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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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I. FOR their Description.
1. GOD the Father is a Divine Person, Begetting the Son. Active Generation shows the Father's Manner of Subsisting: What this Generation is, the Word of God forbids our over curious Enquiring; Isa. 53.8. — And who shall declare his generation? — But this is the Father's Relative Property: It is not an Essential Act, for then it were common to them all; But it is Personal; To Beget, and not to be Begotten, belongs to the Father as He is Father, Psal. 3.7. I will declare the decree: the Lord hath said unto me, Thou art my son, this day have I begotten thee. Hence, tho' He is not the Fountain of the Deity, yet He is the Original of the Persons, and the Fountain of all Blessedness: Eph. 1.3. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ.
1. GOD the Father is a Divine Person, Begetting the Son. Active Generation shews the Father's Manner of Subsisting: What this Generation is, the Word of God forbids our over curious Enquiring; Isa. 53.8. — And who shall declare his generation? — But this is the Father's Relative Property: It is not an Essential Act, for then it were common to them all; But it is Personal; To Beget, and not to be Begotten, belongs to the Father as He is Father, Psal. 3.7. I will declare the decree: the Lord hath said unto me, Thou art my son, this day have I begotten thee. Hence, tho' He is not the Fountain of the Deity, yet He is the Original of the Persons, and the Fountain of all Blessedness: Eph. 1.3. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ.