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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. OTHER Beings God continues by a more Mediate Providence in a Changeable State; and that both with respect unto the Generals, and the Individuals.
2. OTHER Beings God continues by a more Mediate Providence in a Changable State; and that both with respect unto the Generals, and the Individuals.
1. RELATING to General Kinds: And these God continues by the Means of the Propagation of Individuals. God intending a Succession of Individuals, and therein the Continuance of the Species of Beings, by Singulars taking their Turns, abiding their Generation, and then going off again to make way for Succeeding Generations. He hereupon left the Impression of a Prolifical Virtue upon the Nature of several Beings, by Virtue of a Creating Word; See, Gen. 1.11, 22, 28. And upon account of this Generation it is, that the Corruptible and seen Dying ⟨p. 140⟩Creature is Eternized; and the Kinds Live in those Individuals which are upon the Stage, when innumerable of those that formerly were of them, do now Cease to be: One Generation goes, &c. for ever; i. e. Till the Last Generation; or till the Consummation of all things.
1. RELATING to General Kinds: And these God continues by the Means of the Propagation of Individuals. God intending a Succession of Individuals, and therein the Continuance of the Species of Beings, by Singulars taking their Turns, abiding their Generation, and then going off again to make way for Succeeding Generations. He hereupon left the Impression of a Prolifical Vertue upon the Nature of several Beings, by Vertue of a Creating Word; See, Gen. 1.11, 22, 28. And upon account of this Generation it is, that the Corruptible and seen Dying ⟨p. 140⟩