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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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3. THIS […] of the creature come under a double Consideration.
3. THIS 〈…〉 of the •reature come under a double Consideration.
1. GENERAL or Universal; and that […] in the […] of one thing with another, […] that all […] unto the Perfection of the whole and the […] Glory of God, Psal. 148. For […] Second Being is […], so […] the First: and all things […], as they were made, were […] to keep Tune in the Praising of God.
1. GENERAL or Universal; and that 〈…〉 in the 〈…〉 of one thing with another, 〈…〉 that all 〈…〉 unto the Perfection of the whole and the 〈…〉 Glory of God, Psal. 148. For 〈…〉 Second Being is 〈…〉, so 〈…〉 the First: and all things 〈…〉, as they were made, were 〈…〉 to keep Tune in the Praising of God.
2. PARTICULAR; which is the special Operation whereby every Kind of Being, & every Individual in every Kind, were fitted to Serve to the great and last End, according unto its sing Nature & Place it is set in, in the Creation: Which Service […] is double; Active & Pas.