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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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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 E••ity; and for this very reason all God's […] are said the• to be known to him, Acts 15.18. Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world. And how should he know them antecedently, but because he had Decreed them?
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 E••ity; and for this very reason all God's 〈…〉 are said the• to be known to him, Acts 15.18. Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world. And how should he know them antecedently, but because he had Decreed them?
2. THAT this Decree is an Act of his Will. I• God we conceive some Acts to be Immanent, others Transient; to the former belongs his Decree, which is nothing else but his Will as it respects the Works of Efficiency; and this is an Eternal Act, in which he hath resolved with Himself what to do, and there is nothing comes to pass, which was not first in this Purpose; Hence that, Eph. 1.11. In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will. i. e. He took counsel of no other but his own Will.