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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 64 (Question 19 cont.)
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1. IN respect of the state of the Body in se••. Here is a miserable loss that man hath si• t••ned, and that may be reduced to two particulars. 1. THE loss of his heath and ••vocity. M•• was made at first of a very hall constitution the cross of his body was so curiously ate pered, that there was not the least indisp• tion in it, and by reason of this, he was exceeding vigorous and lively; he was made su•• to immortality: and hence there was nothing in him tending towards a desolation: […] now his health is left, and from the very reception he is distempered and unhealthy, […] so Fable to all diseases; by which men• there is an heaviness and dullness come upon him. Now this privation, both is a […] in it self, and a foundation for many more? •• sitive ones; by this loss, the bond of likes weakened, 1 Cor. 11.30. Mary are weak are sickly among you, and many sleep. 2. THE less of his beauty and majesty. M•• body in the Creation was a stately, comely majestic thing; the other creatures had […] awe of it upon them; not was there any thing shameful in them. Gen. 2.25. But […] no sooner sinned but he became a shame […] himself, Chap. 3.7. Man's beauty is bla••• his visage is marred; and besides that whom is befallen all without exception, there are great deformities which some are born w•• all, disproportion in the parts, making an a• merry in the whole, besides many mon••• deficiencies or redundancies, which either […] fit the body for it's service, or expose it […] contempt.
1. IN resped of the state of the Body in se. Here is a miserable loss that man hath si tned, and that may be reduced to two paticulars. 1. THE loss of his heath and vocity. M was made at first of a very hall constitution the cross of his body was so curioully atte pered, that there was not the least indisp tion in it, and by reason of this, he was exceeding vigorous and lively; he was made su to immercality: and hence there was nothing in him tending towards a dissolation: now his health is left, and from the very reception he is distempered and unhealthy, so Fable to all diseases; by which men there is an heaviness and dulness come upon him. Now this privation, both is a in it self, and a foundation for many more? sitive ones; by this loss, the bond of likes weakened,