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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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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. Isa. 4•.15, 1• •••id, the […] was are as a •r•p of a •••ket, •••d are •••ted at the s••• dust of the because: behold be ••keth of the […] as a very little thing.—All […] was before him are •s •th••g; and they are •••••ed to him •ess then nothing, and vanity. Let us c••nt our selves so. As Creatures we are ••cer Effects of his Good Pleasure: When we are listed up in Ourselves, let us look on the Possible E•••gs, which never shall be, and remember it is the Decree that put all the Difference between Us and Them: We came from Nothing, and had been Nothing still, but for this.
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. Isa. 4•.15, 1• •••id, the was are as a rp of a ket, d are ted at the s dust of the because: behold be keth of the as a very little thing.—All was before him are s thg; and they are ed to him ess then nothing, and vanity. Let us cnt our selves so. As Creatures we are cer Effects of his Good Pleasure: When we are listed up in Ourselves, let us look on the Possible Egs, which never shall be, and remember it is the Decree that put all the Difference between Us and Them: We came from Nothing, and had been Nothing still, but for this.