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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 19 (Question 4 cont.)
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for tho' the Sun shall cease to be, by whose revolutions we are wont to count up the present Ages, yet the continuance of the Creatures duration not ceasing, its everlastingness must needs be progressive. 3. THEY have a passive power, rendering them capable also of an End: for tho' they have no tendency to mortality in their Natures, nor can the whole force of the Creation make any such impression on them, as to destroy their being; yet they are subject to him, who made them; and that God who created them, can also annihilate them; they are dependent Beings, and continue at the mere pleasure of their Creator: who, as he spake the word, and they were made, so can speak them back into nothing: yea, that they do not return to their nothing, is b••••• they are upheld by the word of his power, (Heb. 1.3.) And in this respect it is said that he any hath Immortality. (1 Tim. 1.16.) they live on his Courtesy.
for tho' the Sun shall cease to be, by whose revolutions we are wont to count up the present Ages, yet the continuance of the Creatures duration not ceasing, its everlastingness must needs be progressive. 3. THEY have a passive power, rendring them capable also of an End: for tho' they have no tendency to mortality in their Natures, nor can the whole force of the Creation make any such impression on them, as to destroy their being; yet they are subject to him, who made them; and that God who created them, can also annihilate them; they are dependent Beings, and continue at the meer pleasure of their Creator: who, as he spake the word, and they were made, so can speak them back into nothing: yea, that they do not return to their nothing, is b••••• they are upheld by the word of his power, (Heb. 1.3.) And in this respect it is said that he any hath Immortality. (1 Tim. 1.16.) they live on his Courtesy.