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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. THAT all Mankind are Naturally carried forth in Quest of Happiness, […] their Last End, This Principle is so engraver in the Nature of Man, that all the Mischief which the Fall hath done him, hath not deprived him of. It is true, he hath lost the Knowledge of what true Happiness is, in a great measure, and is utterly at a loss in regard of the Way to it, Rom. 3.17. And the way of p••ce have they not know•. But he hath such Notions of the thing, and Apprehensions of the Capacity of his Nature to enjoy it, of the Necessity he stands in of it, and what a Misery it will be to go without it, that he makes it the Aim of all his Actions; It is the Bottom of his Projects and Designs; and tho' the far greater Number of Men take most wretched Courses to compass it, yet this is it they would be at in all, Psal. 4.6. There •e many that say, Who will show us any good? Luk. 12.19. And I will say to •y soul, Soul, th••e host much goods laid up for many years; take thine case, eat, drink, and be merry.
2. THAT all Mankind are Naturally carried sorth in Quest of Happiness, 〈…〉 their Last End, This Principle is so engraver in the Nature of Man, that all the Mischief which the Fall hath done him, hath not deprived him of. It is true, he hath lost the Knowledge of what true Happiness is, in a great measure, and is utterly at a loss in regard of the Way to it, Rom. 3.17. And the way of p••ce have they not know•. But he hath such Notions of the thing, and Apprehensions of the Capacity of his Nature to enjoy it, of the Necessity he stands in of it, and what a Misery it will be to go without it, that he makes it the Aim of all his Actions; It is the Bottom of his Projects and Designs; and tho' the far greater Number of Men take most wretched Courses to compass it, yet this is it they would be at in all,