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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
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3. WHAT is that End which, if attained by him, will make him Happy? Man is a Creature that was made capable of Happiness: which no other inferior Creature, can ever attain unto. Hence God was pleased to appoint him such an End, as in the attainment whereof he might be Blessed for ever. Every other thing by reaching it's End, attains to it's Goodness; but Man by his, gains his Felicity: Hence that. Isa. 56.2. Blessed is the man that doeth this, and the son of man that layeth hold on it: that keepeth the so• bath from polluting is, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil. Jam. 1 25. But whose […] into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, be being not a forgetful hearer, but a […] of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. And if he falls short of it, he makes himself Miserable.
3. WHAT is that End which, if attained by him, will make him Happy? Man is a Creature that was made capable of Happiness: which no other inferiour Creature, can ever attain unto. Hence God was pleased to appoint him such an End, as in the attainment whereof he might be Blessed for ever. Every other thing by reaching it's End, attains to it's Goodness; but Man by his, gains his Felicity: Hence that. Isa. 56.2. Blessed is the man that doeth this, and the son of man that layeth hold on it: that keepeth the so• bath from polluting is, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil. Jam. 1 25. But whose 〈…〉 into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, be being not a forgetful hearer, but a 〈…〉 of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. And if he falls short of it, he makes himself Miserable.