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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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II. THAT wherein they Differ one from the other, is especially in these Three Things; 1. THEY Differ in the Order of their Original in the Divine Nature. And that is in one Persons being from another; For according to their Processions and Relations, such is their Order; The Father is the First, &c. And we may not invert this Order: The Father is not of Another, and Another is from Him; The Son is of Another, and from him together with the Father, is Another; The Holy Ghost is from Others, viz. The Father and Son, and from Him is not Another; which Order is not an Order of Duration, or Dignity, or Causality, nor Nature; But only of Original. 2. THEY differ in their Personal Properties. i. e. Those Incommunicable Properties which belong to one Person, and not to any of the other: From whence it follows that one Person cannot be another; The Father cannot be the Son, &c. Tho' he that hath seen the Son, hath seen the Father, Joh. 14.9. 3. THEY differ in their Manner of Working: Because that flows from their Manner of Subsisting: The Father worketh of Himself, the Son from the Father, the Holy Ghost from both Father and Son, Joh. 5.19. Then answered Jesus, and said unto them, Verily verily I say unto you, the Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise. Ch. 16.13. Howbeit, when he the Spirit of truth is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will show you things to come.
II. THAT wherein they Differ one from the other, is especially in these Three Things; 1. THEY Differ in the Order of their Original in the Divine Nature. And that is in one Persons being from another; For according to their Processions and Relations, such is their Order; The Father is the First, &c. And we may not invert this Order: The Father is not of Another, and Another is from Him; The Son is of Another, and from him together with the Father, is Another; The Holy Ghost is from Others, viz. The Father and Son, and from Him is not Another; which Order is not an Order of Duration, or Dignity, or Causality, nor Nature; But only of Original. 2. THEY differ in their Personal Properties. i. e. Those Incommunicable Properties which belong to one Person, and not to any of the other: From whence it follows that one Person cannot be another; The Father cannot be the Son, &c. Tho' he that hath seen the Son, hath seen the Father,