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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 35 (Question 9 cont.)
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II. OF the Angels take this Description: They are a great Company of Spiritual Natures, or Substances, Created on purpose to be ministering Spirits unto God. We may take the Explication in these particulars;
II. OF the Angels take this Description: They are a great Company of Spiritual Natures, or Substances, Created on purpose to be ministring Spirits unto God. We may take the Explication in these particulars;
1. THAT the Angels were Created, it evident by Scripture, which numbers them among God's Creatures; Psal. 148.2, with 5th. Col. 1.16. For by him were all things created that are i• Heaven, &c. That they were Created in the first moment of Time, together with the Third Heaven, we have heard.
2. THERE is a great Company of them: Luk. 2.13. —A multitude of the heavenly boast. Matth. 26.53. — More than twelve Legions — Acts 12.22. — An innumerable Company—. In regard of us they are Innumerable, tho' God […] ••th their Number and their Names.
2. THERE is a great Company of them: Luk. 2.13