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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 34 (Question 9)
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Sixthly, THE Adive Principle from which this Efficiency proceeded, viz. The Word of His Power. His ••n•p•tent Will gave the Being of all Things and this is called His Powerful Word; and we read. Psal. 33.6. […]. By the word of the Lord were the heavens made.—He spike and it was done—. And how often in Gen. Chap. 1. And God •eid, &c. and it was. Here is to be observed, 1. God's O•nip•ten••. 2. His Decree. (of both which, hath been already spoken.) 3. His Word, which is the employing His Om••p••ency, to accomplish His Purpose, and so t•e Creature •e••ived its Being.
Sixthly, THE Adive Principle from which this Efficiency proceeded, viz. The Word of His Power. His ••n•p•tent Will gave the Being of all Things and this is called His Powerful Word; and we read. Psal. 33.6. 〈…〉. By the word of the Lord were the heavens made.—He spike and it was done—. And how often in Gen. Chap. 1. And God •eid, &c. and it was. Here is to be observed, 1. God's O•nip•ten••. 2. His Decree. (of both which, hath been already spoken.) 3. His Word, which is the employing His Om••p••ency, to accomplish His Purpose, and so te Creature eived its Being.