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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 32 (Question 7)
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IT is An Act of God's Will, most freely and […] determining in Himself, concerning the •••ecting of all Things. Here observe,
IT is An Act of God's Will, most freely and 〈…〉 determining in Himself, concerning the •••ecting of all Things. Here observe,
1. IT is an Act of God's Will; i. e. according to our Conception, 1 Pet. 3.17. tho' it be improper; For in God, the Faculty and Act are one. But it implies he hath an Intention: The will ••ts the Understanding on work, by intending a Thing which it will have that contrive ••d so the Will is the First Mo•er: As also a Determination, when the Way contrived by the Understanding is approved by the Will; That determines nothing, but leaves it to This, which •etting its Royal Signet to it makes it Authentic: For though God be Omniscient, yet he is not Omni•••ent; It is therefore called his Determinate Counsel, Acts 2.23.
1. IT is an Act of God's Will; i. e. according to our Conception, 1 Pet. 3.17. tho' it be improper; For in God, the Faculty and Act are one. But it implies he hath an Intention: The will ••ts the Understanding on work, by intending a Thing which it will have that contrive ••d so the Will is the First Mo•er: As also a Determination, when the Way contrived by the Understanding is approved by the Will; That determines nothing, but leaves it to This, which etting its Roal Signet to it makes it Authentick: For though God be Omniscient, yet he is not Omnient; It is therefore called his Determinate Counsel,