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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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II. MANS next Chief End to the Glorifying of God, is to ENJOY HIM FOREVER: Why these Two are joined in the Description, hath been already declared: The S•m•• is, that they are both promoved by the same Means; there is no other way to Enjoy God but by Glorifying him; no• shall they who do truly Glorify him, ever miss of Enjoying him. That we have now under Consideration, is. That in Subordination to the Glory of God, Man is nextly bo••d for the Everlasting Enjoyment of Him as his Great End. I shall not here expatiate in Explaining what is meant by Enjoying of God: The distinct opening whereof belongs to the Head of Glorification, which follows afterwards. In sum, it intends our having him to be our Portion: It therefore presupposeth our being Reconciled to him, and at Peace with him; our Union to him: And i• includes in it the Beatifical Vision and Fruition; the Derivation of all that Communicable Goodness from him unto and into us, which he hath engaged in the Promises: It grasps in all inchoated and perfected Glory. That this is Mans Great End, would need no Arguments to persuade us, had not the Fall beclouded our Understandings, and darkened that Light, which was at first in the Mind of Man, on which this Principle was Written, as with […] Sun beam: Yet there is so much of the height of Nature remaining, as may Sufficiently convince us of this Truth; and it is further confirmed by the Light of the Scriptures: and it will be made evident by these CONCLUSIONS.
II. MANS next Chief End to the Glorifying of God, is to ENJOY HIM FOREVER: Why these Two are joyned in the Description, hath been already declared: The S•m•• is, that they are both promoved by the same Means; there is no other way to Enjoy God but by Glorifying him; no• shall they who do truly Glorify him, ever miss of Enjoying him. That we have now under Consideration, is. That in Subordination to the Glory of God, Man is nextly bo••d for the Everlasting Enjoyment of Him as his Great End. I shall not here exp•tiate in Explaining what is meant by Enjoying of God: The distinct opening whereof belongs to the Head of Glorification, which follows afterwards. In sum, it intends our having him to be our Portion: It therefore presupposeth our being Reconciled to him, and at Peace with him; our Union to him: And i includes in it the Beatifical Vision and Frution; the Derivation of all that Communicable Goodness from him unto and into us, which he hath engaged in the Promises: It grasps in all inchoated and perfected Glory. That this is Mans Great End, would need no Arguments to persuade us, had not the Fall beclouded our Understandings, and darkned that Light, which was at first in the Mind of Man, on which this Principle was Written, as with Sun beam: Yet there is so much of the hight of Nature remaining, as may Sufficiently convince us of this Truth; and it is further confirmed by the Light of the Scriptures: and it will be made evident by these CONCLUSIONS.