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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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but God is as much where the Creature is, as where it is not, for that indeed is in him. 5. THAT his Being is beyond all place. Place indeed is nothing else but a limit of created beings: hence the utmost bounds of place reach not beyond the Convex of the third Heaven, which tho' it be wonderfully vast, yet it is circumscribed: but we are assured that this large room, which grasps all second Beings in its Con•••e, doth not engross the whole Essence of God, nor is it able to contain it; so he acknowledgeth, 1 Kings 8.27. But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven, and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee how much less this house that I have builded? And these are some stammering notions about the Infiniteness of the great GOD.
USE 1. THIS tells us what a glorious Object for •aith, JEHOVAH is. How suitable an one he is for the Souls of men to place their affiance upon. He that is Infinite in his Essence, and unlimited in his perfections, that is Immense and Omnipresent, must needs infinitely outdo every other Object whatsoever: whatsoever vain men put their trust in is a finite good, but he is Infinite; a measurable good, but he is Immense; can be but in one place at once to help him; but he is Omnipresent. Who then would not ⟨p. 58⟩make choice of God to be his portion, and relinquish all others for him; how happy are they who have so done. Psal. 144. ult. Happy is that people that is in such a case: ye•, happy is that people whose God is the Lord Unlimited goodness is the portion of all those: others may measure & sum up their estate, but these never can
USE 1. THIS tells us what a glorious Object for •aith, JEHOVAH is. How sutable an one he is for the Souls of men to place their affiance upon. He that is Infinite in his Essence, and unlimited in his perfections, that is Immense and Omnipresent, must needs infinitely outdo every other Object whatsoever: whatsoever vain men put their trust in is a finite good, but he is Infinite; a measurable good, but he is Immense; can be but in one place at once to help him; but he is Omnipresent. Who then would not