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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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THINGS that enjoy only a Simple Life are of Two sorts: They are such as only have a Vegetative, or only a Motive Life: Of these,
1. VEGETATIVES are the First; and are therefore first named in the History, being Created on the Third Day, together with the Earth, Gen. 1.11, 12. and they are of the two the more Imperfect. These are called by the general name of Plants; and may be de•••i•ed, such things as have only a Vegetative Life; They grow up of the Earth, that at first by a •••••e ⟨p. 118⟩Fiat brought them forth, and that with a Principle of Vegetation in them, Ver. 11. […] Whose seed it in it self. Which Principle is the F•getative Soul; and in it there are several Faculties suitable for this sort of Life: There is the Faculty of Nutrition, Attractive, Potentive, Conctetive, Expulsive: There are Organs fitted for this Service; the Root, Body, Bark, &c. Hence Augmentation & Generation: By the former the Plant grows to it's Stature; by the latter it propagates its Kind. Plants are of Two sorts, the Herb, and the Tree, ver. 11. The Herb is a lesser and more tender Plant; and hence is of a shorter Duration continuing for the most part but One Year or Two; and then either dying altogether, or into the ground: and compriseth under it Grass, Flowers. Corn, and all such as we strictly call Herbs or Weeds: The Tree is of a more solid substance, and consequently more durable, and for the most part outgrows the former; and to this Head doth belong Shrubs of all sorts; And Trees whether for the Nourishment of Man, or for the Nourishment of Beasts, or whether such Uses as are serviceable for the Nourishment of Mankind, Building, Fire, &c. And upon this Shelf of Plants, God hath set the greatest part of the Furniture of this lower World.