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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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Here Two things, 1. HIS Life is His own, He borrowed it not. It is not a derivative Life, but it is originated in Himself; He is beholden to none for it• And herein he differs from other Living things; They live, but they are not all Life: They live, but it is a borrowed Life which they enjoy; They received it from another to whom they own Acknowledgement of its Derivation, but none gave Him His. 2. HE is the Author of Life to all other Living Beings. They are but little Springs of Life which they have, and they come from th• Fountain; Acts 17 25, 28. — Seeing he giveth ⟨p. 96⟩to all life and breath, and all things. For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring. It is by his Favour or Indulgence that they live, but he depends on the Courtesy of none for His.
Here Two things, 1. HIS Life is His own, He borrowed it not. It is not a derivative Life, but it is originated in Himself; He is beholden to none for it• And herein he differs from other Living things; They live, but they are not all Life: They live, but it is a borrowed Life which they enjoy; They received it from another to whom they own Acknowledgment of its Derivation, but none gave Him His. 2. HE is the Author of Life to all other Living Beings. They are but little Springs of Life which they have, and they come from th• Fountain; Acts 17 25, 28. — Seeing he giveth ⟨p. 96⟩to all life and breath, and all things. For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring. It is by his Favour or Indulgence that they live, but he depends on the Courtesy of none for His.