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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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6. THE Corruption also of things in the World. d•th […] that it had a Beginning. For of things had not a Beginning, how could they End: Now in this World we see things are daily Corrupted; Men and other Creatures are going to their Dissolution: Time and Change are Com•••itants, Eternal things are Immutable […] •••t which hath a Death, had a Earth, the• which goes did come; fleeing things are Tem••••••, dissoluble things were set together; and we are told of the very Earth and •en••••, what they we like to come in tho' for the present they seem to abide through all these Changes, 2. Pet 3.10. but the day of the Lord will come as a chief on the night; in the which the be••e•n shed pass ••ry with a great •••se, and the […] shall me•• serve•• bear, the earth also, and the works th•• are therein shall be […] up. If then the World had a Beginning it was Created; and this will ••se further appear in the sequel of this Discourse.
6. THE Corruption also of things in the World. d•th 〈…〉 that it had a Beginning. For of things had not a Beginning, how could they End: Now in this World we see things are daily Corrupted; Men and other Creatures are going to their Dissolution: Time and Change are Com•••itants, Eternal things are Immutable 〈…〉 •••t which hath a Death, had a Earth, the• which goes did come; fleeing things are Tem, dissoluble things were set together; and we are told of the very Earth and en, what they we like to come in tho' for the present they seem to abide through all these Changes, 2. Pet 3.10. but the day of the Lord will come as a chief on the night; in the which the been shed poss ry with a great se, and the shall me serve bear, the earth alse, and the works th are therein shall be up. If then the World had a Beginning it was Created; and this will se further appear in the sequel of this Discourse.