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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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THERE are Three Heads to which the Answer may be reduced, 1. The Distinction of the God-head into the Persons in it. 2. The Names of these Persons. 3. Their Unity & Parity in the God-head. A brief reflection of these will help our Faith in a right Conception of this Doctrine.
First, THE Distinction of the God-head, into the Persons in it; This One •s Three. In ⟨p. 98⟩the right stating of this, we may gather out of Scripture These Conclusions,
I. THAT in the Divine Essence, there are certain Divine Subsistences. The word Subsistence is used, Heb. 1.3. translated Person: It signifies a standing under. Though there be but One God, yet that One God subsists in a diverse Manner; or the Essence stands under a different respect to it self: Though God be but One, yet He is more than One, he is Three; not Three Gods, but Three Manners of Being are in this One God. This Unity of Being and Plurality of Persons, are plainly asserted in, 1 Joh. 5.7. For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. That this is so, we are therefore to believe; How it is, though many have essayed to shadow it to us by earthly Similitudes, yet none have reached it: Humane Reason must be here silent and wonder: But,