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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 29 (Question 4 cont.)
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TRUTH is God, Fulfilling of all his Will, according to his Word. There is an exact harmony between his Will, his Word, and his Performance, and in this it appears that God agrees with himself, and that is his Truth. For a brief ••••ring up of the Doctrine of this Attribute, let these things be observed,
(1.) THAT God's Will hath determinately, ••••ly, unchangeably, purposed what he will do. The Scripture ascribes unto God a Will; sometimes under the n•tion of a Faculty, sometimes of an Act, and in this latter respect, it refers it sometimes to his Purposes, and sometimes to his […]; is the former respect it is more ge•••sly, and here to be understood: We are here to consider,
(1.) THAT God's Will hath determinately, ••••ly, unchangeably, purposed what he will do. The Scripture ascribes unto God a Will; sometimes under the n•tion of a Faculty, sometimes of an Act, and in this latter respect, it refers it sometimes to his Purposes, and sometimes to his 〈…〉; is the former respect it is more ge•••sly, and here to be understood: We are here to consider,
1. THAT God hath Decreed or fore determined all his Works of Efficiency; so that what •••es to pass in Time, is no other but what he had appointed before all Time, in the days of Eity; and for this very reason all God's […] are said the to be known to him,