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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 39 (Question 10)
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3. IT was •••ted will Organs suitable for the Operations of the Reasonable Soul. It was therefore curiously contrived for this Purpose, Psal. 139.14, 15. We have before taken notice of these Organs, as suited for Sensation; and therefore need not make a particular Account of them, only as they are the suitable Instruments of Reason, for which End they are adapted for the Functions of this most excellent Soul. Here then is the Head, the Chief and more Noble Part, being the Principal Seat of the Rational Soul; where also are placed the Inward Senses, and accordingly the Brain is divided into so many Cells, or several Rooms, which are as it were so many Shops, in which the Inward Senses do work: Here also are all the Organs of the External Senses except Touching, which is all over the Body: This is the Work-house of the Understanding, and the Throne of Reason: Here is the Face which is full of Majesty, and puts an awe upon other Creatures, a Principal distinguisher of Men, whereby one is known from another; and herein appears the curious Wisdom of God, in giving every one a distinct Face, that among so many Millions there is not Two in all Points alike, but easily distinguishable: Here are the Eyes, the Soul's Looking-Glasses, to take in Visible Objects, and to turn every way. Here are the Ears, by which we receive Discipline, taking the Word of God, and Means of Faith: Here is the Heart, which is the Seat of the Affections, and by which the Will doth exert its elicit Actions: Here are the Hands, Organs suited to perform the Devices of the Soul, wherewith many Works are wrought and Man is enabled to provide for his own Supply: And here are the Feet which carry the Body according to the Direction of the Soul; and there are but Two, because Man was made to go upright, and move Heaven wards in all his Operations: And all these Organs were made to be at the Command and under the Government of the Nobler Part which follows,
3. IT was •••ted will Organs suitable for the Operations of the Reasonable Soul. It was therefore curiously contrived for this Purpose, Psal. 139.14, 15. We have before taken notice of these Organs, as suited for Sensation; and therefore need not make a particular Account of them, only as they are the suitable Instruments of Reason, for which End they are adapted for the Functions of this most excellent Soul. Here then is the Head, the Chief and more Noble Part, being the Principal Seat of the Rational Soul; where also are placed the Inward Senses, and accordingly the Brain is divided into so many Cells, or several Rooms, which are as it were so many Shops, in which the Inward Senses do work: Here also are all the Organs of the External Senses except Touching, which is all over the Body: This is the Work-house of the Understanding, and the Throne of Reason: Here is the Face which is full of Majesty, and puts an awe upon other Creatures, a Principal distingusher of Men, whereby one is known from another; and herein appears the curious Wisdom of God, in giving every one a distinct Face, that among so many Millions there is not Two in all Points alike, but easily distinguishable: Here are the Eyes, the Soul's Looking-Glasses, to take in Visible Objects, and to turn every way. Here are the Ears, by which we receive Discipline, taking the Word of God, and Means of Faith: Here is the Heart, which is the Seat of the Affections, and by which the Will doth exert its elicit Actions: Here are the Hands, Organs suited to perform the Devices of the Soul, wherewith many Works are wrought and Man is enabled to provide for his own Supply: And here are the Feet which carry the Body according to the Direction of the Soul; and there are but Two, because Man was made to go upright, and move Heaven wards in all his Operations: And all these Organs were made to be at the Command and under the Government of the Nobler Part which follows,