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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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1. THE Water is a […] 1 Element, the most Cold, and of a congreath•• nature. It is a Lower Element, it naturally descends; It is supposed naturally to be next the Air: But God hath placed it in the Creation together with the Earth; and bound it up with Bars, that in overflow it not, Job 28.8, &c.
1. THE Water is a 〈…〉 1 Element, the most Cold, and of a congreath•• nature. It is a Lower Element, it naturally descends; It is supposed naturally to be next the Air: But God hath placed it in the Creation together with the Earth; and bound it up with Bars, that in overflow it not, Job 28.8, &c.
IT is the Coldest. That is its Prime Quality; And for this reason it is in Scripture noted by this Epithet, Matth. 10.42.&A cup of Cold Water—. It is therefore often put in opposition to Fire, in respect of it's Heat, as being most contrary to it.
HENCE it is of a congregating nature, which is by virtue of its Coldness, which contracts and draws things together; as the Fire separates them. The Benefits of this Element are great; not only in the Composition of Bodies, but also in that it affords us a great part of our Nutriment: It quencheth our Thirst, it supplies the Farth with Fertility, it affords Traffic and Commerce among Men