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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 45 (Question 11 cont.)
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(2.) THIS Preservation which God affords to the Creature extends it self,
1. TO the Essence of all things: i. e. The Matter and Form: This is it that holds them together: God sustains the Causes and Operations of them by His Hand, upholds their Union, that they fall not asunder; in which He makes use of a common Rule, or the Impression of a Natural Appetency after Self-Preservation, put into and maintained in the Creature, by which it avoids things Destructive, and craves such as are Conservative.
2. TO the Accidents & Qualities of things; the Faculties & Virtues of Second Beings. God hath united these to their Subjects by a necessary Connection, and holds them together, so as that they do not separate; and this is according to an Ordinance or Decree, appointing to each it's several Nature and Qualities.
2. TO the Accidents & Qualities of things; the Faculties & Vertues of Second Beings. God hath united these to their Subjects by a necessary Connection, and holds them together, so as that they do not seperate; and this is according to an Ordinance or Decree, appointing to each it's several Nature and Qualities.