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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
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. Zech. 7.5. Speak unto all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying when ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh month, even those seventy years, did ye at all […] unto me, even to me?
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. Zech. 7.5. Speak unto all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying when ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh month, even those seventy years, did ye at all 〈…〉 unto me, even to me?
2. IT is required of M•x, that they aim or l•v•l all their Actions to this End. It is not Sufficient that they reach it casually: for we know God will be Glorified by all, whether we will or no; but it must be intentionally: forementioned