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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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A. THIS Case hath been too laxly resolved by some, and too severely Strained by others: Popish Casuists give too large Allowances to Mens carnal Corruptions, while they tell us, that a Previous Intention is enough, ⟨p. 9⟩and that if a Man at most Once a Day think of his End, it is enough; •ay an Implicit Intention may suffice. They on the other hand lay a Snare to trouble pious Consciences, who charge Sin and Hypocrisy on Men, if they be not always int••••, thinking upon their Glorifying and Enjoying of God. For a right •••ting of the Resolution of this Case, take T••se •o•••••sions.
A. THIS Case hath been too laxly resolved by some, and too severely Strained by others: Popish Casuists give too large Allowances to Mens carnal Corruptions, while they tell us, that a Previous Intention is enough, ⟨p. 9⟩and that if a Man at most Once a Day think of his End, it is enough; •ay an Implicite Intention may suffice. They on the other hand lay a Snare to trouble pious Consciences, who charge Sin and Hypocrisy on Men, if they be not always int••••, thinking upon their Glorifying and Enjoying of God. For a right •••ting of the Resolution of this Case, take T••se •o•••••sions.
1. THAT every Action in a Man's Life, that doth not Serve to this Great End, is a […] Action: Because it misseth the mark which […] was made to attain Means are profitable, if they be not made Serviceable to their Ends: And if the Chief of Subordinate Means be broken off, before it comes to the Last Link, it is lost. There may be a Civil Goodness, but there is no Theological Good in any thing that stays short of the Glory of God: That was the Vanity of their Fasts.