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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 36 (Question 9 cont.)
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INCONSTANT Natures are either Element or Elementaries. The former of these are Simple Natures, the other are compounded; these & Principles, those things principied of them: It was therefore necessary that the Elements should be Created first, because other Beings were to be made of them: These therefore had to E•••• tial Forms made Immediately of Nothing
THESE Elements are distributed according to their Situation, into the Upper & Lover, some ascending & moving foward the Circumference, others descending, and tending to the Cent•••• the World.
THESE Elements are distributed according to their Scituation, into the Upper & Louer, some ascending & moving foward the Circumference, others descending, and tending to the Cent•••• the World.
1. THE Upper Elements are those whose Forms being the most agile, do naturally tend to ascend: They have the noblest & most active Forms, and are therefore called the Heavens.