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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. IF we take a particular Account of things, we shall discern that this Efficiency is in them all, and that their whole Dependence is upon it. And this will appear, hoth,
3. IF we take a particular Account of things, we shall discern that this Efficiency is in them all, and that their whole Dependance is upon it. And this will appear, hoth,
1. IN the Production of all things. Whatsoever is made, He made it. All things are the Workmanship of His Hands, Effects which he hath produced by the Word of his Power, Gen. •1.1 Isa. 40.26. & 41.4. He made us, and not we ourselves. If we were made, we had a Maker, and there was none could make the Creature but He; besides whom there was none, when the Creature was not. And,
2. IN the Ordering of Management of the things that are produced by Him. In all the carrying on of the Affairs of the whole World, He is All in All; and his Hand is in every thing: (1.) IN the very Smallest things that are. There is not so much as a Sparrow falls to the ground, but it is according as He disposeth it, it is not without Him; and the very Hairs of our head are all numbered by Him Matth. 10.29, 30 There is not a Gourd grows, nor a Worm that eats it, but it is according as he Orders it; Jonah 4.6, 7. He hath an Hand in the very Birds building their Nests, and disposeth thereof as he pleaseth.