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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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First, THE Unity of the Divine Essence is here asserted: There is but ONE God. This is a Foundation Principle of the Christian Religion, 1 Cor. 8.4, 5, 6. — There is none other God but one. For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (a• there be gods many, and lords many) But to us there is but one God—. The Heathen worshipped many Gods: Though they had some Notion of a Deity, yet they divided and crumbled it in pieces, distributing it to every thing that did them good, Sun, Moon, Stars, Rivers, Fountains, Elements, Brutes, Vegetatives: Yea, they increased their Gods according to the Number of their Cities: Yea they had their Tutelar Gods, their Household Gods, their Gods for all particular Callings, Concerns, Diseases: We have an Account in Gentile Antiquity of Thirty Thousand of them: The Romans had their Pantheon, a Temple in which all the Gods of the Nations were Worshipped, the True God excepted: And tho' the true Religion acknowledgeth but One, and no more, yet even among those that have professed Christianity, the […], and […], and […], made T••, one the Author of Good, the other of Evil; and the •r•t•enes, for the Trinity of Persons, have surrogated Three Gods: It is therefore necessary to be well-grounded in this Article: And if our Faith will give Credit to the Divine Testimony, we need look no farther for Proof; the Scripture every where asserting it: See Deut. •.4. Hear, O Israel, The Lord our God is one Lord. Psal. 8•.18. That men may know, that then whose name alone is JEHOVAH. art the most high […] all the earth. God denies himself to have ••y Corrival. Deut. 4 35. Unto thee it was showed, that thou mightest know that the Lord he is God, there is none else besides him. Isa. 44.8. — Is there a God besides me? you, there is […] God, I know not any. Ch. 45.4.1. I am the Lord, and there is none else, there is no God besides me: — There is no God else beside me, a […] God and a saviour, there is none beside me. And […] he will part with none of […] Glory,