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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 36 (Question 9 cont.)
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2. THE Element of Air, is described in it's Creation, under the Title of the Firmament, Gen. 1.6, 7, 8. And was the subject of the second […] Creation. The Word signifies something that is spread abroad; Hence that, Isa 4 c. 22. He ••etcheth out the Heavens as a curtain, & spread••• them out as a Tent to dwell in. The Air is ••••gher […] lining to ascend, being the ••••est of all Elements. It is an higher Fle••••, placed next to the Fire, and reacheth to the Starry Regions, naturally inclined to move upward: It is one of God's Ascensions, Amos 9.6. […] that buildeth His Stories [Heb. Ascensions] […] the Heavens. It is the Second Story in the World of ••constant Natures; tho' it also descends to fill a •••ce, and prevent a Vacuity which ariseth from its Fluidity Hence it is the Moistest of all, This is it's Prime Quality, inclining it readily […] •••w every way, and take up the Figure of any […] body, and thereby it is suitably accommo•••ted, for Living Creatures to move & breath in: This is called Heaven. Ver.S. And G•d called the Firmament Heaven. The Word signifies there, Waters, because the Water is there drawn up into Clouds and thence returned in Rain, &c.
2. THE Element of Air, is described in it's Creation, under the Title of the Firmament, Gen. 1.6, 7, 8. And was the subject of the second 〈…〉 Creation. The Word signifies something that is spread abroad; Hence that, Isa 4 c. 22. He ••etcheth out the Heavens as a curtain, & spread••• them out as a Tent to dwell in. The Air is gher lining to ascend, being the est of all Elements. It is an higher Fle, placed next to the Fire, and reacheth to the Starry Regions, naturally enclined to move upward: It is one of God's Ascentions,