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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 28 (Question 4 cont.)
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(2.) CONSIDER the Subject in relation to God; and there we shall see the Excellency of this Grace, in that he doth all this for one whom God hath no need of: He saves none because he could not otherwise have done with them. For,
1. HE was happy & blessed in Himself from Eternity: He lived without them or any other second being, when no World was; and so he should have done, if no World had been: His name is, God Blessed forever; He gives all to, receives nothing from the Creature.
2. HE had an Innumerable Company of blessed Angels to sing Everlasting Hallelujahs to his Praise: In these he would have been glorified forever; D••. •.10. — Thousand thousands minister unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him —.
3. HE had the Residue of the Spirit, Mal. .15. He was not tied to this Race of Men: […] had seen meet to be honoured by such a sort of Creature, he could but have said it, and the Stones should have risen up Children of Abraham,