Power. When we read, that God cannot lye, it argues no weakness in him, but his Infinite Perfection. God therefore cannot swerve from his own Rules, or cross his own Nature, who is a God of Holiness and Truth: Men through' weakness can swerve from the Rule; Sin is therefore called a falling short,