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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.
BUT These Two are joined together in the Answer for these Reasons.
BUT These Two are joyned together in the Answer for these Reasons.
1. BECAUSE God is pleased to put them together in his Word, under the nation of Work and Reward. God having put into Man a natural Desire after Happiness or Well-being, makes use of it to help him in his Duty: and therefore having made him for: His Glory, quickens him to it by a Promise of Happiness in his so doing. Hence the Scripture is full of such Passages wherein the Command and Promise are connected; nor would fallen man seek God's Glory, had he not this Encouragement.
1. BECAUSE God is pleased to put them together in his Word, under the nation of Work and Reward. God having put into Man a natural Desire after Happiness or Well-being, makes use of it to help him in his Duty: and therefore having made him for: His Glorry, quickens him to it by a Promise of Happiness in his so doing. Hence the Scripture is full of such Passages wherein the Command and Promise are connected; nor would fallen man seek God's Glory, had he not this Encouragement.
2. BECAUSE they are inseparable in Practice. A Man cannot seek God's Glory aright, but In so doing, he also seeks his Own Salvation; and this follows from the former And the Conjunction between them in Practice is thus stated; viz God doth, as it were, say to the Children of Men. You have a desire to be Happy; that you can only be in the Enjoyment of Me; I am the only adequate Object of the Happiness of the Children of Men; But if you will truly glorify me, in it you shall be Happy; Do you take care for My Honour, and I will secure Your Felicity. And by this means it comes to pass, that all the Rules which God gives Men to Glorify him become through' this strong Connection, the sure Guide of Man to Eternal Glory. Hence that forementioned,