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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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2. NOT only […] but he Works Ast […] ••l things: 1 Cor. 12.6. […] the some God, which worketh all i• […] i. e. The ••ole Efficiency of all things Depends upon the First Cause; not only as to their Substantial Beings, but also as to the real Circumstances thereof, Isa. 45.7. I form the Light; and create Darkness: I make Fence, and create Ex•l; I the Lord […] all these things. All that concerns the Time, Place, Event, Success, &c. are ordered and wrought by Him; He himself drives the great a•• whose Trade of all the World; being the Cause of all Causes, and First mover of every thing that moves; Acts 17.2•. In Him we live, were •nd have •ur being.
2. NOT only 〈…〉 but he Works Ast 〈…〉 ••l things: 1 Cor. 12.6. 〈…〉 the some God, which worketh all i• 〈…〉 i. e. The ••ole Efficiency of all things Depends upon the First Cause; not only as to their Substantial Beings, but also as to the real Circumstances thereof, Isa. 45.7. I form the Light; and create Darkness: I make Fence, and create Ex•l; I the Lord 〈…〉 all these things. All that concerns the Time, Place, Event, Success, &c. are ordered and wrought by Him; He himself drives the great a whose Trade of all the World; being the Cause of all Causes, and First mover of every thing that moves;