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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 69 (Question 19 cont.)
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1. THAT th•• […] m•n is by its re•••d […]. It being of a spiritual nature […] •ot: it needs not elements, not elementary substances to give it sufferance, or preserve its •••ng to it: it lives without fo•d or ra•me•t, or any other supplies as are requisite for the shoring up of the body; and hence t•e death of the soul, is not a death of annihilation, but of misery; and the soul cannot cease to be what it is for its subs•••••, by any other power, but that of God who made it; so that it naturally abides for ever.
1. THAT th•• 〈…〉 m•n is by its re•••d 〈…〉. It being of a spiritual natu•e 〈…〉 •ot: it needs not elements, not elementary substances to give it sufferance, or preserve its •••ng to it: it lives without fo•d or ra•me•t, or any other supplies as are requisite for the shori•g up of the body; and he•ce t•e death of the soul, is not a death of annihilation, but of misery; and the soul cannot cease to be what it is for its subs•••••, by any other power, but that of God who made it; so that it naturally abides for ever.