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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 29 (Question 4 cont.)
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THE one Truth admits of various Notions which are put upon it; but when it is applied to God, it use ally comes under one of these T•• s••ses either, 1. As it is applied to his Being, on which account he is said to be the True God, in opposition to all the feigned and made ones of the Gentile• to all Idols; but this is not here to be considered, but will come under the following Question. Or, 2. As it is looked upon as 1 […], in Men. Truth may be considered Obje••••ely, and so it relates to the Understanding, whose proper Object is Truth: and then it imply: a Knowledge of things as they are; and this when Attributed to God, belongs to his Omniscience, and is accounted a Virtue of his Understanding, of which we have already heard under his Wisdom: Or it may be considered Subjectively as it is a Property inherent in the Subject, and then it is a Virtue of the Will, and it comprise him […] those two Virtues of Faithfulness and Constancy: True and Faithful are therefore of••• joined together in Scripture Language: and thus it is often ascribed to God, after the […] of Men: and in this sense we may take up this Description of it:
THE one Truth admits of various Notions which are put upon it; but when it is applied to God, it use ally comes under one of these T•• s••ses either, 1. As it is applied to his Being, on which account he is said to be the True God, in opposition to all the feigned and made ones of the Gentile• to all Idols; but this is not here to be considered, but will come under the following Question. Or, 2. As it is looked upon as 1 〈…〉, in Men. Truth may be considered Obje••••ely, and so it relates to the Understanding, whose proper Object is Truth: and then it implie: a Knowledge of things as they are; and this when Attributed to God, belongs to his Omniscience, and is accounted a Vertue of his Understanding, of which we have already heard under his Wisdom: Or it may be considered Subj••tively as it is a Property inherent in the Subject, and then it is a Vertue of the Will, and it comprie him those two Vertues of Faithfulness and Constancy: True and Faithful are therefore of joyned together in Scripture Language: and thus it is often ascribed to God, after the of Men: and in this sense we may take up this Description of it: