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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 30 (Question 5)
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LIFE, according as it refers to the Creature, is the Act of the Soul upon the Body; • more generally, a power is the […] of self-••tion in its proper Place: Whatever hath a• internal Principle of Motion in it, is accounted to have Life: Now Life is attributed to God by way of Analogy: And as the Rational Life is of all the most noble, or that which same call Intellectual, we therefore ascribe that to Him: and of this Life of God, we may take this brief Description;
LIFE, according as it refers to the Creature, is the Act of the Soul upon the Body; • more generally, a power is the 〈…〉 of self-••tion in its proper Place: Whatever hath a• internal Principle of Motion in it, is accounted to have Life: Now Life is attributed to God by way of Analogy: And as the Rational Life is of all the most noble, or that which same call Intellectual, we therefore ascribe that to Him: and of this Life of God, we may take this brief Description;
IT is that whereby God is in Himself, the, Fountain or Original of all […] Actings.
IT is that whereby God is in Himself, the, Fountain or Original of all 〈…〉 Actings.
Here observe.