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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. GOD the Son is a Divine Person Begotten of the Father. See, Joh. 1.14. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father) —. Heb. 1.5. For unto which of the Angels said •e at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son. Prov. 8.24, 25. When there were no depths, I was brought forth: when there were no fountains abounding with water. Before the mountains were settled; before the hills was I brought forth. Passive Generation is the Son's Manner of Subsisting; and hence to be Begotten, and not to Beget is his Relative Property: For this reason he is called The Bright Image of his Father's Person, Heb. 1.3. The word signifies a derived Light: For tho' as He is God, He is of Himself; yet an He is Son, He is of the Father.
3. THE Holy Ghost is a Divine Person Proceeding from the Father and Son. Joh. 14.26. But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you. Chap. 15.26. But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me. It is hard for us to conceive of the Difference between the Nature of the Son's Generation, and the Spirit's Procession; But this the Scripture certifies us of, that as the Son is from the Father alone, so the Spirit is from Them Both; and for this reason He is not only called the Spirit of the Father, but of the Son too,