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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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4. HENCE this Will of God, is the First, Cause of all Things. If the Reason of the Being of Things be followed up to the Top, we must find it in the Decree; and in that we shall find them to have been determined by God's Will; Instrumental and […] Causes there may be many, which he Wills to improve in the Execution of his Decree; But this is the highest cause of all: Hence was the Creation, Rev 4.11. The• art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory, and honour and power: […] thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are, and were created, The New-birth. Ja•. 1.18. Of his own will […] us by the word of truth—.The Application of Mercy, Rom 9.18. Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will, he •ardeweth. Hence He is guided by no Provision in the Creature.
4. HENCE this Will of God, is the First, Cause of all Things. If the Reason of the Being of Things be followed up to the Top, we must find it in the Decree; and in that we shall find them to have been determined by God's Will; Instrumental and 〈…〉 Causes there may be many, which he Wills to improve in the Execution of his Decree; But this is the highest cause of all: Hence was the Creation, Rev 4.11. The• art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory, and honour and power: 〈…〉 thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are, and were created, The New-birth. Ja•. 1.18. Of his own will 〈…〉 us by the word of truth—.The Application of Mercy, Rom 9.18. Therefor• hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will, he •ardeweth. Hence He is guided by no Provision in the Creature.