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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. THEY are Animates. or Living things, consisting of a Body and Soul. Philosophers have been astonished at their swift Motion, and hence supposed them to be sixth unto their Orbs, and moved by Intelligences; as if Infinite Power and Wisdom could not put into them a Power of Self Motion, as well as Create another Power to move them: But that they are Living Beings appears, partly by their Ord•• of Creation; they were made among Living Creatures; and how immethodical a conceit is it, that God should first begin to Create o•• sort of Animates, and the•• after that to return to make another sort of I••••mates? Partly from the Nature of their Motion, which is conti•• all; which proves a constant Spring of Action natural to them; for violent Motions are not permanent and regular: It was the Wisdom of the Creator to fit every thing for its F•• and Use; and that was by putting into it a Nature suitable to its Operation, and tho•• were for Motion and Revolution; and as it is continual so it is regular: The Sun knows it's rising; […] Star keeps his place according to […] of Creation.
1. THEY are Animates. or Living things, consisting of a Body and Soul. Philosophers have been astonished at their swift Motion, and hence supposed them to be fixt unto their Orbs, and moved by Intelligences; as if Infinite Power and Wisdom could not put into them a Power of Self Motion, as well as Create another Power to move them: But that they are Living Beings appears, partly by their Ord•• of Creation; they were made among Living Creatures; and how immethodical a conceit is it, that God should first begin to Create o•• sort of Animates, and the•• after that to return to make another sort of I••••mates? Partly from the Nature of their Motion, which is conti•• al; which proves a constant Spring of Action natural to them; for violent Motions are not permanent and regular: It was the Wisdom of the Creator to fit every thing for its F and Use; and that was by putting into it a Nature suitable to its Opration, and tho were for Motion and Revolution; and as it is continual so it is regular: The Sun knows it's rising; Star keeps his place accoding to of Creation.