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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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2. Positively. TO Glorify God is to show forth his Glory, to declare him to be most glorious. There is a declarative Glory of God, which he himself aims at in all his Works of Creation and Providence; which is the making himself known, in the Manifestation of his glorious Being and Perfections by the Foot-steps thereof, which leave a visible Print upon all: That he designed it, appears in, Prov. 1.•4. The Lord hath made all things for himself —. Rev. 4.11. Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory, and honour, and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are, and were created. That they do declare it may be seen, Psal. 19. begin. The heavens declare the glory of God: and the firmament showeth his handy work, &c. Rom. 1.19, 20. Because that when may be known of God, is manifest in them; for God hath showed it unto them. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being und•••o•d by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse. So Act 14.17. Now Man, as he was made capable of it in Creation; so he is obliged by the Law o• Gubernation, to Gather up, and Reflect back upon God the Praise and Glory of all this, by acknowledging it to him and ans• erably serving of him. Hence the Glorifying of God is expounded to us in Scripture by other equipollent terms; Showing forth his Praise. Isa. 43.21. Speaking and Talking of his Greatness & goodness, Psal. 145.10, 11, 12. Showing forth his Salvation, Psal. 96.2. Giving him his due Acknowledgement, Ver 7, 8. & ver 10. Saying among the heathen that the Lord re•g; And many the like.