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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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II. HE is the True GOD. There are many False gods, that are so called by foolish and deceived Men; But this One God, this Living God is the True God: And it concerns us to know Him; for if we serve a False god, we have a False Trust, and False Hopes; But if we serve the True God, and in Truth, we shall have a True Happiness. And would we know Him from every other, we may take These Rules for our Direction.
1. THE True God, is the Everlasting First Being. If we worship any Being from the First, we worship an Idol: If there were any thing before it, that is not God: And this must be an Eternal Being: This is the Comfort which Mosts encourageth God's Israel withal, Deut. 33.27. The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms. And when God would set on his Consolations on his People with Efficacy, He presseth them with this Consideration, Isa. 44.•. Thus saith the Lord the king of Israel, and his redeemer the Lord of hosts, I am the first, and I am the last, and besides me there is no God.
2. THE True God is He who hath his Being in Himself, and received it of no other. O• Faith is not to live upon any one that hath ••• rowed his Being: He is Being it self, who i• God: And therefore when God sends Moses to tell Israel under the Tyranny of Egyptian Bondage, that He would come and work a Deliverance for them. He reveals Himself to them under that Name, I AM,