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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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2. TO above the Wisdom of God in […] Things that fall out in the World, and that bes•• U• in particular. We are apt to Cavil; but remember, Infinite Counsel ordered them; That satisfied Him, Job 23.14. For be p•rjorm••• the thing thus is appointed for we: and many s••• things are with him. The Reason why we s• not the Wisdom of them, is, Partly because being Creatures we cannot fathom the Wisdom of the Creator: and as sinful Creatures we are b••nd and prejudiced: Partly because we forget the End they ultimately aim at, and measure them by such as we allot them; and Partly that Pride, having an high Opinion of our own Wisdom, which is indeed Foolishness.
2. TO above the Wisdom of God in 〈…〉 Things that fall out in the World, and that bes•• U• in particular. We are apt to Cavil; but remember, Infinite Counsel ordered them; That satisfied Him, Job 23.14. For be p•rjorm••• the thing thus is appointed for we: and many s••• things are with him. The Reason why we s• not the Wisdom of them, is, Partly because being Creatures we cannot fathom the Wisdom of the Creator: and as sinful Creatures we are b••nd and prejudiced: Partly because we forget the End they ultimately aim at, and measure them by such as we allot them; and Partly that Pride, having an high Opinion of our own Wisdom, which is indeed Foolishness.