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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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IT is His Eternal Deliberation with Himself, concerning the Best Way of effecting his own Designs.
1. IT is a Deliberation: This is after the Manner of Men; who in Consulting do Deliberate about Matters: And tho' God knew from Eternity, and at first Sight, what was Best, yet is He brought in Deliberating, Gen. 1.26. And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness, &c.
2. IT is an Eternal Deliberation: For his Decrees are Eternal Projects, Acts 15.18. known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world. 1. Cor. 2.7. But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the world unto our glory. These were past before Time had any Existence.