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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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1. FROM Natural Diseases: All Living Creatures since the Fall, in this lower World, are become liable unto them; and by them they are usually brought to their Dissolution: Here therefore this Providence exerts it self, Partly by Preventing these Maladies from si••ing them, Partly by Pr•••ding and b••ssing Means for that Recovery out of them; God Provides […] sick for His Creatures, as well as Food, and applies it to them: Partly by a Natural Sa••••y put into the Brute Creatures to apply to their Remedies: Partly by giving Ski•• to Rational Beings; and God's Providence is here often very Observable.
1. FROM Natural Diseases: All Living Creatures since the Fall, in this lower World, are become liable unto them; and by them they are usually brought to their Dissolution: Here therefore this Providence exerts it self, Partly by Preventing these Maladies from si••ing them, Partly by Pr•••ding and b••ssing Means for that Recovery out of them; God Provides 〈…〉 sick for His Creatures, as well as Food, and applies it to them: Partly by a Natural Sa••••y put into the Brute Creatures to apply to their Remedies: Partly by giving Ski•• to Rational Beings; and God's Providence is here often very Observable.
2. FROM Violence: The Creature is liable to Assaults, and it's Life is endangered thereby; and there are some that are a Prey to almost every thing; and yet there is such a Care taken, that such as these are Preserved; this is of God; and He doth it, Partly by putting an Ins•••• into the Creature it self, so as to know such Creatures as are Inimical to it, and seek its Life; and giving it Discretion to use Means to stay and get out of the Danger; yea and to […] it self from the Invasion: Such a piece of Wisdom is commended in a Brute;