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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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2. THEY have a Locomotive Life. That Self-Motion is Life, or an Indication of it, we have already heard, Such do these exert, this is the manner of their Living. Here observe, 1. THE Subject Place they move in, is the Element of Fire: Said to move in the Expense, Ver. 14. by a Metony my of the Adjunct, the Firmament being next: There are but Three Heavens; the Third is above them: They move not in the lowest, for then they would only diffuse Air by their Motion; whereas their Beams are Fiery, as appears partly by their Light, partly by their Heat. 2. THEIR Formal Spirit or Soul, being Motive, doth participate of F•rc, which is most Active ⟨p. 119⟩and hence they have their Ap••• and a seppi••• Piety Sp••ts […] L••e and Motion: Here then […] s•ion […] in the Sea•or fly as B••s in th• A••, m•••ng in their several Stations, as in their own Element: Hence called […] •s […]. Gen. 22.1•.
2. THEY have a Locomotive Life. That Self-Motion is Life, or an Indication of it, we have already heard, Such do these exert, this is the manner of their Living. Here observe, 1. THE Subject Place they move in, is the Element of Fire: Said to move in the Exp•nce, Ver. 14. by a Metony my of the Adjunct, the Firmament being next: There are but Three Heavens; the Third is above them: They move not in the lowest, for then they would only diffuse Air by their Motion; whereas their Beams are Fiery, as appears partly by their Light, partly by their Heat. 2. THEIR Formal Spirit or Soul, being Motive, doth participate of Frc, which is most Active