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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
AN EXPOSITION OF THE ASSEMBLY's SHORTER CATECHISM: IN Two Hundred a… › Sermon 64 (Question 19 cont.)
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2. HE hath lost those pleasures of his […] which he was at the first possessed of. When God had made man, He placed him in a gander planted for him with His own hand, when all suitable delights were provided him: and it was an emblem of that delectable life which ⟨p. 225⟩Man should have led in that world. It was called ••en, which fig•ines, pleasure, jacu• •ity, delectableness, the •ivers of it, were rivers of pleasures, for to t•em the Psalmist alludes, Psal. 36.8. Th•• s••• make them drink of the river of thy p•as••es. Hi• life should have been every way easy and comfortable to E•m, but it is now become otherwise; he is ta••d out of paradise into the wide world, and this is a misery: for life is truly life no t•••er than it is delectable.
2. HE hath lost those pleasures of his 〈…〉 which he was at the first possessed of. When God had made man, He placed him in a gander planted for him with His own hand, when all suitable delights were provided him: and it was an emblem of that delectable life which ⟨p. 225⟩Man should have led in that world. It was called ••en, which fig•ines, pleasure, jacu• •ity, delectableness, the ivers of it, were rivers of pleasures, for to tem the Psalmist alludes,