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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 36 (Question 9 cont.)
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THIS Element is the Highest, next the Third Heaven: The Prin••• Mobile. and Crystalline Heaven placed above it, are Fictions of Philosophen: The Starry Heavens are feigned to be above it, whereas they are indeed it; though Philosophers mistaking it for the Third Heaven, ma•• it Quintessential; It is the Element of the Seers, as the Water is of the Fishes: It is most Light […] Active: Hence Angels are compared in it, Psal. 104.4. Who ma•eth his Angels — a flowing fire. It is the Hottest. Heat is the Prime Quality; It hath the most active and strong Form of all; It acts with the most Force which Activity is from it's Heat, by reason whereof it dissolves where Bodies; 2 Pet. 3.10 — The Plements shall melt with fervent hear, &c. And when it is condensed, or compounded together, it bums and shines, both of which we observe by Experience: It is therefore to be conceived, that God did so condense some part of this Element, to enlighten the World, and make a separation between Day & Night, for the first three Days before the Sun, &c. were made; from hence also it is that the lower World is supplied with the F•e, by which so many things are done, and witho•• which, the Life of Man would be very miserable.
THIS Element is the Highest, next the Third Heaven: The Prin••• Mobile. and Chrystalline Heaven placed above it, are Fictions of Philosophen: The Starry Heavens are feigned to be above it, whereas they are indeed it; though Philosophers mistaking it for the Third Heaven, ma•• it Quintessential; It is the Element of the S•ers, as the Water is of the Fishes: It is most Light 〈…〉 Active: Hence Angels are compared in it, Psal. 104.4. Who ma•eth his Angels — a flowing fire. It is the Hottest. Heat is the Prime Quality; It hath the most active and strong Form of all; It acts with the most Force which Activity is from it's Heat, by reason whereof it dissolyes wher Bodies;