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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 Earth is a lower Element most dry: Hence from this Quality it received its Name; Gen. 1.19 And God called the Dry Land, Earth. This is the lowest of all, and therefore is the Centre of the World, and by virtue of its Dryness, it is inclined to keep its own Figure & Bounds; in which respect it is most contrary to the Air which, by reason of its moisture, gives way to every other Body: And by virtue of this it is a ⟨p. 116⟩[…] f•• the •••atares to walk upon; and hence the usual Name in Scripture, comes of a Word that signifies, to tread upon; but for which Man could have no Habitation in it.
2. THE Earth is a lower Element most dry: Hence from this Quality it received its Name; Gen. 1.19 And God called the Dry Land, Earth. This is the lowest of all, and therefore is the Center of the World, and by vertue of its Dryness, it is inclined to keep its own Figure & Bounds; in which respect it is most contrary to the Air which, by reason of its moisture, gives way to every other Body: And by •ertue of this it is a ⟨p. 116⟩〈…〉 f•• the •••atares to walk upon; and hence the usual Name in Scripture, comes of a Word that signifies, to tread upon; but for which Man could have no Habitation in it.
THESE two Elements are so moulded together as to make one Globe, usually called the Earth; being a round Body, lying upon its own Centre; & that not by a Miracle, but by natural Disposition put into it in Creation, Job . 7. He ngeth the Earth upon Nothing. See, 38.4, 6 And these are Interwoven, that all the Inhabitants of the lower World enjoy the benefit of them both; the great Sea washing every Continent, and secretly conveying its Waters in the Caverns of the Earth; and by the Clouds, which as so many veins run through it in Springs, Brooks, and Rivers, […] 1.7.