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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 35 (Question 9 cont.)
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2. IT is God's Holy Habitation: So called, Is•. •2.15. It is his Palace or Throne, Psal. 23. 12, 14. Not that His Infinite Essence is here comprehended; but partly because it is the most Glorious Place in the World, hence most suitable to be His Throne, Isa. 66.1. partly, because here He makes most of his Glory known; here Saints see b••• as be is, 1 Joh. 3.2. It is therefore an Holy Place; both for it's Native Purity, having never been defiled by Sin; 1 Pet. 1.4. Tis an Inhabitance undef•od; therefore the n•w Devils, once Angels, fell not there, Heaven not admi•ing any pollution into it, Rev. 21.27. And because it is consecrated by God, to be His Dwelling place; 2 Chron. 30. •lt. — His Holy dwelling place, even Heaven.
3. It was hath by God Himself in the first •• •ent of Time. Hence that, 2 Cor. 5 1.—We have a Building of God—. And so, Heb. 11.10. Gen. 1.1