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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 17 (Question 4 cont.)
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3. SPIRITS are the most Agile, Active, or Nimble beings among Creatures. An Angel is very speedy in his journeying: they are God's swift Messengers to do his will, and go post on all errands that he hath to employ them about. The swiftest things among Elementary & corporeal substances are slow and dull compared with them. The Lightning is one of the nimblest things we discern by our senses. The motion of the Primum Mobile is such as some have conceived is very rapid; but all short of Angelical Agility. One of them can travel from the Third Heaven to the Earth in a few hours. (Dan. 9.21, 22.) And God must needs be the most agile being, because he is a pure Act. This is metaphorically expressed. Psal. 18.10. And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind. And to this agility belongs unweariedness: Angels are never tired, no nor is God, Isa. 40.28. Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth fainteth not, neither is weary?
3. SPIRITS are the most Agile, Active, or Nimble beings among Creatures. An Angel is very speedy in his journeying: they are God's swift Messengers to do his will, and go post on all errands that he hath to employ them about. The swiftest things among Elementary & corporeal substances are slow and dull compared with them. The Lightning is one of the nimblest things we discern by our senses. The motion of the Primum Mobile is such as some have conceived is very rapid; but all short of Angelical Agility. One of them can travel from the Third Heaven to the Earth in a few hours. (Dan. 9.21, 22.) And God must needs be the most agile being, because he is a pure Act. This is metaphotically expressed. Psal. 18.10. And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind. And to this agility belongs unweariedness: Angels are never tired, no nor is God, Isa. 40.28. Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth fainteth not, neither is weary?