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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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3. GOD is Being it self, and that most absolutely; his Infiniteness is radicated in his Essence. Abstracts are infinite; Concretes are Finite. A Being from another must needs be finite, but Being it self is Infinite; such is God; He is the first; had not his Being from any; is from Everlasting; and what bounds can be ascribed to such a Being: if his Being were limited, it were not absolute; Beings are therefore finite, because they are derived; Hence an underived being is Infinite: such is his.
4. ALL created perfections are derived from him, and therefore his must be Infinite: He that is the Fountain from whence all flows to the whole Creation, must be without banks or bottom: he that gives, is undoubtedly greater than they that receive: there are uncountable perfections of the several Creatures in their kind; and some of these are also, vastly great, as those of the Angels but this must be greater, from whom every ••e of these derives and is supplied & uphold continually: what can it be less than Infinite, and such is God: so we read in, Rom. 11.2•.3•. Or […] into fo• given to him, and it sta•l•c •••msexsed unto him space? For of him, and through him, and to him are all things: it whom it glory for ever. Amen.
4. ALL created perfections are derived from him, and therefore his must be Infinite: He that is the Fountain from whence all flows to the whole Creation, must be without banks or bottom: he that gives, is undoubtedly greater than they that receive: there are uncountable perfections of the several Creatures in their kind; and some of these are also, vastly great, as those of the Angels but this must be greater, from whom every e of these derives and is supplied & uphold continually: what can it be less than Infinite, and such is God: so we read in,