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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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Fifthly, THE Negative Pri••• […] gation of any Principle Materi••, […] of Nothing. He had, as no T••l• to […] so […] work upon; and this is that […] it take a Creatures indeed. This […] to the Doctrines of Faith; and […] comprehend it; […] was here p•••ied and nonplussed; many of them taught the works of Creation so far, as to acknowledge there was a Time when there were as particular Creatures, not Forms of things, neither Elementaries, nor any Elements; nothing but a Rule and indigested Heap or Ch•es of formless Matter. on which they confess the Eternal Agent did work, and out of which he educed all the Species of Beings, giving them their several Forms and Qualities, and appointed them their several Ends and Uses; but still this Material Principle of the World, they thought to be Co-eternal with God. The ground of which Opinion was, a Maxim taken up in Heathen ⟨p. 110⟩[…] from whe•• they co•ed […] it to be an u•ter I•••••• in the […], that ever any Being should be pr••••ced from a bare […]. But t•is Principle is n•t […] true. If we consider the •••i•ary ••••se of Nature, or look open Nature as […] co•••tated: now things are not ordinarily Made, but are of some Pre•e••••ient Matter. But if we speak of Nature in its Constitution, or seek it to the First Order or Condition of Being, t•ere was a Supernatural Work in that; and though Nature cannot, yet the God of Nature can and th produce Something out of Nothing; and out of that Something. All thng. New that this World was made of Nothing, is evident, 1. BECAUSE it was Crammed; and we have heard that the Nature of Creation, is to give the whole of its Being to the thing: The Apostle tells us […] the Article of our Faith, about the Creation, Heb 11.3. Th faith we under ad that the world: were framed by the word of God, so that things […] are soon, were […] made of things wh […] appear. And see,