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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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then there is in the Divine Essence a Material Principle, and that Divisible and capable of Generation & Corruption; & then the Creature proceeds from God Naturally and not Voluntarily, Eternally and not in Time: All which are ••sphe••s Cencl•si••s, and altogether repugnant to the Nature of God. 2. IF we suppose it to be a Creature, then it must have an Original, and thence it must have 2 Time when it began to be before which it was not; and therefore that matter must ultimately be made of Nothing; for to suppose a pre-existent Matter of that Matter, is not to evade the Intri•ary, but to make it more entangled: So that of necessity, our Contemplation of these things must ultimately resolve it self here, viz. That all things came firstly •ut of Nothing: And why should it be thought Impossible with God, (with whom all things are Possible,) to give a Being to the things that were Not, because we imp•t••• Creatures cannot comprehend it, since he is able to do more than we can think?
then there is in the Divine Essence a Material Principle, and that Divisible and capable of Generation & Corruption; & then the Creature proceeds from God Naturally and not Voluntarily, Etermily and not in Time: All which are ••sphe••s Cencl•si••s, and altogether rep•gnant to the Nature of God. 2. IF we suppose it to be a Creature, then it must have an Original, and thence it must have 2 Time when it began to be before which it was not; and therefore that matter must ultimately be made of Nothing; for to suppose a pre-existent Matter of that Matter, is not to evade the Intri•ary, but to make it more entangled: So that of necessity, our Con•emplation of these things must ultimately resolve it self here, viz. That all things came firstly ut of Nothing: And why should it be thought Impossible with God, (with whom all things are Possible,) to give a Being to the things that were Not, because we impt Creatures cannot comprehend it, since he is able to do more than we can think?