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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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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?
Hence learn; 1. THAT GOD is Immortal. This Attribute is ascribed to Him, 1 Tim 1.17. Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, •e honour & glory, for ever & ever, amen. And herein it appears to us; for He who lives of Himself cannot dye: And though Immortality doth actually belong to some Creatures, yet not so as to Him; He that gave their Life to them, is able to take it from them: Though they cannot dye by Dissolution, yet they may by Annihilation; And should he withdraw his Upholding Hand from them, they would return to their former Nothing; For this reason Immortality is restrained to Him, 1 Tim. 6.16