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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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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, Gen. 2.7. 3. MAN's life consists in the man of these race. Man stands is the rack or order of living creatures, and be comes to be so by virtue of this conjunction. The body is the Souls organ, sorted for it to act upon; but the organ without the Soul is a lifeless thing, it is calivered by the putting of that into it, as Gen. 2.7. and though it be usually denominated national, from the most excellent operations of it flowing from it's intellectual and moral powers or faculties by which it is Specified; yet it hath is it all the other powers of life, self motion, and regeration, and sense, which derive from it to the body. Hence when that goes, all go with it. 4. HENCE when this […] to by […], and a separation […], the body dies.