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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 15 (Question 4 cont.)
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(2.) WHENCE should he receive it? It must be from the Creature, if at all; but that cannot be; for all, which that hath, it had of him. Acts 17.25. Neither is worshipped with mens hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing be giveth to all life, and breath, and all things. They can give him nothing but what is his own: He spared it out of his fullness, or they had never had it.
(2.) WHENCE should he receive it? It must be from the Creature, if at all; but that cannot be; for all, which that hath, it had of him. Acts 17.25. Neither is worshipped with mens hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing be giveth to all life, and breath, and all things. They can give him nothing but what is his own: He spared it out of his fulness, or they had never had it.
5. HIS happiness cannot be impaired: There can be no diminution of his fullness: He is out of the reach of any violence, as the Creature cannot add to, so it cannot take away from, his felicity. As our Goodness reacheth not to him, to benefit him; so our Sin cannot touch his happiness, to impair it. Job 35.6, 7, 8. If thou sinnest, what dost thou against him? Or if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him? If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand? Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art, and thy righteousness may profit the son of man.
5. HIS happiness cannot be impaired: There can be no diminution of his fulness: He is out of the reach of any violence, as the Creature cannot add to, so it cannot take away from, his felicity. As our Goodness reacheth not to him, to benefit him; so our Sin cannot touch his happiness, to impair it. Job 35.6, 7, 8