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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. IT is the other Constituting Part in Man. Man consists of Soul and Body: where either is wanting, it is not an entire Man.
2. IT is a Spirit of Life. Job 32.8. There is a Spirit in Man, and the inspiration of the Almighty, giveth him understanding. It hath least Matter and most Form: It is Materiated, or else it would not stand separated without a Miracle: There is no pure Act or Form standing alone, that being a Property Incommunicable of the First Being. It hath the Properties of a Spirit in it: It is most Active; it has a kind of Ubiquity; it is from one end of the Earth to another in a little T•me; it is never out of Action; it Sleeps not in or with the Body; that is at work when the Senses are bound up; it is of wondrous Strength; Men can kill the Body, but not annihilate the Soul.
2. IT is a Spirit of Life. Job 32.8. There is a Spirit in Man, and the inspiration of the Almighty, giveth him understanding. It hath least Matter and most Form: It is Materiated, or else it would not stand seperated without a Miracle: There is no pure Act or Form standing alone, that being a Property Incommunicable of the First Being. It hath the Properties of a Spirit in it: It is most Active; it has a kind of Ubiquity; it is from one end of the Earth to another in a little T•me; it is never out of Action; it Sleeps not in or with the Body; that is at work when the Senses are bound up; it is of wondrous Strength; Men can kill the Body, but not annihilate the Soul.