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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]
printed by B. Green and S. Kneeland for B. Eliot and D. Henchman, 1726
AN EXPOSITION OF THE ASSEMBLY's SHORTER CATECHISM: IN Two Hundred a… › Sermon 31 (Question 6)
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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.
2. CONCERNING God the Son. The Scripture holds forth his Deity plentifully: In the Old Testament He is called, JEHOVAH, Gen. 18.14, 17, 20. Eternal, Psal. 110.4. Prov. 8.12. to 31. Omnipotent, Isa. 9.6. Judge, Gen. 18.25. The Object of Divine Worship, Psal. 45.11. God from Eternity, Joh. 1.1. Blessed Eternally, Rom. 9.5. Creator, Heb. 1.2, 10. Eternal Governor, Ver. 8. Wrought Miracles in his own Name, Luk 5.13. Knows the Heart, Chap. 6.8. Forgiveth Sin,