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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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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, Exod. 3.14. And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: And he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you. That which is but a little Crumb or Particle of Being, cannot be a God to us, nor is to be acknowledged as such by us.
3. THE True God is the Author & Cr••• of all other Beings. He is no God that hath […] made the World, and every thing in it: God therefore often reveals himself to his People by this Consideration, and proves Himself to be God by it, Isa. 45.5,—13. So, Isa. 44.24. Th•• saith the Lord thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the Lord that maketh all things, that stretcheth forth the heavens […] that spreadeth abroad the earth by my self. And on this consideration he casts Contempt upon […] the Heathen gods; Jer. 10.11. Thus shall ye […] unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens & the earth, even they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens. They are gods of no Value.
3. THE True God is the Author & Cr••• of all other Beings. He is no God that hath made the World, and every thing in it: God therefore often reveals himself to his People by this Consideration, and proves Himself to be God by it,