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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 69 (Question 19 cont.)
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A. ETERNITY may be considered as it is it Scripture attributed either is God or the c•• ture. In what sease it is attributed to God, we have already considered, in the Doctrine of that Attribute, in which we observed hi• to be without beginning, succession, or ending of time: in which respect, it is an incommunicable perfection of his, and no second being can lay any claim unto it. When it is ascribed unto the creature, it is an improper kind of term, which only bears a resemblance to me of the properties of God's Eternity. The creatures Eternity; or, as some for distinction sake, call it, Eviternity, hath, 1. A beginning; for all second beings are the offspring of times once they were not. 2. A succession their duration is measured, because they […] finite beings. But, 3. It hath no ending; I know some deny succession also to spirited substances; but, how a finite being, should in have its finitude inseparably attended with succession, or how a spiritual being, should not be said to be older now, than it was in the first hour of its creation. I cannot ••• jecture. Some define the creatures eternity, to be a succeeding now, as they call it, because of its endless duration: in which respect it is differenced from time, which hath an••d; in regard of which endless duration, in an improper sease, a thousand years may be […] to be as a day; because the sinners torment shall be no nearer an end, after a thousand years, than they were the first day they began, because they have no end: a succeeding now they call it, because, as it began, so it hath a succession: it hath so far a rete•••• to, or representation of time, that the […] shall be making progress in his miseries, which is a sore aggravation of them, and will made his torments appear long and tiresome. So that it is, as it were, a middle state between time and eternity: it hath a relation to time by succession, which will weary the […] out, under his torments; a relation also a eternity in its perpetuity, which shall […] the sinner with endless despair.
A. ETERNITY may be considered as it is it Scripture attributed either is God or the c•• ture. In what sease it is attributed to God, we have already considered, in the Doctrine of that Attribute, in which we observed hi• to be without beginning, succession, or ending of time: in which respect, it is an incommunicable perfection of his, and no second being can lay any claim unto it. When it is ascribed unto the creature, it is an improper kind of term, which only bears a resemblance to me of the properties of God's Eternity. The creatures Eternity; or, as some for distinction sake, call it, Eriternity, hath, 1. A beginning; for all second beings are the offspring of times once they were not. 2. A succession their duration is measured, because they finite beings. But, 3. It hath no ending; I know some deny succession also to spirited substances; but, how a finite being, should in have its finitude inseperably attended with succession, or how a spiritual being, should not be said to be older now, than it was in the first hour of its creation. I cannot jecture. Some define the creatures eternity, to be a succeeding now, as they call it, because of its endless duration: in which respect it is differenced from time, which hath and; in regard of which endless duration, in an improper sease, a thousand years may be to be as a day; because the sinners torment shall be no nearer an end, after a thousand years, than they were the first day they began, because they have no end: a succeeding now they call it, because, as it began, so it hath a succession: it hath so far a rete to, or representation of time, that the shall be making progress in his miseries, which is a sore aggravation of them, and will made his torments appear long and tiresome. So that it is, as it were, a middle state between time and eternity: it hath a relation to time by succession, which will weary the out, under his torments; a relation also a eternity in its perpetuity, which shall the sinner with endless despair.