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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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2. THIS Will of God is most Fr•• & Sovereign God acted in the Decree with the greatest Liberty: He acted not by Necessity; For there is no Dependence of the Being of God upon that of the Creature: He might have done as well without those that be, as without those: Possible […], that shall never be: Nor hath He any Obligation to the Creature, which He willed to •: If God had never willed the Creature to be, He had not injured it in the least; being no otherwise obliged than as he hath […] Himself, Rom. 11.34, 35.—Or who hath […] his counsellor? Or who hath first given to […] — And if he had not been •r•e; there had been no room for Counsel: Necessary Things must be, and therefore need no Deliberation […] them.
2. THIS Will of God is most Fr•• & Sovereign God acted in the Decree with the greatest Liberty: He acted not by Necessity; For there is no Dependance of the Being of God upon that of the Creature: He might have done as well without those that be, as without those: Possible 〈…〉, that shall never be: Nor hath He any Obligation to the Creature, which He willed to •: If God had never willed the Creature to be, He had not injured it in the least; being no otherwise obliged than as he hath 〈…〉 Himself, Rom. 11.34, 35.—Or who hath 〈…〉 his counseller? Or who hath first given to 〈…〉 — And if he had not been •r•e; there had been no room for Counsel: Necessary Things must be, and therefore need no Deliberation 〈…〉 them.