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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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3. THAT no Decrees of God can be Unrighteous, but all are Just & Holy. His Sacred and Divine Will […] the Rule of the Decree […] is also the Rule of all things. He who W••s things because they seem Good in his s•ght, and is not any way accountable; He wise Will is Supreme and Holy: He cannot errors do amiss. It is therefore Impudent B••dness for us to find Fault with Him for any thing
3. THAT no Decrees of God can be Unrighteous, but all are Just & Holy. His Sacred and Divine Will 〈…〉 the Rule of the Decree 〈…〉 is also the Rule of all things. He who W••s things because they seem Good in his s•ght, and is not any way accountable; He w•se Will is Supream and Holy: He cannot errors do amiss. It is therefore Impudent B••dness for us to find Fault with Him for any thing
USE 2. LET the Doctrine of the D•r•s, teach us these Pr•••cal L••••s:
1. TO see our Nothingness witho•• God; How out of Him we are Nothing: It was him Decree that gave us ou Being: He accounts […] Nothing.