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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 16 (Question 4 cont.)
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VI GOD discovers his All-sufficiency to us, in his Essence, and in his Subsistences. It is in this way of his manifesting himself to us, that our Faith is guided to trade with him for life. Our Salvation depends on One God, in Three Persons. Man, as he is a Reasonable Creature, stands in need of a Deity to make him happy; and as he is a Sinner, he wants a Trinity, to save him: and we have both these fully displayed to us in Scripture. The Essence is first in order to be considered of; and that because the Godhead is the Ultimate Object of our Faith; it must ascend thither, and rest there. The Absolute Being of God is the subject of all his relations, and we believe in all the Divine Persons, because they are God. Joh. 14.1. Ye believe in God, believe also in me.
VI GOD discovers his Alsufficiency to us, in his Essence, and in his Subsistences. It is in this way of his manifesting himself to us, that our Faith is guided to trade with him for life. Our Salvation depends on One God, in Three Persons. Man, as he is a Reasonable Creature, stands in need of a Deity to make him happy; and as he is a Sinner, he wants a Trinity, to save him: and we have both these fully displayed to us in Scripture. The Essence is first in order to be considered of; and that because the Godhead is the Ultimate Object of our Faith; it must ascend thither, and rest there. The Absolute Being of God is the subject of all his relations, and we believe in all the Divine Persons, because they are God. Joh. 14.1. Ye believe in God, believe also in me.
VII. THE Divine Essence is God, the most Absolute First Being. I might here treat of the Unity of the Essence, but because our Catechism gives us a particular question for that, I wave it till we come thither. We may briefly take the opening of the Description given in a few Conclusions.