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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 15 (Question 4 cont.)
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Amen. Others cannot deprive him, for he dwells in the light unapproachable; he cannot deprive himself, for his perfection is inseparable from his being. In Creatures, their being is one thing, and their perfection to other. In God they are one & the same: He is Light, Love, Wisdom, &c. (2.) THE special nature, or discovery of it is, that by virtue of this fullness, he hath enough in himself to answer his own ends. The notion of sufficiency, amongst men, is a respect, which the means bear to the end; and so we conceive of God after our manner. Hence All-sufficiency must extend to all the ends or designs that one hath. Which sufficiency of God, is wont to be expressed by Divines, in two particulars, that may be a little opened and cleared.
Amen. Others cannot deprive him, for he dwells in the light unapproachable; he cannot deprive himself, for his perfection is inseparable from his being. In Creatures, their being is one thing, and their perfection to other. In God they are one & the same: He is Light, Love, Wisdom, &c. (2.) THE special nature, or discovery of it is, that by vertue of this fulness, he hath enough in himself to answer his own ends. The notion of sufficiency, amongst men, is a respect, which the means bear to the end; and so we conceive of God after our manner. Hence Alsufficiency must extend to all the ends or designs that one hath. Which sufficiency of God, is wont to be expressed by Divines, in two particulars, that may be a little opened and cleared.
[1.] HE hath enough in himself for himself, or for his own happiness. He is throughly furnished with all that is needful or requisite for a Divine life. We may take up this in these Assertions.
1. GOD doth possess a Divine happiness. Hence the title of Blessed is so often ascribed to him in Scripture; yea, he is said to be God blessed for ever. And Happiness, in our notion, ariseth from the affluence of all suitable and sufficient good; that which is fitted to the nature of the Being, and of which there is enough.