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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]
printed by B. Green and S. Kneeland for B. Eliot and D. Henchman, 1726
AN EXPOSITION OF THE ASSEMBLY's SHORTER CATECHISM: IN Two Hundred a… › Sermon 32 (Question 7)
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1. THAT there are no Events Casual in respect of God. To us it is true, Time & Chance happen to all Things: They come to pass by unseen Ways, and unknown Accidents: But in respect of God it is not so: There can Nothing fall out either besides his Knowledge or Intention; For it is his Decree that gives Being to all Events, and the Things that are, had never been if he had not Purposed them; Joseph's Vendition into Egypt had not come to pass, if God had not Fore-ordained it, &c. Gen. 45.5, 7. Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with year selves, that ye sold me •ither: for God did send me before you, to preserve life.— And God sent me before you, to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
1. THAT there are no Events Casual in resped of God. To us it is true, Time & Chance happen to all Things: They come to pass by unseen Ways, and unknown Accidents: But in respect of God it is not so: There can Nothing fall out either besides his Knowledge or Intention; For it is his Decree that gives Being to all Events, and the Things that are, had never been if he had not Purposed them; Joseph's Vendition into AEgypt had not come to pass, if God had not Fore-ordain'd it, &c. Gen. 45.5, 7. Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with year selves, that ye sold me •ither: for God did send me before you, to preserve life.— And God sent me before you, to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
2. THAT all Things that come to pass, are the Product of Infinite Wisdom. God doth all, and he doth it according to Counsel. We are ready to find some Flaw in God's Providence, and think we could mend many things; but remember, all Things are ordered by the Counsel, not of Men or Angels, but of God, who doth nothing rashly: The highest and most dreadful Wheels are full of Eyes,