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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. THOSE of an Imperfect Mixture we first in order of Nature in Creation, because God in making of Inconstant Natures proceeded from things more Imperfect, to things more Perfect. They are called Imperfect, not as if they were not Perfect in their Kind; for they were also the Works of God, and good, which is their Perfection: But their Mixture is not so firm, stable and permanent, but soon made, soon dissolved, instable, Jude v. 12. These are generally known by the name of Meteors; which, though not named in the History of the Creation, yet are to be understood, as the Workmanship of the Third Day; made next to the Elements: Chap. 2.6. There went up a Mist from the Earth. i. e. on the Third Day; and now the Firmament attained its End and Use; whence a double Approbation of the Work of this Day. Gen. 1.11, 12. These are a part of God's Creation, Jer. 10.13. He causeth the Vapour to os•end, He maketh Lightnings with Rain, and bringeth forth the Wand out of His ••eas•es. They are Bodies soon conceived; a Cloud as big as a Man's Hand will presently spread the Sky. Their Mixture is very slighty; Snow & Hail do but very little differ from Water: Hence they are quickly dissolved and turned to their Principles, Jam. 4.14. — A Vapour appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. Some of these are Fiery, as Sparks or falling Stars, burning Spears, Swords, Arrows, Thunder & Lightning; Others Airy is the Wind and Earthquakes; others Warty, as Clouds, Mists, Dews, Hoar-Frosts, Rain. &c. To these we may add Rainbows, perpendicular Lines in the Clouds, Parelions, &c. Their use is to purge the Air; Partly the Nutrition and Generation of the Fruits of the Earth, Hes. 3.21. Partly for Signs, Lu•e. 21.25. Some are natural, some preternatural.
1. THOSE of an Imperfect Mixture we first in order of Nature in Creation, because God in making of Inconstant Natures proceeded from things more Imperfect, to things more Perfect. They are called Imperfect, not as if they were not Perfect in their Kind; for they were also the Works of God, and good, which is their Perfection: But their Mixture is not so firm, stable and permanent, but soon made, soon dissolved, instable,