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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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USE 2. SEE here the different Esteem which God & Man put upon these things. God would not so much as give them a Name or Mention in the Works of Creation, but passed them over with silence: But Men make their greatest Discourses about them, either repining at the Want of them, or boasting themselves in their Enjoyment of them, or contriving how they may compass them. God laid them low, placed them in the Bowels of the Earth, to be trodden upon; But Man adores them, sets them up in his Heart, and worships these […] them as high as God, and setting them in his Things, Psal. 135.15. The Idols of the heather are Silver & Gold, the work of men's hands.
USE 2. SEE here the different Esteem which God & Man put upon these things. God would not so much as give them a Name or Mention in the Works of Creation, but passed them over with silence: But Men make their greatest Discourses about them, either repining at the Want of them, or boasting themselves in their Enjoyment of them, or contriving how they may compass them. God laid them low, placed them in the Bowels of the Earth, to be trodden upon; But Man adores them, sets them up in his Heart, and worships these 〈…〉 them as high as God, and setting them in his Things, Psal. 135.15. The Idols of the heather are Silver & Gold, the work of men's hands.
[2.] ANIMATES, or things with Life. are such things as were Created with both a Body and a Soul. Life is properly the Act of the Soul upon the Body; I therefore consists in the union of these two; Gen. 35.1•. — As ••r soul was in departing, for she died. Life then consists in Union, which Union is made by an Act; for which reason Life is called an Act, which is the Principle of Operation: Here then we may consider something in general of the Nature of a Soul; It is a Quickening Spirit, affording Nutrition to a thing, and Self-Moron in its proper place.