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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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(5.) THAT God doth all things Exactly, as he hath spoken. The Execution is not varied from the Expression: He doth not come short […] his Word, in the Performance: We have Solomon acknowledging of this, 1 King. 8.56. Blesse• be the Lord, that hath given rest unto his people Israel, according to all that he promised: the• hath not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by the hand of Moses his servant. And this is to be observed not only as to the Substance, but also the very Circumstances of things; and this both in Predictions, Promises, ⟨p. 93⟩and Threatenings: If we shall in particular take notice of the Predictions concerning Christ; How many things, which may to us look like minute Circumstances, and yet in the Gospel we shall find manifold references to the Old Testament in such things as these, to certify us, how exactly God is careful in performing the Truth of his Word; and how he orders all things so as to bring it about: God's Promise to Abraham was not only about the Thing, but the Time too; and see what a Remark Moses makes upon it, Exod. 12.41. And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred & thirty years, even the self-same day it came to pass, that all the •olts of the Lord went out from the land of Egypt. If it be here Objected, that […] Prophesied Nineveh's Destruction in Forty Days, which yet was adjourned. Forty Years; It may readily be answered that Forty Prophetical Days, which are Years, might be intended, tho' Jo••h understood it not; or the Threatening might be Co• ••••••, and the general Repentance and Reformation it put them upon might be a lengthening out of their Tranquillity; which neither altered God's Purpose, not impaired the Truth of his Word.
(5.) THAT God doth all things Exactly, as he hath spoken. The Execution is not varied from the Expression: He doth not come short 〈…〉 his Word, in the Performance: We have Solomon acknowledging of this,