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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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USE 2. HENCE There is much of God to be seen in all the Works which we daily see done in the World. Something of God appears in all; there is no Work which He is not in, no Action which he Orders not; and that, not as a bare Spectator or Supervisor, but an Agent in all. We see and hear of many wonderful Providences, strange Changes that are brought about, stupendous Effects which non-plus our Understandings in the enquiry after the Causes of them: Now, who, or whatever be the Instrument, He is the Efficient; and this is to be observed in every Passage, whether of Kindness shown us, or Injury done to us, it is the Lord, he bids Shimei to Curse David; and this may teach us to Adore and Worship Him in all, and to sit down quieted under whatsoever befalls us, saying with him, Psal. 39.9. I was dumb, I opened not my much, because thou didst it.
USE 2. HENCE There is much of God to be seen in all the Works which we daily see done in the World. Something of God appears in all; there is no Work which He is not in, no Action which he Orders not; and that, not as a bare Spectator or Supervisor, but an Agent in all. We see and hear of many wonderful Providences, strange Changes that are brought about, stupendous Effects which non-plus our Understandings in the enquiry after the Causes of them: Now, who, or whatever be the Instrument, He is the Efficient; and this is to be observed in every Passage, whether of Kindness shewn us, or Injury done to us, it is the Lord, he bids Shimet to Curse David; and this may teach us to Adore and Worship Him in all, and to sit down quieted under whatsoever befalls us, saying with him, Psal. 39.9. I was dumb, I opened not my muth, because thou didst it.
USE 3. LEARN hence, That it is the Christians Duty to dwell much in the Contemplation of the Efficiency of God. Psal. 66.5. Come and see the works of God. Psal. 77.11.12