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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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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.
4. IT gives to the Creature Self-Motion in its proper place: It gives It Self-Motion; Meteors are moved, but not by themselves, but an adventitious Impulse: Life principally consists in Self Motion, Death in the Cessation of that Power; Other things may move when moved, but these have an internal Principle of it: And it is in its proper place: Elements move towards their place when out of it, but when they come, there they rest; but this is not Life, but a Principle of Gravity & Levity; But Living things have a Spring of Motion in their proper places; which is an Effect & Discovery of Life.
NOW Living things may be distributed according to the Kind of Life which they live; and so, they are either such as have a Simple, or such as have a Compound Life: An account is given of both these, Gen. I.