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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 38 (Question 9 cont.)
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[1.] IN G•••••. Things with a Comp•••• Life are things which, beside the s•rementioned Vegetative and Motive Life, do also Live a Life of S••j•a Here Two things, 1. THEY Live ••th the former Lives: They meet together in them, whereas they areal••e in the other; and this is o•• Reason why they are said to have a Compound Life. 1. THEY have the Life of Vegetation. Stars do not grow, but •e••tive Creatures do: They •••rease in a way of Life: They receive Nourishment by Organs fitted in them for Vegetation, and animated by Vital Spirits: Hence they are the Subjects of Nutrition. Alteration, Augmentation; by Virtue whereof they arrive at their designed Stature. 2. THEY have the Life of M••••n: Plants move not out o• their own Place to seek for Nourishment, being fixed, and have it where they stand; But these move up and down and seek for their Nutrition: They go from Place to Place to get their Food where they can find it. 2. THEY have a Third sort of Life superadded, viz. a Life of Sense: Whether they have so many distinct Souls in them, as they have Kinds of Life, or whether they perform all these Functions, by one and the same Soul; let Philosophers dispute. The Soul considered as Sensitive is nothing else but a Sensible Spirit, by which our Nature perceives sensible Objects, by it's Bodily Organs, which other Creatures do not. In the Sensation of the Creature, there are Two things, which will come under consideration, viz. 1. The Object. 2. The Faculty, together with its acting on the Object.
[1.] IN G•••••. Things with a Comp•••• Life are things which, beside the s•rementioned Vegetative and Motive Life, do also Live a Life of Sja Here Two things, 1. THEY Live th the former Lives: They meet together in them, whereas they areale in the other; and this is o Reason why they are said to have a Compound Life. 1. THEY have the Life of Vegetation. Stars do not grow, but etive Creatures do: They rease in a way of Life: They receive Nourishment by Organs fitted in them for Vegetation, and animated by Vital Spirits: Hence they are the Subjects of Nutrition. Afteration, Augmentation; by Vertue whereof they arrive at their designed Stature. 2. THEY have the Life of Mn: Plants move not out o their own Place to seek for Nourishment, being fixed, and have it where they stand; But these move up and down and seek for their Nutrition: They go from Place to Place to get their Food where they can find it. 2. THEY have a Third sort of Life superadded, viz. a Life of Sense: Whether they have so many distinct Souls in them, as they have Kinds of Life, or whether they perform all these Functions, by one and the same Soul; let Philosophers dispute. The Soul considered as Sensitive is nothing else but a Sensible Spirit, by which our Nature perceives sensible Objects, by it's Bodily Organs, which other Creatures do not. In the Sensation of the Creature, there are Two things, which will come under consideration, viz. 1. The Object. 2. The Faculty, together with its acting on the Object.