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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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5. HENCE the Will of God is without Cause; or there can no proper Reason be given why he Wills: I mean any Thing without Himself, determining his Will: There can be nothing greater than the Will of God, for it is Infinite; Nor before it, for it is Eternal. Matth. 11.25, 26. At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank th••, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, •o cause thou hast […] th•se things from the wise and ponders, and hast revealed there was a •••es. […] •o Father, for so it secured good in thy sight. There may be a Reason of God's Will given, in respect of the Creature willed; He may Will the Existence of One for Another, and all have their Ends; so that if we ask why God made the […], &c. But if we ask what moved and inclined God's Will, &c. we must say, Nothing but his Will.
5. HENCE the Will of God is without Cause; or there can no proper Reason be given why he Wills: I mean any Thing without Himself, determining his Will: There can be nothing greater than the Will of God, for it is Infinite; Nor before it, for it is Eternal. Matth. 11.25, 26. At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank th••, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, •o cause thou hast 〈…〉 th•se things from the wise and ponders, and hast revealed there was a •••es. 〈…〉 •o Father, for so it secured good in thy sight. There may be a Reason of God's Will given, in respect of the Creature willed; He may Will the Existence of One for Another, and all have their Ends; so that if we ask why God made the 〈…〉, &c. But if we ask what moved and enclined God's Will, &c. we must say, Nothing but his Will.