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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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USE. HERE is therefore a great leal of God's Goodness to us to be seen, in this Element, Psal. 19.1.— The Firmament she••eth his handy work. It is a piece of Workmanship becoming the Author of it: By it he proves himself to be God; Isa. 40.22. It is he that stretcheth out the Heavens —. And all the Kindness we receive by it; the Light it brings to us, the Breath we enjoy by it, the Motion we are privileged with by reason of it, the Communication of our selves in Speech to one another; call for our Thankfulness to God, and bid us to make it to resound with the Echo of his Praises.
USE. HERE is therefore agrea leal of God's Goodness to us to be seen, in this Element, Psal. 19.1.— The Firmament she••eth his handy work. It is a piece of Workmanship becoming the Author of it: By it he proves himself to be God; Isa. 40.22. It is he that stretcheth out the Heavens —. And all the Kindness we receive by it; the Light it brings to us, the Breath we enjoy by it, the Motion we are priviledged with by reason of it, the Communication of our selves in Speech to one another; call for our Thankfuliness to God, and bid us to make it to resound with the Eccho of his Praises.
2 THE Lower Elements, whose Forms being less active, are inclined to descend toward the Centre, are Two, viz. The Water and the Earth, whose Creation is jointly described, Gen. 1.9. And these are called God's Bundles, Amos 9.6. And hath founded His Troop [Heb.Bundle] in the Earth. because they are bound up together in one Globe: