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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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II. FROM the Me••er of their Production; which was in a way of Creature. It is true some Creatures are con•••ted in a way of Grea•••••. but all had their Beginning by Creation; and this is a Work th•• ••oe b•t God could do; there is no other […] can work in such a way: […] away Ma•••als which they may work upon, and the whole world of Created Agents, Matu•al and Artificial, must sit Idle, and do nothing […] Art can work, if Nature a••ord it some compl••• matter. Let a Corp•••• have suitable Stand, and be can build an House, otherwise not. Nature can work if […] be a Principle to work upon, though incomplete: Let there be Seed, and it one produce a Pant; Spa•••, and it can make a Fi••: But to Work without pre•••••• Manner, so as to bring forth the First Psalm without a See, the F••• Fi•• without a Spe•••; you the First Primeri••e, of these, and all things, […] of Nothing, by his bare if and of Command, is proper to God, and belongs to no other; but such is the Work of […] It is such a Work as requires O••i••••y to Effect, and therefore none […] He w•o is O••rpe•e••, could ever being it about.