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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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TWO things here call for our enquiry, viz. 1. What is meant by Glorifying God? 2. The Evidence that this is Man's Chief End
TWO things here call for our enquity, viz. 1. What is meant by Glorifying God? 2. The Evidence that this is Man's Chief End
[1.] WHAT is meant by Glorifying God?
A. WE ought carefully to beware of being mistaken in this Point; it being that in which our whole Life is to be employed, and upon which our whole Happiness hath it's absolute Dependence: so that an Error here spoils all, & necessitates us to live in vain. Here therefore,
A. WE ought carefully to beware of being mistaken in this Point; it being that in which our whole Life is to be emploved, and upon which our whole Happiness hath it's absolute Dependence: so that an Error here spoils all, & necessitates us to live in vain. Here therefore,