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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 14 (Question 4 cont.)
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A. IN sum, It is that whereby he reveals his communicable glory unto us, according to our manner and measure of receiving it. It is his speaking to us about himself in our own language, & according to our capacity of receiving and apprehending any thing of him. Here two things are considerable, viz. What he reveals of himself, and the way in which he reveals it.
1. THAT which God reveals to us, is his communicable Glory. The distinction of the Incommunicable & Communicable Perfections of God is known and received among Christians. What this communicable glory is, in particular, will afterwards be considered. In general, it is that which (in other terms) we call his Declarative glory, as the former is called his Essential glory: and it contains in it all those divine perfections, which God doth interest the creature in, and influence it withal; of which he hath given us the intimations in his word & works: whatsoever of God we may be any ways partakers in, or whereby he may have glory by or from us, belongs to this head; and this is that which the Apostle calls, That which may be known of God, (Rom. 1.19.) and is called his Name, (Exod. 33.19.) intimating that there is something that may not be known of him; nor yet could this, if he had not revealed it, either by the impression of it upon the creature, or by the Testimony he hath given of it by his holy Spirit?
2. THE way, in which God reveals himself to us, comes under a double Consideration.