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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 68 (Question 19 cont.)
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THE Body shall be pl••g•ed with an unquenchable fire. This contains under it all the corporal miseries that shall there be suffered: of which it is not for us to give a d•ffi•ct account; only let us observe, that all the miseries that men have sustained in their bodies in this life, are but the beginning of sorrows; those that follow are far more dreadful. That tender and delicate body, that can now scarcely endure the prick of a pin, which is prinked up in pride, and looked after with delicacy, shall become a prey to those devouring flames, which will have no regard to its comeliness, nor pity it i• the least; when the misery of one member still be intolerable, and that misery speed it self through the whole man: when eyes, cars, hands, feet, heart, and all shall be tormented in that flame.
THE Body shall be pl••g•ed with an unquenchable fire. This contains under it all the corporal miseries that shall there be suffered: of which it is not for us to give a d•ffi•ct account; only let us observe, that all the miseries that men have saftained in their bodies in this life, are but the beginning of sorrows; those that follow are far more dreadful. That tender and delicate body, that can now scarcely endure the prick of a pin, which is prinked up in pride, and looked after with delicacy, shall become a prey to those devouring flames, which will have no regard to its comeliness, nor pity it i• the least; when the misery of one member still be intollerable, and that misery spead it self through the whole man: when eyes, cars, hands, feer, heart, and all shall be tormented in that flame.