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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 17 (Question 4 cont.)
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whether by any spiritual matter, or otherways, it is sure they are Essence, and their own Essence limits their being within the confines of finiteness; so that one Angel fills not all places at once, nor is in Heaven & Earth at the same instant: but the Divine Essence is unlimited, and Infinite. 4. ANGELS are under the Dominion of Another; they owe subjection to him who made them; the very name of Angel which they bear upon them carries this intimation in it; for this reason they are called Ministering Spirits, Heb. 1.14. But God is above all Dominion, it belongs to him as his Prerogative; he is supreme, and Angels themselves are at his command in all things. 5. IN Spirits their Essence and their Act are two things, they are distinct the one from the other: but in God his Essence & his Act are one and the same thing: hence we say, Whatsoever is in God, is God; but we cannot so say of a created Spirit or Angel: hence they are capable of several distinct principles & powers in them, and not only in our Conception, which cannot be affirmed of God.
whether by any spiritual matter, or otherways, it is sure they are Essence, and their own Essence limits their being within the confines of finiteness; so that one Angel fills not all places at once, nor is in Heaven & Earth at the same instant: but the Divine Essence is unlimited, and Infinite. 4. ANGELS are under the Dominion of Another; they owe subjection to him who made them; the very name of Angel which they bear upon them carries this intimation in it; for this reason they are called Ministring Spirits, Heb. 1.14. But God is above all Dominion, it belongs to him as his Prerogative; he is supream, and Angels themselves are at his command in all things. 5. IN Spirits their Essence and their Act are two things, they are distinct the one from the other: but in God his Essence & his Act are one and the same thing: hence we say, Whatsoever is in God, is God; but we cannot so say of a created Spirit or Angel: hence they are capable of several distinct principles & powers in them, and not only in our Conception, which cannot be affirmed of God.