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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 40 (Question 10 cont.)
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2. MAN's Necessity required that he should have one of his Kind for his suitable Converse; Gen. 2.18, 25. And the Lord God said, it is not Good that man should be alone, I will make him on help meet for him, &c. Man was made a Sociable Creature, and Solitariness was neither safe nor comfortable for him; now the Beasts were before him, and not fit for Rational Communion; the Angels were Invisible, and therefore not suitable for familiar Converse; no Being was so fit as one of his Kind.
3. MAN's Conveniency required, that this Companion of his should be a Woman: no other could have answered all the Ends of Human Society. Men were not made as the Angels, all the Individuals at once; but were to be Propagated in their Generations: such a one therefore could only be a meet help for him, Gen. 2.18.
4. GOD's Design of treating with Man, required that there should be but One Man, and, One Woman at First: because he would Indent with Mankind in a Covenant in One Head; for which reason all were to proceed from One Original: Our First Parents were One Flesh, and were the Root from which all Men were to spring; and therefore must be but One.