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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 66 (Question 19 cont.)
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II. THEY are made liable to Death it self: This is the Second Head unto which the Miseries of fallen Men are reserved. The word, Death, is used in Scripture to express all those evils, whether of sin or sorrow, unto which Man is exposed, and in the cause, Gen 2.17. For in the day the eatest thereof, to•• shalt surely dye. It is to be understood as comprehending them all. But in our present Consideration, we are to understand it in a more restrained and vulgar sense, viz. of the Death of the Body; as it comes after, and consummates the miseries of this life. Hence we may consider, 1. Of the nature of this Death. 2. That it was introduced by men's Apostasy. 3. Wherein it appears to be a misery?
II. THEY are made liable to Death it self: This is the Second Head unto which the Miseries of fallen Men are reserved. The word, Death, is used in Scripture to express all those evils, whether of sin or sorrow, unto which Man is exposed, and in the cause, Gen 2.17. For in the day the eatest thereof, to•• shalt surely dye. It is to be understood as comprehending them all. But in our present Consideration, we are to understand it in a more restrained and vulgar sense, viz. of the Death of the Body; as it comes after, and consummates the miseries of this life. Hence we may consider, 1. Of the nature of this Death. 2. That it was introduced by men's Apostacy. 3. Wherein it appears to be a misery?
1. WE may take an account of the nature of it in this description, A bodily Death, is a […] of the union between the Soul and Body, whereby a separation is made, and so the Body, becomes a carcass, being deprived of all vied a•••as. It is called a bodily death, party to difference it from the spiritual death of the inchoations whereof we have already treated; partly, because only the Body and not the Soul is capable of a proper natural death. Life and Death are contraries, life is the habit, death is the privation of it: so that by the consideration of the one, we are led to see the other. Here then, 1. LIFE is a principle or power of self motion is a thing. There are various actions about life, but this is the most general and comprehensive, and is applicable to all the sorts of life which any creatures do enjoy: whatsoever moveth, it is either by an external force applied to it, or by an inward principle; now this inward principle is either a natural quality (by which things out of their place are carried to their proper place, as heavy things move downward; and this doth not amount to life) or such a natural power as by which they move themselves in their place, and this is that we call life. 2. MAN consists of two essential constituting parts, viz. a Body, and a reasonable Soul. Neither of these alone is the man, but both in conjunction. The Soul indeed is often taken for the man, it being the nobler and more excellent part in him, but that is not a proper, but a tropical expression: both go together to his specification and personality: we have therefore that account given of his making or constitution,