N02384:110
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.
1. WHAT is that End, which Man is by the Precept commanded to as […] at: Or, What it is that God would have Man to make his End? Mans being fallen short by •n, both not […] the Rule: his Duty still abides: the Force of the Command is not Elemented: whether he doth so […] no practically, yet it is his Duty to make this his End; God appointed him so to do, and it is his Sin to do otherwise; for which, reason those two things are put together, Rom. 3.23. For all have finner, and come short of the glory of God.
1. WHAT is that End, which Man is by the Precept commanded to as 〈…〉 at: Or, What it is that God would have Man to make his End? Mans being fallen short by •n, both not 〈…〉 the Rule: his Duty still abides: the Force of the Command is not Elemented: whether he doth so 〈…〉 no practically, yet it is his Duty to make this his End; God appointed him so to do, and it is his Sin to do otherwise; for which, reason those two things are put together, Rom. 3.23. For all have finner, and come short of the glory of God.
2. WHAT is that End which doth most properly fate the […] of Man? What is most proper and national for him••• fo••••? and in the making […] whereof, be can end discover […] Wisdom? According So that, Job 28.28. And unto man he said, Behold, the jeer of the Lord, that is Wisdom, and to depart from evil is understanding. For, as when God wrought the works of Creation, he had a Design in every Creature which he made; so he therein displayed his Infinite Wisdom, in that he suited all the Creature Natures and Ends one is another. This then is e End which Man, if he knows himself, and his Natural Constitution, will propose to himself, as being made for it, and all his faculties were suited to it, before such time as Sin had depraved them.