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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]
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AN EXPOSITION OF THE ASSEMBLY's SHORTER CATECHISM: IN Two Hundred a… › Sermon 19 (Question 4 cont.)
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NOW from the consideration of these revolutions of time, we observe a threefold respect with […] up […] the thing: from whence if […] into past, present and to come. […] the time which the thing hath ru••• […] Existence till the point in which it […] past through', and left it behind it. Time […] is the season just before the Creature […] or that Individual moment of Existence, which is just now in being. Time to come is that which remains of the allotted duration of it, till the last sand be run out, and it shall have no more to do with this being or existence. In these respects we say of the Creature, that yesterday is gone, to day is present, to morrow is to come; and we can in no sense bring yesterday and to morrow to commence with to day. Hence also things are said to be either young or old, according to the number of days or years that have gone over them since they entered upon the stage. These are the more observable considerations about time; the negation of these things will tell us what Eternity is, or at least what it is not; and when we apply them to any subject, we therein declare it to be Eternal. In the Description therefore of God's Eternity, we remove from him all those notions that are applicable to time. Hence there are three things in the Description, which will engross all that hath been said, by way of remotion.
NOW from the consideration of these revolutions of time, we observe a threefold respect with 〈…〉 up 〈…〉 the thing: from whence if 〈…〉 into past, present and to come. 〈…〉 the time which the thing hath ru••• 〈…〉 Existence till the point in which it 〈…〉 past thro', and left it behind it. Time 〈…〉 is the season just before the Creature 〈…〉 or that Individual moment of Existence, which is just now in being. Time to come is that which remains of the allotted duration of it, till the last sand be run out, and it shall have no more to do with this being or existence. In these respects we say of the Creature, that yesterday is gone, to day is present, to morrow is to come; and we can in no sense bring yesterday and to morrow to commence with to day. Hence also things are said to be either young or old, according to the number of days or years that have gone over them since they entred upon the stage. These are the more observable considerations about time; the negation of these things will tell us what Eternity is, or at least what it is not; and when we apply them to any subject, we therein declare it to be Eternal. In the Description therefore of God's Eternity, we remove from him all those notions that are applicable to time. Hence there are three things in the Description, which will engross all that hath been said, by way of remotion.