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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 32 (Question 7)
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SERMON XXXII.
QUESTION VII. WHAT are the DECREES of GOD? ANSWER. THE Decrees of God are his ETERNAL PURPOSE, according to the Counsel of his Will, whereby for his own Glory, He hath Fore-ordained whatsoever […] to pass.
QUESTION VII. WHAT are the DECREES of GOD? ANSWER. THE Decrees of God are his ETERNAL PURPOSE, according to the Counsel of his Will, whereby for his own Glory, He hath Fore-ordained whatsoever 〈…〉 to pass.
OUR Catechism having given an Account of God's All-sufficiency, appearing in his Essence and Subsistences; is now passing over to the Consideration of his All-efficiency; And for an Introduction hereinto, gives us a View of the Decree: And here indeed is the true and proper Place for the Doctrine of it to be Methodically handled; because we look upon God as a Rational or Intelligent Agent, and Wise Artificer, who will have an Idea of his Works before him: • therefore God works in Time, we presuppose that he Purposed so to do before Time. Our Catechism puts a Plural Word upon this Act of God, calling it his Decrees; not with respect to God Decreeing, for in Him it is one Eternal Act, as we may hear; but with reference to the Things Decreed, which are man fold and uncountable by us We may he•e in the First place Consider the Evidence, that there is such a Decree, and then Enquire into the Nature of it, as the Word of God hath given us Light to discover it.