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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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[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.
2. IT was made of the Elements; and so agrees with the Bodies of other Creatures. Gen. 2.7. —Of the Dust—. A Synecdoche. The Spirit of God useth the Phrase, Dust, to show unto Man his mean Original; but the Four Humours in his Body, show the Elemental Constitution of his Body.
2. IT was made of the Elements; and so agrees with the Bodies of other Creatures. Gen. 2.7. —Of the Dust—. A Synechd••he. The Spirit of God useth the Phrase, Dust, to shew unto Man his mean Original; but the Four Humours in his Body, shew the Elemental Constitution of his Body.