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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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3. DIVINES do from Scripture observe a t•••fold Power ascribed to God, viz.
3. DIVINES do from Scripture observe a t•••fold Power escribed to God, viz.
1. AN ••••••ted & absolute Power, by virtue of which he can do all possible things, even such things as he never actually doth: of this Power it is that we read, Matth. 3.9. —God is able of these st•nes to raise up ob•laren unto Abra•••.
1. AN ••••••ted & absolute Power, by vertue of which he can do all possible things, even such things as he never actually doth: of this Power it is that we read, Matth. 3.9. —God is able of these st•nes to raise up ob•laren unto Abra•••.
2. AN Ordinate Power, which is not a Power different from the former, but the former considered, as God hath pleased to set limits […] bounds to it by the Decree, with respect to his exerting of it in his works of Efficiency. It is certain that he hath by an Eternal purpose, determined in himself whatsoever shall be done in time; and this did unalterably fix the limits between things merely possible, and things future: and it is with respect to this limitation, that it is sometimes said in Scripture, that God could not do some things. Thus we read that God could not destroy Sodom till Lot was out of it: that Christ could not do many miracles in his own Country, because of their Unbeies, &c. Not that his Arm was shortened in these respects, but because his purpose, and sometimes his p mice had tied his hands; his Will was otherwise, and he pursues that in all he doth,