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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 is an Immortal Spirit. Man by reason of it, is called a Living Soul, Gen. 2.7. i. e. Immortal. There was no pre-existing Matter of which it was made, being made immediately out of Nothing: There was no Time in which the Nature and Form stood separable. It is void of contrary Qualities: The Mortality of the Creature ariseth from the Mixture of its Matter, the contrary Elements maintaining a War in the Body, which tends to Dissolution; there are no such in the Soul. It hath therefore in it, a natural Apprehension of, and Desire after Immortality: Brutes have no such Thoughts, not do they see beyond Time; but Man grasps after Eternity: Hence some Souls gain apparent Strength under the sensible Dangers of the Body; 2 Cor. 4.16. Tho' our outward man perish, yet the inner man is renewed day by day. And the Scripture gives us a clear Testimony for this, Exod. 3.15. compared with, Matth. 32.32. God is not the God of the Dead, but of the Living. 1 Pet. 3.19. The Spirits in Prison. Eccl. 12.7. The Spirit shall return to God that gave it.
3. IT is an Immortal Spirit. Man by reason of it, is called a Living Soul, Gen. 2.7. i. e. Immortal. There was no pre-existing Matter of which it was made, being made immediately out of Nothing: There was no Time in which the Nature and Form stood seperable. It is void of contrary Qualities: The Mortality of the Creature ariseth from the Mixture of its Matter, the contrary Elements maintaining a War in the Body, which tends to Dissolution; there are no such in the Soul. It hath therefore in it, a natural Apprehension of, and Desire after Immortality: Brutes have no such Thoughts, not do they see beyond Time; but Man grasps after Eternity: Hence some Souls gain apparent Strength under the sensible Dangers of the Body; 2 Cor. 4.16. Tho' our outward man perish, yet the inner man is renewed day by day. And the Scripture gives us a clear Testimony for this,