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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 30 (Question 5)
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4. THE True God can See all our W••• and Hear all our Cries: It is a vain thing to • upon a God that hath neither Seeing nor Hearing ⟨p. 97⟩Psal. 135.15, 16, 17. The idols of the heathen are silver and gold, the work of mens hands. They have mouths, but they speak not; eyes have they, but they see not. They have ears, but they hear not; neither is there any breath in their mouths. But such is not this God whom we are called upon to Worship & Serve; Psal. 34.15, 17. The eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, & his ears are open unto their cry. The righteous cry, and the Lord heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles. He is one that sees all their secret Necessities, knows all the close Contrivances of Hell against them, Hears their groans, and the very Desires of their Hearts: This is a God to be trusted in.
THE True God can afford us Help every where, and in every Case, and all his People at once. He is not afar off, but a Present help: Psal. 46.1. God is our refuge & strength, a very present help in trouble. He is not like Baal, otherwise occupied, so as he cannot tend us; He is not only a God of the Hills, but of the Valleys too: He can help all and every where at the same time.
6. THE True God hath all second Causes at his Command. He can order and dispose them as he sees meet. He hath no Dependence upon them, but they are entirely subordinate to Him: He can give Rain, and he can withhold it; open or shut the Bottles of Heaven at his Pleasure; can turn the Hearts of Men for or against us; and they all wait for his Word, and move at his Bidding.