N02384:164
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.
2. BECAUSE Men is the Creatures Next Eng. That therefore cannot be His Last End: That that should be made for Man's Service; and that yet Man should be to serve that, implieth a Contradiction: But God gave all these things to Man to Rule over them, Gen. 1.28. And God blessed them, & God said were them, Be fruitful, & •••ti••ly, & replenish the earth & subdue it: and have dominion ever the fish of the sea, & over the soul of the air, & ever every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
3. BECAUSE the Creature cannot Satisfy him. Man's Last End and his Objective Happiness are the same: And the Wise-Man when he would prove that this cannot be the Creature, renders that as a sufficient Reason, Ecc•. 1.8. All things are full of labour, man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing; not the ear filled with •••ring. And that is far from being a Last End, which when enjoyed leaves the Man Miserable, Mat. 16.26. For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole wor•d, & ••se his own soul?
3. BECAUSE the Creature cannot Satisfy him. Man's Last End and his Objective Happiness are the same: And the Wise-Man when he would prove that this cannot be the Creature, renders that as a sufficient Reason, Ecc•. 1.8. All things are full of labour, man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing; not the ear silled with •••ring. And that is far from being a Last End, which when enjoyed leaves the Man Miserable,