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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. IT is Eternal. He is the Eternal God, and he never was without his Holiness; it is impossible that God should be, and not be holy, whereas Creatures once were not, there was a time when they began to be, & they could not be holy before they were; and there is a vast disproportion between that which is Eternal & what is temporary. God's Holiness having no beginning, can have no end; the Creatures that once were […] may […] be. Some indeed shall never actually cease, but they have a possibility. Hence,
2. IT is Eternal. He is the Eternal God, and he never was without his Holiness; it is impossible that God should be, and not be holy, whereas Creatures once were not, there was a time when they began to be, & they could not be holy before they were; and there is a vast disproportion between that which is Eternal & what is temporary. God's Holiness having no beginning, can have no end; the Creatures that once were 〈…〉 may 〈…〉 be. Some indeed shall never actually cease, but they have a possibility. Hence,
3. GOD is Unchangeably holy. He cannot lose his, but the Creature may part with its purity. God's Holiness being himself is inseparable from him; but the Creatures being a quality, may be separated, though its Being continue: there are some natural qualities of things, which cleave so close, that the removal of them destroys their being; but all moral perfections in the Creatures may be lost: a woeful instance of it we have in fallen Angels and Men, who are become altogether corrupt and defiled by Sin: and on these accounts God is said only to be holy; Rev. 15.4. Thou only art holy—.
3. GOD is Unchangably holy. He cannot lose his, but the Creature may part with its purity. God's Holiness being himself is inseparable from him; but the Creatures being a quality, may be separated, though its Being continue: there are some natural qualities of things, which cleave so close, that the removal of them destroys their being; but all moral perfections in the Creatures may be lost: a wofull instance of it we have in fallen Angels and Men, who are become altogether corrupt and defiled by Sin: and on these accounts God is said only to be holy;