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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 30 (Question 5)
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SERMON XXX.
QUESTION V. ARE there more Gods than ONE? ANSWER. THERE is but ONE ONLY, the LIVING and TRUE GOD.
IT is of Infinite Concernment, that we be rightly fixed on the Object of Worship; for if it be not such an one as can make us happy, our Religion is vain. That this must be a God, the Light of Nature discovers, and therefore all Nations do acknowledge it: But yet how woefully have they mist it, through their vain Imaginations, by reason of the Darkness on their Minds, whilst they have sought to Gods that cannot save? That we may not be mistaken in this, which is as much as our Life; after the Description of God by his Attributes, in the former Question, our Catechism in this leads us to some further Discoveries of Him: In which, 1. It re•••eth •s is an Unity, •••aring us that there is but ONE. 2. P•••ts us to some Discriminating Notes by which we may know Him, and not take another for him; and these are T••, 1. He is the LIVING. 2. He is the TRUE God. For the help of our Faith, these things may be briefly opened.
IT is of Infinite Concernment, that we be rightly fixed on the Object of Worship; for if it be not such an one as can make us happy, our Religion is vain. That this must be a God, the Light of Nature discovers, and therefore all Nations do acknowledge it: But yet how wofully have they mist it, through their vain Imaginations, by reason of the Darkness on their Minds, whilst they have sought to Gods that cannot save? That we may not be mistaken in this, which is as much as our Life; after the Description of God by his Attributes, in the former Question, our Catechism in this leads us to some further Discoveries of Him: In which, 1. It reeth s is an Unity, aring us that there is but ONE. 2. Pts us to some Discriminating Notes by which we may know Him, and not take another for him; and these are T, 1. He is the LIVING. 2. He is the TRUE God. For the help of our Faith, these things may be briefly opened.