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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 23 (Question 4 cont.)
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SERMON XXIII.
3. ANOTHER of the Divine Virtues expressed, is his Holiness. This is […] of those Attributes, which hath a glo•i••• display in the works of Efficiency: It is also […] of them which are called communicable Perfections, because there is the Image of it in Angels & Saints: but it belongs to him Originally, and transcendently. Here therefore we may enquire, 1. Into the Nature of this Attribute. 2. In what singular respects it belongs to him 3. Wherein the displays of it are especially to be observed.
3. ANOTHER of the Divine Vertues expressed, is his Endliness. This is 〈…〉 of those Attributes, which hath a glo•i••• display in the works of Efficiency: It is also 〈…〉 of them which are called communicable Perfections, because there is the Image of it in Angels & Saints: but it belongs to him Originally, and transcendently. Here therefore we may enquire, 1. Into the Nature of this Attribute. 2. In what singular respects it belongs to him 3. Wherein the displays of it are especially to be observed.
[1.] OF Holiness take this Description; It is God bound for himself & his own glory, as his last End. Holiness in the largest sense may serve to set God forth absolutely Perfect, in his Being; and so it comprehends all the Attributes under it: but looking on it as a distinct Perfection, and so it respects the Divine Purity. God's Holiness may be considered, either, as it is Essential, and so it is his spotless Glory; hence said to be Glorious in Holiness,