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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 35 (Question 9 cont.)
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SERMON XXXV.
Seventhly, I Proceed to consider the Time that was taken up in the Work of Creation; it was done in the space of Six Days, This is positively asserted, Exod. 20 11. And the particular Account of it given, G•n. 1. Those that think that all things were Created, both as to Matter and Form in an Instant, and that the Division of the Work of Creation into Six Days, was only to decipher the Order of ⟨p. 111⟩things themselves, do directly ••o••n •ict the express letter of Scripture. It is ready granted, that God did not take up so much tit•e in it, for […] of Power to have done it at on•e; He that […] at •••••al word could have done it at […], ••d He seen meet; […] it othe•rise pi••se Him; and th• the Would be but One i• Order, but One c••••eserence, and One centre, One in Conti••ty, all the parts ••••hing one another, without say •acty: and On in End, being de for God's glory, yet it consists of divers parts, distinct in Nature & Essence; in which s displayed Goods absolute Sovereignty, in best ing variety of excellencies […] several Creatures, and His ld Wisdom in making so may sorts of […], and suiting them all to their various Ends, and God was pased to set thse Creatures in their Order; and being called His Ar. He so Marled them in Creation, as He made them Orderly to come forth into Being; and Leasely too, to ive us the better advan, […] contemplate the nature, oder & fnce of […] which was a main ty of Man in […] […] Goodness of God shining in thee thing, to give Him the Hoour & Pras thereof; wch in all lihood was a principal part of the mploy of the Sth, thn given to him: and t is still a work which […] Sls will delight to be sping; […] Lord with my whee […], in the en y of the […] the […]. T works of the Lord are grs, […] out of […] that […] pleasure therein.