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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. IT is a Spirit: Not In material as some, for then it wound be God; Nor yet are Souls of any Inferior Being Quintessential, For Elementary, made of the more refined Farticles of them; and are therefore called Spirits.
1. IT is a Spirit: Not In material as some, for then it wound be God; Nor yet are Souls of any Inferiour Being Quintessential, For Elementary, made of the more refined Farticles of them; and are therefore called Spirits.
2. A Quickening Spirit. Hence we oppose Quick & Dead: When Soul & Body are united, they are said to be Quick; when separated Dead: And the more Spirits, the more Quick.
2. A Quickning Spirit. Hence we oppose Quick & Dead: When Soul & Body are united, they are said to be Quick; when separated Dead: And the more Spirits, the more Quick.
3. THAT which affords Nutrition to a thing: It useth the bodily Organs fitted these•o whereby it attracts that Nourishment which is needed, and makes use of it for Preservation and Augmentation: There is a Power in the Creature to do this, and this discovers a Principle of Life.