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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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1. THE Attributes of God are his Essence, which is in it self a pure Act, diversly apprehended by us. It is a necessary consectary, from God's being the most absolute first being, that he is a mere act; that his Nature is simple, and altogether void of any sort of composition; and hence it follows, that in his being there can be no division. Now because this act cannot be known by us altogether, at one sight of our Understanding; but we must needs have a diversified representation of it, it being too big for our single comprehension; Hereupon God hath taken Attributes to himself, which are so many several expressions of the same Essence and Act: and these are more properly said to be assumed by him, than to be so many several Perfections of him. An Attribute is the consequent of an Axiom. Every Axiom, or sentence in a speech, consists of an Antecedent, expressing the subject, and a Consequent expressing the Attribute, which is predicated of it; and this is our Humans way to conceive of things; and therefore they are due to God from us. Psal. 29 2. Give […] the Lord the glory due to his Name. For it is by them that we come to know any thing at all of him.
1. THE Attributes of God are his Essence, which is in it self a pure Act, diversly apprehended by us. It is a necessary consectary, from God's being the most absolute first being, that he is a meer act; that his Nature is simple, and altogether void of any sort of composition; and hence it follows, that in his being there can be no division. Now because this act cannot be known by us altogether, at one sight of our Understanding; but we must needs have a diversified representation of it, it being too big for our single comprehension; Hereupon God hath taken Attributes to himself, which are so many several expressions of the same Essence and Act: and these are more properly said to be assumed by him, than to be so many several Perfections of him. An Attribute is the consequent of an Axiome. Every Axiome, or sentence in a speech, consists of an Antecedent, expressing the subject, and a Consequent expressing the Attribute, which is predicated of it; and this is our Humans way to conceive of things; and therefore they are due to God from us. Psal. 29 2. Give 〈…〉 the Lord the glory due to his Name. For it is by them that we come to know any thing at all of him.