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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 33 (Question 8)
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3. EFFICIENCY is not an Immanent Act remaining in God, but Transient, falling upon an external Subject, and leaving an Impression or Change upon that. This Act leaves no Change in God; He is the same he was; it only adds a Relation to Him, which he bears to the Effect; the only Change is in the Subject, which by it passeth from Not-being, to Being; and so to such a Being.
II. AS to the special Nature of Efficiency, take these two things, in the Description.
1. IT is that whereby God Works All things. He Works all kinds of things, great and small: His Finger is in every thing; there is nothing done in the World but he is the doer of it, Eph. 1.11. — He worketh all things —. If we look all ev•• the World, and see any thing effected or made: any operation wr••g•• or thing brought to pass: we may say as the •••g••ians once. This is the Finger of •nd. […] had his •a•d in it, or it had never been done.
1. IT is that whereby God Works All things. He Works all kinds of things, great and small: His Finger is in every thing; there is nothing done in the World but he is the doer of it,