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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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7. THIS Will makes the Decree unalterable. It engageth God in Constancy to see to the Execution of all Things just as they […] determined: Hence that, Job 23.13. But he is in one mind, and who can t•r• him? and when his soul desireth, even that he doeth. It therefore cannot, shall not be frustrated: If anything have post under this Act, it stands ratified, and God abides firm by it, and all the Creation shall not turn him away, Isa. 43.1•. Yea, before the day was, I am b•; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall let it?
7. THIS Will makes the Decree unalterable. It engageth God in Constancy to see to the Execution of all Things just as they 〈…〉 determined: Hence that, Job 23.13. But he is in one mind, and who can t•r• him? and when his soul desireth, even that he doeth. It therefore cannot, shall not be frustrated: If anything have post under this Act, it stands ratified, and God abides firm by it, and all the Creation shall not turn him away, Isa. 43.1•. Yea, before the day was, I am b•; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall let it?
8. YET this Will lays •o forcible Necessity o the Creature; but only a Certainty as to the […]. Things shall be as it hath determined; and yet the Freedom of Causes by Counsel is no whit infringed by it, but ratified; because in it, God hath purposed that Free Agents shall Act freely: As to the Event, Christ's Bones could not be broken, and yet there was no Necessity Cogent laid on the Soldiers.