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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]
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AN EXPOSITION OF THE ASSEMBLY's SHORTER CATECHISM: IN Two Hundred a… › Sermon 34 (Question 9)
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2. THE Original of Nations and stem that the World had a Beginning, and is m•• Eternal If are look into the Antiquity of the World, we shall find where, and when it was first Peopled; and the pearer we come the Place from whe••• the Nations spread themselves abroad the greater Monuments of Antiquity are to be found: Yea, by the help of the Scriptures we may count up how many Years it is, since the First Man was made; and it is unreasonable to think the World should stand so many Thousands of Ages before it had a Man in it.
3. THE Original of Histories gives further light to this. Consult all Chronologies, and they will confute the Notion of the World's Eternity, The Scripture History runs us up the highest of any; and indeed it begins with the Beginning, and that comes considerably short of Six Thousand Years. The most Ancient History of the Gentiles begins with the Monarchy of the Assyrians, and the Reign of Ni•••s which is supposed to be Contemporary with the Life of Abreb••: all that they speak of before, is meedy Mythological; and indeed those very Records are confused Fragments, and very Fab•l•m: And if there were no Original of the World, why did not the Poets sing of other things before the Funerals of Troy. If there have been in•menrable Ages, why have we no Relation of their Action?
3. THE Original of Histories gives further light to this. Consult all Chronologies, and they will confute the Notion of the World's Eternity, The Scripture History runs us up the highest of any; and indeed it begins with the Begining, and that comes considerably short of Six Thousand Years. The most Ancient History of the Gexties begins with the Monarchy of the Assyrians, and the Reign of Ni•••s which is supposed to be Contemporary with the Life of Abreb: all that they speak of before, is meedy Mythological; and indeed those very Reconds are confused Fragments, and very Fablm: And if there were no Original of the World, why did not the Poets sing of other things before the Funerals of Troy. If there have been inmenrable Ages, why have we no Relation of their Action?