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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. THEIR Parity: They are Equal in Power and Glory. And this follows from the former: For if they be all the same God, they must be so; For God is not above or below Himself. Hence that, Phil. 2.6. Who being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God. And Joh. 5.23. That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. — If they are Co-essential, they must be Co-equal. And there are several Things in which this Equality appears: 1. THEY are Equal in Existence; being Coexistent; Joh. 14.11. Believe me, that I am in the Father, and the Father in me—. They are one in another, and one is as much God as the other: Each is God of Himself, and not God of God: Ones Subsistence is not derived from another's Essence; For if so, then the Son should Beget Himself, and the Spirit Breath Himself. 2. THEY are Equal in Duration. They are Co-eternal. Each is God, and God is not Older than Himself: Every one is from Everlasting to Everlasting, and there are no Ages in ••• nity, Joh. 1.1, 2. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. Isa. 9.6. For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called, Wonderful, Counsellor, the mighty God, the everlasting Father, the Prince of peace. 3. THEY are Equal in Operation: All the Works of Efficiency are done by them jointly: They are all the Works of God; flowing from the Essence, which they are alike concerned in: All Three made the World, Psal. 33.6. By the word of the Lord were the heavens made: and all the host of them by the Breath of his mouth. Christ doth the same Works that the Father doth; Joh. 5.19. — For what things soever He doeth, thes• also doeth the Son likewise. 4. THEY are Equal in Honour: Divine Honour is due to them all, and that alike;