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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 30 (Question 5)
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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.
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 withold 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.
7. THE True God can give Eternal Life to his Friends and Favourites, in spite of Men and Devils. He is a poor God who can only bestow temporary Favours on such whom he hath a delight to honour: Our God is not so; He gives Eternal Life, an Everlasting Kingdom, an Infinite Glory; and he gives his People leave to challenge all the World to separate them from this Love; Rom 8.38, 39. There is None that is able to pluck them out of his Hand: This is the God whom we are to acknowledge for Ours, and no other.
7. THE True God can give Eternal Life to his Friends and Favourites, in spite of Men and Devils. He is a poor God who can only bestow temporary Favours on such whom he hath a delight to honour: Our God is not so; He gives Eternal Life, an Everlasting Kingdom, an Infinite Glory; and he gives his People leave to challenge all the World to seperate them from this Love; Rom 8.38, 39. There is None that is able to pluck them out of his Hand: This is the God whom we are to acknowledge for Ours, and no other.