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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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2. THE Word of God also confines this Plurality to the Number of Three: Some Footstep of this there are in the Old Testament; Psal. 33.•. By the word of the Lord were the heavens […] and all the host of them by the breath of his […] Psal. 67.6, 7. Then shall the earth yield her increase; and God, even our own God shall bless us. God shall bless us, and all the ends of the earth shall fear him. Isa. 6.3. And one cried unto another and said, Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts, the whole earth is full of his glory. But more clearly and positively is asserted in the New Testament, Matth. •.16, 17. And Jesus when he was baptised, went up straightway out ⟨p. 99⟩of the water: and lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him. And lo, a voice from heaven, saying thy is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Matth. 28.19. Go ye therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. 2 Cor. 13.14. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ; and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen. 1 Joh. 5.7. For there are Three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost —.
2. THE Word of God also confines this Plurality to the Number of Three: Some Footstep of this there are in the Old Testament; Psal. 33.•. By the word of the Lord were the heavens 〈…〉 and all the host of them by the breath of his 〈…〉