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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. WE pursue all other inferior Ends for the sake of the Last, but the Last for it's Own sake. Religion doth hot disallow those, but only regulates them: It gives them their pace, and, if we do so too, we do well. And this is done, when we endeavour so to follow them, as to help and encourage us in following that, and not to hinder us; When we labour, both to carry that on notwithstanding the other, and to forward that by the other; And when we have brought them thither, there we rest Hence that, 1 Pet. 4.11. If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man min•ster de••h t• do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ i• to whom be praise & dominion for ever & ever, Amen.
3. WE pursue all other ••feriour Ends for the sake of the Last, but the Last for it's Own sake. Religion doth hot disallow those, but only regulates them: It gives them their pace, and, if we do so too, we do well. And this is done, when we endeavour so to follow them, as to help and encourage us in following that, and not to hinder us; When we labour, both to carry that on notwithstanding the other, and to forward that by the other; And when we have brought them thither, there we rest Hence that, 1 Pet. 4.11. If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man min•ster de••h t• do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorifyed through J•sus Christ i• to whom be praise & dominion for ever & ever, Amen.