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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 19 (Question 4 cont.)
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1. IT hath a Beginning. Time is that which meets the Creature at its Origination; that which was not, must have a date set to its rise and entity: and that is the first Article of time; hence, when we read of a Creation, we also read of a beginning, (Gen. 1.1.) which proves them to be the offspring of time. 2. IT hath a Succession. Time is a measured duration; hence the Creatures duration is measured by it successively; time is not all at once, but it flows by degrees: time is not a standing, but a moving thing, and it is always in motion, without any cessation: on this account we have those partly natural, and partly civil Months, Years, which serve to compute how long it is since the beginning of such things existence, or action, or by which we keep its Annals. 3. IT hath an Ending too. This is the Periodical term of time, in respect to the Creature, when it hath gone through' the stage of Action, and puts off its being again, then its time is at an end, and when there is no more of the thing, it lays off this respect too. Time keeps the Creature company, as long as it keeps its being, and then it leaves it.
1. IT hath a Beginning. Time is that which meets the Creature at its Origination; that which was not, must have a date set to its rise and entity: and that is the first Article of time; hence, when we read of a Creation, we also read of a beginning, (Gen. 1.1.) which proves them to be the offspring of time. 2. IT hath a Succession. Time is a measured duration; hence the Creatures duration is measured by it successively; time is not all at once, but it flows by degrees: time is not a standing, but a moving thing, and it is always in motion, without any cessation: on this account we have those partly natural, and partly civil Months, Years, which serve to compute how long it is since the beginning of such things existence, or action, or by which we keep its Annals. 3. IT hath an Ending too. This is the Periodicall term of time, in respect to the Creature, when it hath gone thro' the stage of Action, and puts off its being again, then its time is at an end, and when there is no more of the thing, it lays off this respect too. Time keeps the Creature company, as long as it keeps its being, and then it leaves it.