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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. MORE particularly, Let this Difference be observed,
1. HOLINESS is in God, his Nature, his Essence; whereas in the Creature it is but a Quality. We indeed ascribe it to him as a quality, according to our manner, but in reality he hath none; whatsoever is in God, is God. So that God, and his Holiness are one and the same; whereas the Creature, and its holiness are two distinct things; its essence is one thing, and its qualities another: and hence it is ascribed to God in the Abstract, to them but in the Concrete; they are said to be holy, but never to be Holiness; hence that, Psal. 89.35. Once have I sworn by my Holiness, that I will not lie unto David. Hence,
2. THE Divine properties belong to this Attribute in him; which put an unconceivable difference between him & the Creature's sanctity: for what God is in his Being, that he is in all his Perfections, which are his Being. Here then.