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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 31 (Question 6)
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SERMON XXXI.
QUESTION VI. HOW many PERSONS are there in the God-head? ANSWER. THERE are THREE PERSONS in the God-head, the FATHER, the SON, and the HOLY GHOST; and these Three are One God, the same in Substance, equal in Power and Glory.
THE Divine All-sufficiency displays it self unto us in God's Essence, and Subsistences: The former hath been already spoken to; the latter now follows: Under that we considered his Unity, in this we are to observe how this […] is Three. The Doctrine of a Trinity of Persons in the Unity of the Divine Essence, is one of the great Mysteries of Religion, and above the Comprehension of humane Understanding; It therefore requires us to search into it with Sobriety: It is an Article merely of Faith, and we must rest in the Discoveries which the Scripture gives us about it; not counting it our Wisdom to be wise above what is written. Our business is to enquire what The Word saith, to believe that it is true; and Faith must silence the Uprisings of Carnal Reason, that asks, How can these things be?
THE Divine Alsufficiency displays it self unto us in God's Essence, and Subsistences: The former hath been already spoken to; the latter now follows: Under that we considered his Unity, in this we are to observe how this 〈…〉 is Three. The Doctrine of a Trinity of Persons in the Unity of the Divine Essence, is one of the great Mysteries of Religion, and above the Comprehension of humane Understanding; It therefore requires us to search into it with Sobriety: It is an Article meerly of Faith, and we must rest in the Discoveries which the Scripture gives us about it; not counting it our Wisdom to be wise above what is written. Our business is to enquire what The Word saith, to believe that it is true; and Faith must silence the Uprisings of Carnal Reason, that asks, How can these things be?