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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.
MORE particularly God is to be glorified by us,
MORE particularly God is to be glorifyed by us,
(1.) IN our Hearts: And that,
1. BY entertaining suitable Thoughts & Conceptions of him. When we employ our Minds in taking up becoming Apprehensions of God, such as are honourable, we then honour him in Heart. And indeed Honour, which is one part of our Duty & End, is properly the high Ro•m he hath in our Souls: without it all outward. Shows are hypocritical, and mere Mockery. We know therefore that God calls for the Heart, and judgeth according to it.
1. BY entertaining suitable Thoughts & Conceptions of him. When we employ our Minds in taking up becoming Apprehensions of God, such as are honourable, we then honour him in Heart. And indeed Honour, which is one part of our Duty & End, is properly the high Ro•m he hath in our Souls: without it all ourward. Shews are hypocritical, and meer Mockery. We know therefore that God calls for the Heart, and judgeth according to it.