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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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(4.) THAT God Always performs what He hath spoken. What He saith, He will do, That he doth without fail: As there is Truth which consists in a Conformity between the Heart and Tongue, so there is a Truth appears in an Agreement between Words and Deeds: God not only intends to do it when he speaks it, but he stands by and pursues that declared Intention of his: There is Constancy appertains to Truth, and that is when one is not to be put by from what he hath said: Men may not say one thing, and intend another; and yet they may change their Mind and Repent of what they have said, and so go back from it, which is also a Defect in point of Truth: But neither is there any such thing with God; and therefore these two things are put together, Numb. 23.19. God is not a man that he should lie, neither the son of man that he should repent-hath he said, and shall be not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good? God is incapable of those things that make Men to break their Words, which they intended when they spake them, viz.
(4.) THAT God Always performs what He hath spoken. What He saith, He will do, That he doth without fail: As there is Truth which consists in a Conformity between the He•rt and Tongue, so there is a Truth appears in an Agreement between Words and Deeds: God not only intends to do it when he speaks it, but he stands by and pursues that declared Intention of his: There is Constancy appertains to Truth, and that is when one is not to be put by from what he hath said: Men may not say one thing, and intend another; and yet they may change their Mind and Repent of what they have said, and so go back from it, which is also a Defect in point of Truth: But neither is there any such thing with God; and therefore these two things are put together, Numb. 23.19. God is not a man that he should lie, neither the son of man that he should repent-hath he said, and shall be not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good? God is incapable of those things that make Men to break their Words, which they intended when they spake them, viz.