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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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(2.) HIS Essential constituting Parts of these things which g• into make and denominate him such a Being; and they are his Body and his Soul. These may be called his Consistence, because they did consist, or stand together, in his Creation. Would we know how God made Man, the Answer is, Gen. 27. The Lord God formed Man of th• Dust of the ground, and breathed into his Nostrils the breath of Life, and Man became a living Soul. We may take a short view of each.
[1.] THE Body is a constituting Part of Man, made of the Elements, and fitted with suitable Organs for the Operations of the Reasonable Soul.
1. IT is a Constituting Part; it is Essential and Integral in him: The Soul doth not make the Man, without a Body joined unto it; but both these in Union constitute the Man: The Body, though not so noble a part, yet is as absolutely necessary to his Being as the Soul.