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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 56 (Question 16)
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And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul. (2.) THE Scripture is very full in asserting the manner of the Souls production to be, by Creation. See for this, Ecel. 12.7. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the suit shall return to God who gave it: Where there is a manifest opposition, of the manner of the original of the Spirit, and of the Body; and by Spirit we are to understand the rational Soul. See also, Heb. 12.9. Furthermore, we have had fathers of our flesh, which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection to the father of spirits, and live? What more manifest opposition can there be; than is here between the fathers of our flesh, and the Father of spirits? So, Zech. 12.1. And formeth the spirit of man within him. Isai. 57.16. The souls which I have made. There is a peculiar em•••sis in it. So, Job 10. When having spoken of the origination of his Body, ver, 9, 10. he proceeds to show the original of his Soul, ver. 12.
And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul. (2.) THE Scripture is very full in asserting the manner of the Souls production to be, by Creation. See for this, Ecel. 12.7. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the suit shall return to God who gave it: Where there is a manifest opposition, of the manner of the original of the Spirit, and of the Body; and by Spirit we are to understand the rational Soul. See also, Heb. 12.9. Furthermore, we have had fathers of our flesh, which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection to the father of spirits, and live? What more manifest opposition can there be; than is here between the fathers of our flesh, and the Father of spirits? So, Zech. 12.1. And form•th the spirit of man within him.