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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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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.
1. EXTRINSECALLY; 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.
2. INTRINSICALLY; And that is referrible to the Being, and essential perfections of the thing; in which it is more properly said to change, and these are the things that this Attribute is peculiarly predicated of which now come under our consideration.
2. INTRINSECALLY; And that is referrible to the Being, and essential perfections of the thing; in which it is more properly said to change, and these are the things that this Attribute is peculiarly predicated of which now come under our consideration.
1. UNCHANGEABLENESS is God; This also is •ne of those Incommunicable properties, which the Creatures share not with him i, a title which is, Prerogative belonging alone to the first being […] is a flower of his Crown: Examine all second beings, and they are the subjects of Change; not to mention the Creatures here below, which are every day changing faces and habits; the very Clestsal bodies, the heavens and those great lights there, time & change do rule them: Heathen Philosophers thought them Immutable, as being Incorruptible; but the Scripture contradicts them, and herein makes it appear that they are not God;