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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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3. TRUE Happiness doth properly consist in Two Things, viz. Well-Doing, and Well-Being. Happiness in Scripture Language is frequently called Life; and the Philosopher tells us, that Life is an Act with Delight; WELL-DOING belongs to Mans Felicity, because his Happiness is in Attaining his End, and that is mainly in Glorifying God; which is by •upraxy or Well-Doing. Vanity is opposed to Happiness, E••l. 1.2. Now Vanity is the Loss of ones End; Happiness must therefore be in the Attaining it: Hence that forementioned Isa. 56.2. Man being made for God, it must be a main Part of his Happiness to Serve and Glorify him: So David, Psal. 84.4. Blessed are they that dwell in thy house; they will be still praising thee. WELL-BEING also is requisite to Felicity: Misery therefore and Blessedness are frequently set in Opposition: and therefore it is that the Scripture Promises are so full of such Encouragements to Love ⟨p. 8⟩and Serve God, as contain in them the Well-Being of the Creature.
3. TRUE Happiness doth properly consist in Two Things, viz. Well-Doing, and Well-Being. Happiness in Scripture Language is frequently called Life; and the Philosopher tells us, that Life is an Act with Delight; WELL-DOING belongs to Mans Felicity, because his Happiness is in Attaining his End, and that is mainly in Gorifying God; which is by •upraxy or Well-Doing. Vanity is opposed to Happiness, E••l. 1.2. Now Vanity is the Loss of ones End; Happiness must therefore be in the Attaining it: Hence that forementioned Isa. 56.2. Man being made for God, it must be a main Part of his Happiness to Serve and Glorify him: So David, Psal. 84.4. Blessed are they that dwell in thy house; they will be still praising thee. WELL-BEING also is requisite to Felicity: Misery therefore and Blessedness are frequently set in Opposition: and therefore it is that the Scripture Promises are so full of such Encouragements to Love