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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 30 (Question 5)
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1. HE acts with the greatest Light. His Life is most transcendently intellectual; surpassing our Comprehension: Hence his Thoughts which he makes known to his People are most wonderful, Psal. 40.5. Many, O Lord my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward. And yet the World hath but some Rays of this shining in it: and tho' the Angels and glorified Saints shall dwell in great Light, such as is beyond our present Conception, yet His transcends them all, 1 Tim. 6.16. — Dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto, whom no man hath seen, nor can see—.
2. HE acts with greatest Delight. Some define a Rational Life to be an act with delight: The damned have the Light of Reason, but it is with Sorrow, and therefore they are said to Die: The glorified enjoy complete Satisfaction, and in that regard are said to Live: But God's Happiness is infinite; his Pleasures can receive no Accession, no Contribution from the Creatures. Job 22.2, 3. Can a man be profitable unto God? — Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? or is it gain to him, that thou •••est thy ways perfect?
2. HE acts with greatest Delight. Some define a Rational Life to be an act with delight: The damned have the Light of Reason, but it is with Sorrow, and therefore they are said to Dy: The glorified enjoy compleat Satisfaction, and in that regard are said to Live: But God's Happiness is infinite; his Pleasures can receive no Accession, no Contribution from the Creatures. Job 22.2, 3. Can a man be profitable unto God? — Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? or is it gain to him, that thou •••est thy ways perfect?