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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 23 (Question 4 cont.)
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[2.] IN that singular respect Holiness belongs is God?
Answ. BECAUSE the Virtues of God are said to be Communit••• i. e. That there is something like to them is be found in some Creatures, and which have the same denomination put upon them. We ought to observe the difference; […] exemplification whereof we may take in this of Holiness, which may be applied to his Wisdom, Power, &c. Here then,
Answ. BECAUSE the Vertues of God are said to be Communit••• i. e. That there is something like to them is be found in some Creatures, and which have the same denomination put upon them. We ought to observe the ditierence; 〈…〉 exemplification whereof we may take in this of Holiness, which may be applied to his Wisdom, Power, &c. Here then,
1. IN general, God is transcendently […] surpassingly holy. There are none in Heaven […] Earth that are like him for Holiness; hence that, 1 Sam. 2.2. There is none holy as the Lord. For this reason he is said to be th•ce holy, Isa. 6.3. And to be Glorious in holiness, Exod 15.11. The greatest purity of the most spotless Beings in the Creation, is unholiness compared with his; Job 14.16. &c 15.15. Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight. But,