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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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3. IT is with Himself: For in that Eternity there was no other to consult with but Himself; nor needed there any, He comprising all Wisdom in Himself: All second Beings were • be the Product of this Counsel, and ther• none of them could be at it.
3. IT is with Himself: For in that Eternity there was no other to consult with but Himself; nor needed there any, He comprizing all Wisdom in Himself: All second Beings were • be the Product of this Counsel, and ther• none of them could be at it.
4. IT was concerning the Best Way of effecting his Designs. In all Counsels there is an End • Design propounded; and that which is the Question is, How this may be Best brought about? So that the Nature of Counsel properly, is to be employed about the Means, tho' always with an Eye or respect to the End. God hath many Ways in which he could have brought about his Ends; but his Wisdom sets it self • work, to contrive that which may Best […] them.
4. IT was concerning the Best Way of effecting his Designs. In all Counsels there is an End • Design propounded; and that which is the Question is, How this may be Best brought about? So that the Nature of Counsel properly, is to be employed about the Means, tho' always with an Eye or respect to the End. God hath many Ways in which he could have brought about his Ends; but his Wisdom sets it self • work, to contrive that which may Best 〈…〉 them.