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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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7. GOD & He Only is such an Object, in the Enjoyment of whom, there is perfect Satisfaction and Blessedness. That the Creature •ath i• not in it, hath been Discovered; But still Man is not at an utter loss, because he may find it in God: The full demonstration of this belongs to a following Question: The Scripture Sufficiently informs us in this Truth, see, Psal 16. ult. Thou wilt show me the path of life: in thy presence is fullness of joy, at thy right •and there are pleasures for evermore. 36.9. For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light. So see Eph. 3.20. There is with him enough to fill all the•• Desires, Psal. 81.10. I am the Lord thy God which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill […].
7. GOD & He Only is such an Object, in the Enjoyment of whom, there is perfect Satisfaction and Blessedness. That the Creature •ath i• not in it, hath been Discovered; But sti•l Man is not at an utter loss, because he may find it in God: The full demonstration of this belongs to a following Question: The Scripture Sufficiently informs us in this Truth, see, Psal 16. ult. Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy, at thy right •and there are pleasures for evermore. 36.9. For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light. So see Eph. 3.20. There is with him enough to fill all the•• Desires, Psal. 81.10. I am the Lord thy God which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill 〈…〉.