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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 37 (Question 9 cont.)
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[1.] INANI MATES, or things without Life, are usually known by the general and comprehensive Name of Minerals: Which may be Defined; Elementaries perfectly mixed, consisting only of a Body. The Creation of these is not vouchsafed an express mention in the History, Gen. 1. But it is implied & comprehended in the Third Days Work; being made in and together with the Earth: These are Creatures of God, and ⟨p. 117⟩made also to show forth his Glory and therefore must have a room allowed them in the Creation; and here it, is most proper, being of things perfectly mixed, of the most imperfect Nature: We have accordingly an Account of the•• Creation and Nature, Job 28. beg. Surely […] is a vein for Silver, and a place for G•la; •••n is taken cut of the Earth, & Brass is molten cut of the Stone. These are God's Subterranean Treasures, hidden under ground from the Vul••e•s Eye, and yet are Found out by the search of Men's greedy Desire.
[1.] INANI MATES, or things without Life, are usually known by the general and comprehensive Name of Minerals: Which may be Defined; Elementaries perfectly mixt, consisting only of a Body. The Creation of these is not vouchsafed an express mention in the History, Gen. 1. But it is implyed & comprehended in the Third Days Work; being made in and together with the Earth: These are Creatures of God, and ⟨p. 117⟩