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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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6. THE Attributes as they are in God, are not distinct from the Essence, nor one from another. For they are all God himself, whose proper Name is, I AM, (Exod. 3.14.) His Mercy is God, and his Justice is God; and they are both one and the same undivided God. As the Sun by one and the same light, enlightens, warms, hardens, softens, nourisheth & dries up things; as all lines meet in their Centre, in one individual point, as all waters are one in the Sea.
6. THE Attributes as they are in God, are not distinct from the Essence, nor one from another. For they are all God himself, whose proper Name is, I AM, (Exod. 3.14.) His Mercy is God, and his Justice is God; and they are both one and the same undivided God. As the Sun by one and the same light, enlightens, warms, hardens, softens, nourisheth & dries up things; as all lines meet in their Center, in one individual point, as all waters are one in the Sea.
7. IN •ar Conception there is s•me foundation of a distinction of th•se Attributes in God, and that both in regard to our understanding, and to the things themselves. For, (1.) IN Reason Reasoning, or in our Understanding, we conceive of God, and of his Holiness, and of his Justice, &c. by a compound act, which first conceives of God; and then of his Holiness, as of an adjunct to the subject; and these two our reason lays together, and frames a speech of him, and says, God is holy; for without distinction & composition, our reason knows nothing: and this God allows us. (2.) In Reason Reasoned, or in the things themselves, from whence our Understanding draws arguments extrinsically, God's Attributes do shine forth after a distinct manner. When God punisheth, then he declares his wrath: when he saves then he makes known his mercy; (