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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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3. THEY are Spiritual Natures or Sub••••• They are Natures, i. e. They have both Ma• ter and Form; Form they have, because they and essentially distinguished each from other: •• briel is not another Angel. And to think them Immaterial is absurd; for wh•• serves the F••• •or? Besides they have a common Kind, H••• 2.16. —The Nature of Angels— Which Community flows from hence. They are capable of Torment! they are not a mere A••, as God is, but have a Protention; they are Quantity and not Infinite; though they can contract and dilate themselves, yet they are limited to place, and haves local motion, which is not inst•ma• neous, but successive, Dan. 9.21. But they […] Spiritual, and therefore In-corporeal; they have the finest Matter; our senses cannot perceive them; Luk. 24.39. — A spirit bath not flesh and bones —. If ever they become Visible, it is by assuming a Body for the Time, without […] personal Union: And being Spirits, they are Persons, inasmuch as they are Individual Substances of a Rational Nature, or Causes by Counsel, subsisting of themselves, and hence are capable of happiness or misery.
3. THEY are Spiritual Natures or Sub••••• They are Natures, i. e. They have both Ma• ter and Form; Form they have, because they and essentially distinguished each from other: •• briel is not another Angel. And to think them Immaterial is absurd; for wh•• serves the F••• •or? Besides they have a common Kind, H 2.16. —The Nature of Angels— Which Community flows from hence. They are capable of Torment! they are not a mere A, as God is, but have a Protention; they are Quantity and not Infinite; though they can contract and dilate themselves, yet they are limited to place, and haves local motion, which is not instma neous, but successive,