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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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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, Psal. 4.6.
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 •imself 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 e•treamly 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, Psal. 4.6.
6. THAT the whole Creation affords no such Object, the Fruition whereof can make a Man Happy. And the Reason is, because they cannot Satisfy: So far are they from Satisfying the Rational, that they cannot do it to the Sensitive Soul; and for that Cause the Wise, man argues them to be Vanity,