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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 20 (Question 4 cont.)
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SERMON XX.
3. GOD is Unchangeable. This is the last of the Divine qualities mentioned in the Description: In clearing up of this Attribute, we may first enquire into the Nature of it, and then give the evidence that God is Immutable. Of God's Unchangeableness take this Description: It is God without any possibility of any kind of change: It is that whereby God is ever the same that he ever was. Things may be said to be mutable in diverse respects: and all these are to be removed from our conceptions of God: Mutable things are so either in outward or inward respects, Extrinsically, or Intrinsically.
3. GOD is Unchangeable. This is the last of the Divine qualities mentioned in the Description: In clearing up of this Attribute, we may first enquire into the Nature of it, and then give the evidence that God is Immutable. Of God's Unchangableness take this Description: It is God without any possibility of any kind of change: It is that whereby God is ever the same that he ever was. Things may be said to be mutable in diverse respects: and all these are to be removed from our conceptions of God: Mutable things are so either in outward or inward respects, Extrinsecally, or Intrinsically.
1. EXTRINSICALLY; And here the more observable Changes, are either in relation to time or place; those things that have time go over them are changed, for time it self makes an outward change in them; and a motion from place to place is a change external, neither of those can be ascribed to God; and therefore upon the er account he is Eternal, on the latter he is Infinite; these belong to the Attribute already considered.