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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. THEIR Unity: They are One God, the same in Substance: This is evident from the Consideration of Two Things.
1. THAT God is but One pure and individed Essence. That there is but One God hath been already proved; and to this Oneness of His belongs the Simplicity of his Essence, that it admits of no Division; There can be no Partition ⟨p. 100⟩made in the God-head, because it hath no Parts neither potential nor actual. 2. THAT these Three Divine Persons are all of them God. This also hath full and clear Evidence from Scripture-Testimony: That Person, to whom the Titles, Names, and Incommunicable Attributes and Works of God are ascribed in Scripture, He is God. All these we shall find asserted of Each of these Persons in particular.
1. CONCERNING the Father. In the Old Testament, Gen. 1.2. So Psal 33.6. i. e. in respect of the Spirit: And in the New Testament, Rom. 15.6. 1. Tim. 1.2, 17. Chap. 6.15, 16. Matth. 19.17. 2. Cor. 6.18. But because none but Atheists question the Father's Deity, no more need be said of that.