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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 38 (Question 9 cont.)
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(1.) THE Inward Senses are made by the Internal Operation of the sensible Spirits: whether on the Brain or on the Heart: These are, ⟨p. 120⟩1. THE Image […] o• the […]: which table in the Images of Things and receives the Impre•••• of them, as they are brought in by the Oc••rd Senses: It is as it were the […], which takes in the […] of things, as they are offered unto it. 2. THE […] which lays together and compose•• the Things which are presented unto the Fancy, whereby the Sensitive Creature as it were, doth conc•••e […]; and accordingly either embraceth, or avoids the Object: And by this the Creature is capable of forming other Objects; from whence Sensitive Creatures are capable of Dreaming, which is nothing but the working of the Cogi•••i••. 3. THE Memory▪ whereby the Creature is able to lay up, what Cogitation hath laid together: and to bring them together again unto the Fancy, when there is occasion: And by this the Sensible Creature, having formerly seen […] Object and observed it, knows it upon Sight a great while after. 4. THE Affections; which are nothing else but the Reflection of Cogitati•• upon the Heart by which it is moved according to the Impression it had there made: And by Virtue hereof are Sensitive Beings variously affected with Love. Hatred, Fe•r, Desire, &c. And these appear in some of them unto Admiration. (2.) THE Outward Senses are reckoned to be Five, in which there in an External Operation of the Sensitive Spir••s: And these are. 1. TOUCHING; and this is the most necessary Sense of all, not only for the well Being, but also for the Absolute Being of the Creature: This Sense is defused through the whole Body, and helps it to discern or perceive the things in those Qualities that may be felt: The l•ss of this is the Death of the Subject. 2. TASTING; which the Philosophers call a Kind of Seeing: The Tongue is the Organ, its Object is Savour, its Use is to distinguish of Meats, and Drinks, and is very Serviceable, both for Safety and Delight. 3. SMELLING; whose Organ is the Nose, its Object Odours, and is Serviceable unto the Preserving of the Creature from Infections, and to refresh the Brain. 4. HEARING; It hath the Ears for its Organ, Sounds for its Object, the Air the Medium; a noble Sense, and is therefore called a Sense of Discipline. 5. SEEING; which is situate in the Eyes; having Colours for its Object, Sight for the Medium;