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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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5. GOD's Perfections are incomprehensive; this hath been already proved, that he cannot be known as he is in himself; and whence is it, but because the understandings of men and Angels are finite! and that a finite faculty cannot comprehend the knowledge of the Being of God, must needs be because (being Infinite he is too vast a Being for their Capacity. V•rstius disputes against the Infiniteness of God, because he may be defined, and therefore is this Ind•••d••••; but we have heard that all our Logical notions are improperly ascribed to him, and that he is not a Being properly, as we conceive of a Being; much less a portion of Being, as a thing which may be defined is; but he is above being, and all beings are nothing to him, Isa•. 10.11. and why nothing, but because there is an infinite distance between the first being, and all others; and therefore there is as great a distance as between him and nothing. Ten thousand Worlds are nothing to him and therefore all the Nations of the World are less that nothing.
(3.) THERE are two other precious Attributes of God, which shine out and show themselves in God's Infinity.
(3.) THERE are two other precious Attributes of God, which shine out and shew themselves in God's Infinity.
1. THERE is Divine Immensity; which is God, without all Dimensions, or not to be measured by the conceived measures, by which other beings may, such as Length, Breadth, Height, Depth. This is excellently expressed by Z•phar, in