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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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4. THAT Well-Being which will amount to Happiness can be nothing l•ss than the Enjoyment, of so much real and enduring Goodness, as the Creature may fully and finely rest satisfied in. David describes Happiness by Satisfaction, Psal. 36.8.63.5. And that which cannot Happify a Man, is called that which cannot satisfy, Isa. 55. […]. Felicity is called Rest. Ma•. 11.29. But till all the Reachings of the Soul are gratified, till all its Appetites are filled, it cannot rest, it will be in Motion as long as it feels any Want.
4. THAT Well-Being which will amount to Happiness can be nothing l•ss than the Enjoyment, of so much real and enduring Goodness, as the Creature may fully and finelly rest satisfied in. David describes Happiness by Satisfaction, Psal. 36.8.63.5. And that which cannot Happify a Man, is called that which cannot satisfy, Isa. 55. 〈…〉. Felicity is called Rest. Ma•. 11.29. But till all the Reachings of the Soul are gratified, till all its Appetites are filled, it cannot rest, it will be in Motion as long as it feels any Want.
5. THAT the Object of Mans Happiness is out of himself, Man cannot be his own Felicity: He is […] dependant Creature: His Being and his Blessedness are two things: He cannot dwell at home: He doth not enjoy in himself a Self sufficiency. Man in his best and most perfect state of Integrity was to seek his Well-Being out of himself: He was not made Happy, but only Capable of being so by Closing in with his Object. Fallen Man then, who is not only not Happy, but become extremely Miserable, is under a Necessity of going abroad to seek for Good. Neither can the Body or Soul be at Rest, till they meet with and fall upon an Object that may give them Satisfaction. This is it that hath made the Whole World a Company of Seekers, asking for Good,