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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 33 (Question 8)
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SERMON XXXIII.
QUESTION VIII. HOW d••b GOD Execute His Decrees? ANSWER. GOD Executeth his Decrees in the Works of Creation, and Providence.
WE have heard, That the Decrees of God relate to such things as come to pass in Time; in this Decree therefore we are to consider its Constitution, and its Exec•••••: […] former hath been taken notice of under the foregoing Question; the latter comprehends in it the whole Work of Efficiency; a Distribution of which out present Answer affords us; and gives us the occasion to look into the thing it self, whereof this Distribution is made, •e. God's Efficiency; of which take this Description: IT is that whereby God worketh things, & •li in ••l•bengs. What God fore-ordained in his Decree, that be brings to pass in his Works; these therefore are of an equal latitude. Efficiency signifies the thorough doing of a thing. Every Being or Thing is a Work of God, and claim's Him for the doer of it.
WE have heard, That the Decrees of God relate to such things as come to pass in Time; in this Decree therefore we are to consider its Constitution, and its Exec: former hath been taken notice of under the foregoing Question; the latter comprehends in it the whole Work of Efficiency; a Distribution of which out present Answer affords us; and gives us the occasion to look into the thing it self, whereof this Distribution is made, e. God's Efficiency; of which take this Description: IT is that whereby God worketh things, & li in lbengs. What God fore-ordained in his Decree, that be brings to pass in his Works; these therefore are of an equal latitude. Efficiency signifies the thorough doing of a thing. Every Being or Thing is a Work of God, and claim's Him for the doer of it.