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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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3. AS he needs not, so neither doth he, nor can he, desire any more, than what he hath and is in himself. His Infinite Will completely acquiesceth in himself. It is Impossible that he should enquire after any farther degree of happiness, than what he enjoys at home. When he was alone by himself, and no other with him, then he rejoiced in himself, and the possession of his own glory: he never craved any thing from the Creature to mend himself by. Hence that, Psal. 50.9. &c. I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor h•• oats out of thy folds. For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand h•lls. If I were hungry, I would not tell thee, for the world is mine, and the fullness thereof.
3. AS he needs not, so neither doth he, nor can he, desire any more, than what he hath and is in himself. His Infinite Will compleatly acquiesceth in himself. It is Impossible that he should enquire after any farth•r degree of happiness, than what he enjoys at home. When he was alone by himself, and no other with him, then he rejoyced in himself, and the possession of his own glory: he never craved any thing from the Creature to mend himself by. Hence that, Psal. 50.9. &c. I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor h•• oats out of thy folds. For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattel upon a thousand h•lls. If I were hungry, I would not tell thee, for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
4. HIS perfection is so full, that it is incapable of receiving any addition. He can receive in ⟨p. 48⟩