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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 8 (Question 2 cont.)
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Q. 1. HOW the Scriptures appear to be true? A. THERE needs no more to evidence this, but only the consideration, that they are the word of God: and if they be acknowledged to be so, none but an Atheist will call the truth of them in question. That they are the word of God hath already been proved in a set discourse; that because they are so, they must needs be true, is now to be proved unless it might be thought superfluous; however, let these few things be considered for the confirmation of it.
(1.) GOD who is the author of the Scripture, is truth itself, and therefore his word must needs be true. Truth is one of the divine attributes or perfections which belong to God eminently, and inseparably, he is so true, that he cannot lie. Heb. 6.18. —impossible for God to lie.—Had it come from men originally, it might be suspected; but it's above suspicion in that it is from him. Rom. 3.4. — Let God be true, but ⟨p. 25⟩every man a liar. When Truth it self may be suspected of falsehood, then, & not till then, may the truth of the Scripture be made a doubt of.
(1.) GOD who is the author of the Scripture, is truth itself, and therefore his word must needs be true. Truth is one of the divine attributes or perfections which belong to God eminently, and inseparably, he is so true, that he cannot ly. Heb. 6.18. —impossible for God to lie.—Had it come from men originally, it might be suspected; but it's above suspicion in that it is from him. Rom. 3.4. — Let God be true, but ⟨p. 25⟩every man a lyar. When Truth it self may be suspected of falsehood, then, & not till then, may the truth of the Scripture be made a doubt of.