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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. 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.
1. GOD's Holiness is Infinite, the Creature's finite. Among them there are some that have more than others; but he that hath most, hath a poor little to what he hath. Angels among second beings excel in this as in other Perfections; how often are they called holy ones; but alas, when they come into his holy presence, they all veil and cover their faces and feet, as being ashamed of themselves: they glorify God ⟨p. 73⟩with their whole might, but not up to his desert: but it is an Infinite, unmeasurable Sanctity that God possesseth; for he loves himself with an Infinite love, and is therefore called love it self, 1 Joh. 4 8. and his Holiness cannot be better expressed, than in his loving himself with the choicest love, and loving other things for himself.
1. GOD's Holiness is Infinite, the Creature's finite. Among them there are some that have more than others; but he that hath most, hath a poor little to what he hath. Angels among second beings excell in this as in other Perfections; how often are they called holy ones; but alas, when they come into his holy presence, they all veil and cover their faces and feet, as being ashamed of themselves: they glorify God ⟨p. 73⟩with their whole might, but not up to his desert: but it is an Infinite, unmeasurable Sanctity that God possesseth; for he loves himself with an Infinite love, and is therefore called love it self, 1 Joh. 4 8. and his Holiness cannot be better expressed, than in his loving himself with the choisest love, and loving other things for himself.