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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]
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AN EXPOSITION OF THE ASSEMBLY's SHORTER CATECHISM: IN Two Hundred a… › Sermon 37 (Question 9 cont.)
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THEIR Mo•••• […] him•••, tho' Fire be Predominant. They are, or belong to the Earth, mention•• […]. The F••• Matter, which was First formed into Elements, and then into Elementaties, among which they are placed in the Order of Creation: And they have a Circular Motion •otted them. The End or Uses of them are such as these: 1. TO Divide••e Day […] Night: The Light did it in the Three first Days, but it was now stamped upon these Bodies as their designed Office to the Worlds End; and they do […] by separating the Light and Darkness in their distinct Way and End. 2. TO give Light upon the Earth: And for this Reason, they have their Names. Light; as being Light Keepers, and Light Carriers: All of them do more or less Illuminate, tho' principally the ••n. 3. TO before Signs & Seas•••, Days & Years: ••r Signs. Progs ••••ating several Natural Effects, likely to ensue. Seasons. i. e. several Times of the Year, made by the Motion of the Sun especially, tho' influenced by other Constellations; Job 28.31, 32, 33. Days, by the Access and Recess of Light and Darkness; yea by the Revolution or Per••di•al Circle of the Sun finishing his Course, and coming into the same Point, which constitutes a Year.
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