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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). NEITHER can He be his Own Last End. For.
1. THE End must be something Better than the Means that serve to it. For the Goodness of the Means as such, is nothing else but their Serviceableness ⟨p. 7⟩to the End; whereas the Goodness of the End is in it self: Thus our Saviour argues, Mat. 6.25. Therefore I say unto you, Take […] thought for your […], what ye shall […], or what ye shall drink; no• y•t […] your •ody what ye shall put on: Is […] the, […] that […], and the holy th•n rai••••?
1. THE End must be something Better than the Means that serve to it. For the Goodness of the Means as such, is nothing else but their Servicableness ⟨p. 7⟩to the End; whereas the Goodness of the End is in it self: Thus our Saviour argues, Mat. 6.25. Therefore I say unto you, Take 〈…〉 thought for your 〈…〉, what ye shall 〈…〉, or what ye shall drink; no• y•t 〈…〉 your •ody what ye shall put on: Is 〈…〉 the, 〈…〉 that , and the holy thn rai?