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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 39 (Question 10)
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SERMON XXXIX.
QUESTION X. HOW did GOD Create Man•s ANSWER. GOD Created Man, Male and Female, after His own Image, in Knowledge, Righteousness, and Holiness, with Dominion over the Creatures.
WE have in the former Head, observed how the lower World was furnished, with all things suitable to make it a fitting Place of Habitation, to entertain some more noble Being; who might receive Homage and Tribute from other Creatures, and actually return it unto the Glory of his and their Creator. In the next and last Place therefore follows the Creation of Men; who as to his Bodily and Sensible part, participates in the same Genus with his fellow Animals, being a living Creature with a Compound Life; but as to his better part is an Immortal Substance, and Akin to the Inhabitants of the other World And since there was a Counsel called at his making, it deserves a special & particular Remark to be made on it. For a more full and distinct discovery of this Piece of God's Workmanship, these things may be considered.
1. The Thing Created. (1) In its special Nature. (2) In its Essential constituting Parts. •. The Time and Order of his Creation. 3. The Different Sex in which Man was Created. 4. The Adjunct Perfection. 5. His Prerogative. 6. His End.