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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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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. 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.
[2.] HE hath more than enough in him, for his Creatures. He only is sufficient in himself, that is able to maintain all his dependents, for whom by any right he stands engaged to provide. God is sufficient, as for himself, so for all beings that derive from, and wait upon him. Hence he assumes that title, Gen. 17.1. I am the Almighty God. Which word is thought to be derived of a root, that signifies a Breast. Especially he is sufficient for the happiness of his People; and that renders him an Object Adequate for our Faith. Here two things,