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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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NOW our Answer given us a full, general Distribution of this Efficiency, giving us the two Heads, to which all that can be mentioned, as relating to it, must be reduced. All the External Works of God belong hither; God ⟨p. 107⟩gives a le•ng to all things that are; and having made them He takes Care of them, and Provides for them, Orders and manageth them to the Ends and Purposes they were made for. The Creature could not make it self; a meet Nonentity could not reduce it self into a Being, but must have remained Nothing for ever, if he had not given it Existence: and when it is made, it is as little able to Maintain its own Being; the same hand that produced it, must set a second hand to it, or else it will return again into Nothing; and under these two we shall find all the Works of God. A distinct inquiry into each of these will be afforded us in pursuance of the following Questions; which will afterwards come under our consideration.
NOW our Answer given us a full, general Distribution of this Efficiency, giving us the two Heads, to which all that can be mentioned, as relating to it, must be reduced. All the External Works of God belong hither; God ⟨p. 107⟩gives a le•ng to all things that are; and having made them He takes Care of them, and Provides for them, Orders and manageth them to the Ends and Porposes they were made for. The Creature could not make it self; a meet Nonentity could not reduce it self into a Being, but must have remained Nothing for ever, if he had not given it Existence: and when it is made, it is as little able to Maintain its own Being; the same hand that produced it, must set a second hand to it, or else it will return again into Nothing; and under these two we shall find all the Works of God. A distinct inquiry into each of these will be afforded us in pursuance of the following Questions; which will afterwards come under our consideration.