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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.) 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. Luk. 1.32. And what is Supreme is necessarily Infinite. For let us conceive any thing tho' never so high, yet if it be within any degrees, there may be something conceived higher than that, but God is so high, as to be above all glory and praise.
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. Luk. 1.32. And what is Supre•m is necessarily Infinite. For let us conceive any thing tho' never so high, yet if it be within any degrees, there may be something conceived higher than that, but God is so high, as to be above all glory and praise.
2. GOD's Perfection is such as is not capable of receiving any addition: it cannot be augmented, or be greater than it is. Rom. 11.35. Or who bath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again? It then must of necessity be Infinite: for we are capable of thinking, from degree to degree, and there may be an addition in our conception to every finite thing: there can be no step till we come to infinite, and there we are lost, for nothing can go beyond that, or be more infinite; for here are no degrees or steps at all.