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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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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, Rom. 8.9. But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. Gal. 4.6. And because ye are sons, God hath sent the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. Procession therefore is His Manner of Subsisting; and His Relative Property is to Proceed from Both.
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 preceedeth from the Father, he shall testifie 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, Rom. 8.9. But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.