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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 24 (Question 4 cont.)
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4. JUSTICE is the next of the Divine Virtues, offered to our consideration. Justice, as was before observed concerning Holiness, may come under a double consideration, viz. either as it is essential in him, and then it is nothing else but the rectitude of his Nature; or as it is relation to the Creature; and because I shall speak to it in this last sense, we may take this Descriptional of it:
4. JUSTICE is the next of the Divine Vertues, offered to our consideration. Justice, as was before observed concerning Holiness, may come under a double consideration, viz. either as it is essential in him, and then it is nothing else but the rectitude of his Nature; or as it is relation to the Creature; and because I shall speak to it in this last sense, we may take this Descriptional of it:
JUSTICE is God •••hned to render to every one their due, according to Rule. And this is that which doth eminently shine forth in his works of Efficiency; particularly in his Administration of the Government of the World: and because there are some foot-steps of this Virtue to be found in some Reasonable Creatures, we may from thence be a little helped in our Conceptions of it.
JUSTICE is God •••hned to render to every one their dae, according to Rule. And this is that which doth eminently shine forth in his works of Efficiency; particularly in his Administration of the Government of the World: and because there are some foot-steps of this Vertue to be found in some Reasonable Creatures, we may from thence be a little helped in our Conceptions of it.
JUSTICE among Men, is usually ranked under two heads, viz. Commutative and Distributive: It is the latter of these which comes nearest to the discovery of the Relative Justice of God to us, because the dispensation of it belongs properly to his Gubernation. Commutative Justice argues some equality between Persons; whereas distributive Justice is dispensed between unequals; or is the Administration of a Superior to Inferiors.