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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. IF we consider His Sovereign Acting and Oratring of every Motion of the Creature, and that whether Natural or Moral. Here mind two things: (1.) HE can Interpose & Prevent the Motion of the Creature, when He Will. That he doth so, shows that he can; & we have Instances sufficient for it; See for this, Job 9.7. He commandeth the Sun, and it riseth not; and sea•eth up the St••s. Psal. 106.9. He rebuked the Red Sea else, and it was dried up. Many such Acts as these have been done at the Exercise of the Faith of his People; divers whereof are mentioned in Heb. 11. particularly v. 33, 34. ⟨p. 106⟩(2.) THE Creatures, when they do act, are always at His Command. They do just what He bids them, and no more, or otherwise: Psal. 78.26. He caused on east wind to blow in the heaven: and by his power he brought in the south•ind, &c. He is therefore said to be the Father of all these Effects, Job 38.18, 29. Hath the rain a father? or who bath begotten the drops of the d•••? Out of whose too••b came the Ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who bath gendered it? And they all are at his Word, and fulfil it, Ver. 31. Psal. 148.8. And how can this be ascribed to Him, but in regard of His prevalent and predetermining Efficiency? He who doth this, must needs be acknowledged the First Mover.
2. IF we consider His Sovereign Acting and Oratring of every Motion of the Creature, and that whether Natural or Moral. Here mind two things: (1.) HE can Interpose & Prevent the Motion of the Creature, when He Will. That he doth so, shews that he can; & we have Instances sufficient for it; See for this,