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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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4. ALL the Divine Attributes prove that there is but One God. God hath revealed himself to us in and by his glorious Perfections: If then we acknowledge none to be God, but Him to whom these so belong, we must conclude that there is but One: There are indeed some Attributes that we call Communicable, a Shadow of which is in the Creature; such are the Divine Virtues, as Wisdom, Holiness, &c. But then, if we consider, that they belong to the Creature only in the […], to the Deity in the Abstract, and consequently in the Superlative, they can so appertain but to One: There may be many Wise, but […] it self is but One: There may be Holy O•es, but the most Holy cannot be more then One. As to the Incommunicable Perfections, it is impossible that they should be multiplied; and this more essentially carries conviction to his Infinity: It belongs to God to be Immense […]; but this inseparably belongs to Unity: The Notion of two Infinites being contradictory to all rational Conceptions; For if there be two, they must confine each other, and so neither be Infinite, &c.
4. ALL the Divine Attributes prove that there is but One God. God hath revealed himself to us in and by his glorious Perfections: If then we acknowledge none to be God, but Him to whom these so belong, we must conclude that there is but One: There are indeed some Attributes that we call Communicable, a Shadow of which is in the Creature; such are the Divine Vertues, as Wisdom, Holiness, &c. But then, if we consider, that they belong to the Creature only in the 〈…〉, to the Deity in the Abstract, and consequently in the Superlative, they can so appertain but to One: There may be many Wise, but 〈…〉 it self is but One: There may be Holy O•es, but the most Holy cannot be more then One. As to the Incommunicable Perfections, it is impossible that they should be multiplyed; and this more essentially carries conviction to his Infinity: It belongs to God to be Immense 〈…〉; but this inseparably belongs to Unity: The Notion of two Infinites being contradictory to all rational Conceptions; For if there be two, they must confine each other, and so neither be Infinite, &c.