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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 16 (Question 4 cont.)
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3. HENCE it follows that God is a most Absolute Being. For, if he be the first, then he cannot be a Being by participation; for such presume one before them, from which they participate. The first Being must of necessity be Being it self: all other things have but some shreds of Being derived from him, who is an Universal Sea & Ocean of Being, the engrosser of all Being in the latitude of it. And this is also intimated in that Name, I AM; because it is his only prerogative Royal, to be. Creatures are shadows of Being, have no Entity in comparison with him, (Forecited, Isai. 40.17.) and this also is intimated in his Name JEHOVAH, which implies, both that he is himself, and that he gives Being to all Creatures; that he is, was, and will be; that he hath such a Being, which, as it was before all, so it remains in entity, and will do, in spite of all adverse powers that seek to raze it out. Psal. 90.2. Even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.
3. HENCE it follows that God is a most Absolute Being. For, if he be the first, then he cannot be a Being by participation; for such presume one before them, from which they participate. The first Being must of necessity be Being it self: all other things have but some shreads of Being derived from him, who is an Universal Sea & Ocean of Being, the engrosser of all Being in the latitude of it. And this is also intimated in that Name, I AM; because it is his only prerogative Royal, to be. Creatures are shadows of Being, have no Entity in comparison with him, (Forecited, Isai. 40.17.) and this also is intimated in his Name JEHOVAH, which implies, both that he is himself, and that he gives Being to all Creatures; that he is, was, and will be; that he hath such a Being, which, as it was before all, so it remains in entity, and will do, in spite of all adverse powers that seek to raze it out. Psal. 90.2. Even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.