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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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1. Because there is many times a Subordination of Means: It is so in every Art: there being a great many Steps to be taken in the Way to that End, which is firstly and principally aimed at: Yea, Nature it self follows such an order ⟨p. 3⟩Hos. 2.21, 22. A man doth one thing for another, and that for another; and so till he rests in something, beyond which he hath no respect: which Subordination produceth manifold Ends; because that for which another thing is done, bears the respect of an End unto that which was done for it. Thus a Carpenter cuts one piece of Timber for a Groundsel, another for a Post, &c. though all be for the House. 2. BECAUSE a Man bears Divers Capacities or Relations, to which he is to refer his relative Actions, and to aim at the Discharge of them. A Man may be a Member of a Civil or Ecclesiastical Society; and he is as such, to seek the Good and Prosperity of that Society; and what he doth, as such a Member, ought to look that way. He may have the care of a Family upon him, to provide for, and discharge many Offices to; and hence must make that his End in many things which he doth: To this purpose is that of the Apostle, 1 Cor. 7.33, 34. Man hath a bodily Life to take care for, Food and Raiment to provide, and for th•s is appointed his Labour in his particular Calling; and he is to make it his next End, eccl. 6.7. All the labour of ••m is for his month.
1. Because there is many times a Subordination of Means: It is so in every Art: there being a great many Steps to be taken in the Way to that End, which is firstly and principally aimed at: Yea, Nature it self follows such an order ⟨p. 3⟩Hos. 2.21, 22. A man doth one thing for another, and that for another; and so till he refts in something, beyond which he hath no respect: which Subordination produceth manifold Ends; because that for which another thing is done, bears the respect of an End unto that which was done for it. Thus a Carpenter cuts one piece of Timber for a Groundsel, another for a Post, &c. though all be for the House. 2. BECAUSE a Man bears Divers Capacities or Relations, to which he is to refer his relative Actions, and to aim at the Discharge of them. A Man may be a Member of a Civil or Ecclesiaftical Society; and he is as such, to seek the Good and Prospenrity of that Society; and what he doth, as such a Member, ought to look that way. He may have the care of a Family upon him, to provide for, and discharge many Offices to; and hence must make that his End in many things which he doth: To this purpose is that of the Apostle,