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A Body of Practical Divinity
A body of practical divinity consisting of above one hundred seventy six sermons on the lesser catechism composed by the reverend assembly of divines at Westminster : with a supplement of some sermons on several texts of Scripture / by Thomas Watson ...
London: printed for Thomas Parkurst, 1692
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In the work of the Creation there are two things to be considered: The making of it The adorning of it.
I. The making of the World. Here consider, 1. God made the World without any preexistent Matter. This is the difference between Generation and Creation. In Generation there is materia habilis & disposita, some Matter to work upon. But in Creation there is no preexistent Matter. God brought all this glorious Fabric of the World out of the Womb of Nothing. We see our Beginning, it was of Nothing. Some brag of their Birth and Ancestry, you see how little cause they have to boast, they came of Nothing.
I. The making of the World. Here consider, 1. God made the World without any praeexistent Matter. This is the difference between Generation and Creation. In Generation there is materia habilis & disposita, some Matter to work upon. But in Creation there is no praeexistent Matter. God brought all this glorious Fabrick of the World out of the Womb of Nothing. We see our Beginning, it was of Nothing. Some brag of their Birth and Ancestry, you see how little cause they have to boast, they came of Nothing.
2. God made the World with a Word. When Solomon was to build a Temple he needed many Workmen, and they all had Tools to work with, but God wrought without Tools, Psal. 33.6. By the word of the Lord were the Heavens made. The Disciples wondered that Christ could with a word calm the Sea, Matth. 8.26, 27. But it was more with a word to make the Sea.