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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 18 (Question 4 cont.)
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2. BY virtue of this Attribute, God is of unlimited and unsearchable Perfectives: or he is without all limits or bounds of his Essence: all created beings are bounded by their Essences; the form acting upon the matter, limits it within its own confines; but God is unconfined. There can be no searching him out to perfection, Job 11.7, &c. and this unlimitedness is applicable to all that can be said of him. Hence the Psalmist attributes it to his Understanding. (Psal. 147.5.) and our Answer before us, predicates it of all his other Attributes; for which we have sufficient footsteps in the Scripture.
2. BY vertue of this Attribute, God is of unlimited and unsearchable Perfectives: or he is without all limits or bounds of his Essence: all created beings are bounded by their Essences; the form acting upon the matter, limits it within its own confines; but God is unconfined. There can be no searching him out to perfection, Job 11.7, &c. and this unlimitedness is applicable to all that can be said of him. Hence the Psalmist attributes it to his Understanding. (Psal. 147.5.) and our Answer before us, predicates it of all his other Attributes; for which we have sufficient footsteps in the Scripture.
(2.) FOR the Evidence, or to discover wherein God appears to be Infinite, let us consider,
1. GOD's Perfection is the highest perfection, and for that reason it must needs be Infinite. He is called the most high, Psal 18.0.