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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, 1. HERE is matter of Admiration at the Wisdom and Power & Goodness of God. His Wisdom in hanging this Earth upon Nothing so F••m and fast; His Power in laying restraint upon the great Body of Waters, that they return not to drown the Earth; and His Goodness in so seating & disposing of both, as to make them commodious for the Entertainment of Men, Beasts, Fowls, and Fishes.
USE, 2. WHAT little Reason hath he to be Proud, who hath most of this Earth in his Possession? It is but a little in it self but a point of a point; and it is but little worth, being made to be trodden under Fool, and not to be set up in the Heart.
IN the next place we proceed to consider of the Creation of the Elementaries; which are Inconstant Natures, made up of the Elements mixed one with another, Gen. 2.19. Out of the Ground the Lord God formed every Beast of the field, and every Fowl of the Air. By Ground we are to understand these Four Principles. That other things were made of them appears, both by the Quantities of them, which these partake in, (Job 4.19.) as also by the Resolution of them into these; Infinite Wisdom contrived them by several Mixtures, to give different Forms to them, whence proceeds the divers Kinds of them, according to the Creator's Pleasure.
IN the next place we proceed to consider of the Creation of the Elementaries; which are Inconstant Natures, made up of the Elements mixed one with another, Gen. 2.19. Out of the Ground the Lord God fermed every Beast of the field, and every Fowl of the Air. By Ground we are to understand these Four Principles. That other things were made of them appears, both by the Quantities of them, which these partake in, (