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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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2. YET mankind is propagated in Generation, as other for sitive, and vegetative Beings are. This doth not at all hinder the truth of ma•s derivation from man. For. (1.) THERE are the formative Spirits •••• rated, which do organize the Body […] realou••le creature and make it fit to receive the Soul in it, as its instrument for its operations. (2.) THE Body being thus tempered, the Soul d•th••rtain•y c••• into it. There is that unfailing concourse in the Providence of God, that he always provides a Soul for every humane Body, that is generated. Job 10 11.12. Th•• hast clothed me with •••n end flesh and hast fenced me with lones and finites. Th•• hast granted me life. (3.) THE same Spirits become the instruments of the union between the Soul and body. They are the bond or this union, and are accordingly suited for such a service as that is; and it is upon the failing of these that a separation is at any time made. (4.) THE Soul and Body are thus united together by Generation. By which union they become one Person. This union is that in which Generation properly results. The whole Body, animal and vital spirits, which are the bond or this union, are produced by this Generation: and by virtues of this operation, the Body is fashioned and organized, the Soul is received into union, and so one complete subsistence is made. And this is enough to denominate ••••e propagation of the kind.
2. YET mankind is propagated in Generation, as other for sitive, and vegerative Beings are. This doth not at all hinder the truth of ma•s derivation from man. For. (1.) THERE are the formative Spirits •••• rated, which do or•a•ize the Body realoule creature and make it fit to receive the Soul in it, as its instrument for its operations. (2.) THE Body being thas trepered, the Soul dthrtainy c into it. There is that unfailing concasse in the Providence of God, that he always provides a Soul for every humane Body, that is generated.