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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.
1. WE have an End, which we pay the Respect of a Chief End unto. There is One so by Appointment: and except we look upon One as so practically, we must needs be in on Error. That Man that hath no more Love to nor is specially carried cut after One more than all other, hath no Chief, and therefore is on a false bottom: Hear the Psalmist, Psal. 73.23. Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire besides thee.
1. WE have an End, which we pay the Respect of a Chief End unto. There is One so by Appointment: and except we look upon One as so practically, we must needs be in on Error. That Man that hath no more Love to nor is specially carryed cut after One more than all other, hath no Chief, and therefore is on a false bottom: Hear the Psalmist, Psal. 73.23. Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire besides thee.
2. WE have made choice of that to be our Last End, which God hath Commanded us so to do. There is but One; and if we be not fallen upon that, we labour under a Delusion: for there it no other, the Obtaining whereof is able to render us truly Happy. God hath not left it to Man's Arbitrary Choice, so set up what End he will, but hath shown him what is good and directed him to fix upon it; Deut. 30.19. I cell heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life & de•th, […] • •sing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live.
2. WE have made choice of that to be our Last End, which God hath Commanded us so to do. There is but One; and if we be not fallen upon that, we labour under a Defusion: for there it no other, the Obtaining whereof is able to render us truly Happy. God hath not left it to Man's Arbitrary Choice, so set up what End he will, but hath shewn him what is good and directed him to fix upon it;