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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 12 (Question 4)
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SERMON XII.
QUESTION IV. WHAT is GOD? ANSWER. GOD is a Spirit, Infinite, Eternal and Unchangeable, in his Being, Wisdom, Power, Holiness, Justice, Goodness and Truth.
GOD being the great & ultimate Object of Religion, and he on whom our faith is to depend, and to whom our Obedience is to return, as being the first cause and the last end, and because faith is the foundation of true Observance, the knowledge of him therefore is the first thing necessary to be sought after. Hence that of our Saviour, Joh. 17 3. And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent. Now the great design of Scripture is to discover God to us. We must know him, if ever we trust in him. No other object can make us happy but He; and therefore our faith can rest with safety on no other. This then is the present enquiry. It was once a proud enquiry of insolent Pharaoh, Who is God? But it ought to be the humble inquisition of all the children of men: and our great request should be, that God would reveal himself to us. Before I proceed to the direct explaining of the Answer, there are a few things requisite to be spoken to.