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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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(3.) THAT God speaks Nothing but what he hath purposed. There is Truth in his Word; and this Truth is the exact Agreement which there is between his Counsels and his Declarations: He doth not say one thing and intend another: He speaks nothing rashly, undeliberately, unknowingly. There are Two Reasons of Men's falling short of Truth in what they say; but God is far from both of these:
(3.) THAT God speaks Nothing but what he hath purposed. There is Truth in his Word; and this Truth is the exact Agreement which there is between his Counsels and his Declarations: He doth not say one thing and intend another: He speaks nothing rashly, undeliberately, unknowingly. There are Two Reasons of Men's fal••ng short of Truth in what they say; but God is far from both of these:
1. IGNORANCE or Inadvertency. Men often mistake, and think of things otherwise than they are, and yet persuade themselves they are […] the right; and this ariseth from a want of Knowledge or Deliberation: But thus He cannot utter a Falsehood or Error, because of his Infinite all Knowledge: He knows his own Thoughts; and in knowing them, he knows every thing.
1. IGNORANCE or Inadvertency. Men often mistake, and think of things otherwise than they are, and yet persuade themselves they are 〈…〉 the right; and this ariseth from a want of Knowledge or Deliberation: But thus He cannot utter a Falshood or Error, because of his Infinite all Knowledge: He knows his own Thoughts; and in knowing them, he knows every thing.
2. DECEITFULNESS, or a lying Disposition: Many speak with a Purpose to deceive others, and to impose things that are not true, upon their Credit; and there is a root of this perverse Disposition in all Men by Nature: But there is no such thing with God: Hence the Opposition in,