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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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[2] FOR the evidencing of this Attribute, or making it appear that God is Eternal. Tho' Scripture-Testimony is enough to establish an Article of Faith, (in which besides, Psal. 90.2. 92.8. 102.27. Joh. 8.78. there are many more) yet there are other Cogent Arguments, to evince it. God must needs be Eternal.
1. BECAUSE God is an absolute and necessary Being, and with at all C••s••. Absolute Being is Eternal: that which once was not, & now is, must have an Efficient to give being to it, it could not be its own Author; and hence all timed beings are Causate. Hence […] his Eternity from his Absolute being. Joh. 8.58. Jesus said unto them, Verily verily I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.
1. BECAUSE God is an absolute and necessary Being, and with at all C••s••. Absolute Being is Eternal: that which once was not, & now is, must have an Efficient to give being to it, it could not be its own Author; and hence all timed beings are Causate. Hence 〈…〉 his Eternity from his Absolute being. Joh. 8.58. Jesus said unto them, Verily verily I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.
2. BECAUSE he was before time. and there was nothing before that but Eternity. If He was when no Created being was. He was before time; for this as we heard, is the measure of the Creatures duration, and is therefore inseparable from it. God was before the World was, yea before that bing or privation which was before it.