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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 34 (Question 9)
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NOW, that the World had a Beginning may be proved evidently to us, not only by clear Scripture-Testimony, which assures as of it, Gen. 1.1. In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And tells of things which were before the World was, Joh. 17.5. Prov. 8.23. &c. But also by convincing Arguments. For,
1. ETERNITY is ascribed unto God, as His alone Prerogative, See, Psal. 90.2. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world: even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. Col. 1.17. He is before all things—. 1. Tim. 1.17. Now unto the King Eternal, &c. Now that which is not Eternal, must needs be Temporary, for these two are opposites; that which is not Eternal is a Subject of Time. Now Time is nothing else but a Measure of the Creature's Duration; and being a Measure, it must have its Limits. A thing which hath it's Measures, must be followed up to its Beginning, where the Measure is at an end; if it have none, it is Immense. But,
1. ETERNITY is ascribed unto God, as His alone Prerogative, See, Psal. 90.2. Before the mountains were brought sorth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world: even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. Col. 1.17. He is before all things—. 1. Tim. 1.17