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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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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. Who only hath Immortality—. 2. THAT GOD is Independent. This Attribute is also implied in Scripture, Rom. 11.35. O• who hath ••st given to Him? And is argued from his being the Fountain of Life, Act. 17.25. Seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things. He lives of and therefore on Himself; He needs nothing to support Him; All his Life is at home; He is self sufficient. Our Dependence ariseth from our Derivation of all from Another: He then who derives nothing must be independent; He who gives all, and receives nothing, must needs be so; Thus doth God. 3. HENCE GOD must needs be his o•• Last End, and the Last End of all other Beings. If He lives of Himself, He can then look no farther than Himself; If He lives from Himself, he must needs live to Himself; and if all others live from Him, they ought to live to Him: The First Cause and the Last End cannot be diverse, but must be the same; These are therefore put together, Rom. 11.36. For of him, and through him, and to him are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen.
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 thô 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: Thô 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,