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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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4. WE are more moderate and indifferent in our Pursuit of all Other, but m•st insatiable in prosecution of This As to the Former. Paul guides us to a right acting about them. 1 Cor. 7.29, 30. And this I say, brethren, the time is ⟨p. 4⟩short. It remaineth, that both they that have wives, be as though had none; And they that weep, at though they wept not; and they that rejoice, at though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they posed not. As to the Latter, the Scripture describes our Pursuits of it, by the hungering, thirsting, longing, panting, fainting of the Soul after it, Psal. 42.1, 2. As the Hart panteth after the water-brooks so panteth my soul after there, O God. My soul thirsteth for God for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God!
4. WE are more moderate and indifferent in our Pursuit of all Other, but m•st insatiable in prosecution of This As to the Former. Paul guides us to a right acting about them. 1 Cor. 7.29, 30. And this I say, brethren, the time is ⟨p. 4⟩short. It remaineth, that both they that have wives, be as though had none; And they that weep, at though they wept not; and they that rejoyce, at though they rejoyced not; and they that buy, as though they possed not. As to the Latter, the Scripture describes our Pursuits of it, by the hungring, thirsting, longing, panting, fainting of the Soul after it, Psal. 42.1, 2. As the Hart panteth after the water-brooks so panteth my soul after ther, O God. My soul thirsteth for God for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God!