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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 34 (Question 9)
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SERMON XXXIV.
QUESTION, IX. WHAT is the Work of Creation? ANSWER. THE Work of Creation is, God's making all things of nothing, by the Word of his Power, in the space of Six Days, and all very good.
CREATION is the First part of God's Efficiency. The thing must First have a Being, in order to it's being Provided for. In the ⟨p. 108⟩Description here given, we may observe several things; 1. The thing described, Creation 2. The thing asserted, Creation is, there such a Work. 3. The Author or F•••ent of it, God wadert. 4. The Subject of it, All things. 5. The Negative Principle. (if I may so call it,) of Nothing. 6. The Active Principle, from which this Efficiency proceeded, the Word of his Power. 7. The Time taken up in it, in the space of Six Days. 8. The Quality in which it was made, all very Good. The opening of these, will help us in the Contemplation of this great Work of God.