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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]
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AN EXPOSITION OF THE ASSEMBLY's SHORTER CATECHISM: IN Two Hundred a… › Sermon 29 (Question 4 cont.)
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3. THAT this Will of his is determinate, fixed, immutable: the Decree is sometimes called his Word• for what he hath, as it were said in himself, that he will do; and herein is the Truth of this Word, that he stands to his own Purposes, and never alters them, Job 23.13. But it is in […] mind, and […] can turn him? and what his […] desireth, ever that he doeth. God's Decrees are not Conditional but Absolute: He hath indeed Decreed Conditions or Connections between things; but he hath not Connected any dependent undetermined Conditions between things, but he hath fixed them: the Conditions of things are but Me••e in his Decrees, and only intend, that he will bring about such Ends, by such Means; and having once purposed, he never varies: He engageth to himself, that thus he will do, and he stands to his Word: But of this more in the Doctrine of the Decree.
3. THAT this Will of his is determinate, fixed, immutable: the Decree is sometimes called his Word• for what he hath, as it were said in himself, that he will do; and herein is the Truth of this Word, that he stands to his own Purposes, and never alters them, Job 23.13. But it is in 〈…〉 mind, and 〈…〉 can turn him? and what his 〈…〉 desireth, ever that he doeth. God's Decrees are not Conditional but Absolute: He hath indeed Decreed Conditions or Connexions between things; but he hath not Connected any dependent undetermined Conditions between things, but he hath fixed them: the Conditions of things are but Me••e in his Decrees, and only intend, that he will bring about such Ends, by such Means; and having once purposed, he never varies: He engageth to himself, that thus he will do, and he stands to his Word: But of this more in the Doctrine of the Decree.