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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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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. Psal. 139.16. Thine eyes did see my s••slance yet being unperfect, and in thy book all my members were w••ten which in continuance were sa••i•••d, wh•n as yet there was none of them. He saw the Creation in its non-entity, Prov. 8.23, 25, 26. I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was. Before the meani•ins were settled; before the bills was I brought forth: While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields nor the highest •art of the dust of the world. And should it return to its nothingness again, he would be after it.
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 menure 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. Psal. 139.16. Thine eyes did see my s••slance yet being unperfect, and in thy book all my members were w••ten which in continuance were sa••i•••d, wh•n as yet there was none of them. He saw the Creation in its non-entity,