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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
THE Art or Doctrine, which we have now under Consideration is DIVINITY, or Religion: and not only so, but the Christian Religion, or that which is suited to direct and guide fallen Man to Glory. That there is such a Doctrine is not hard to be proved: for if there […] Happiness provided for fallen Man, there […] be a Way to bring him to the Enjoyment ••at; and consequently a Rule to set him in that Way, and conduct him in it, and that is Religion.
THE Art or Doctrine, which we have now under Consideration is DIVINITY, or Religion: and not only so, but the Christian Religion, or that which is suited to direct and guide fallen Man to Glory. That there is such a Doctrine is not hard to be proved: for if there 〈…〉 Happiness provided for fallen Man, there 〈…〉 be a Way to bring him to the Enjoyment ••at; and consequently a Rule to set him in that Way, and conduct him in it, and that is Religion.
THE special Worth of this Doctrine, showing it to excel all others, discovers it's self in the End that it points Men to; and that is BLESSEDNESS, than which nothing can be more excellent or desirable.
THE special Worth of this Doctrine, shewing it to excel all others, discovers it's self in the End that it points Men to; and that is BLESSEDNESS, than which nothing can be more excellent or desirable.
THE First Question with is Answer is a ••y to all the Rest, because they refer to Divinity no further than they refer Hither: it is therefore necessary to state this Case rightly: for which purpose, I shall first take an account of the Thing armed at in the Question, and then proceed to give the Right meaning of the Answer.