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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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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 1 Cor. 10.31. The Nature of an End, to be pursued by a Voluntary Agent, requires it: without this Intention there can be no Prosecution.
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 Glorifyed by all, whether we will or no; but it must be intentionally: forementioned 1 Cor. 10.31. The Nature of an End, to be pursued by a Voluntary Agent, requires it: without this Intention there can be no Prosecution.
3. THERE can be no Application to the Use of Means, without Thinking upon the End. A Man my make use of things: but not as Means to his Chief End, unless his Mind be upon it: For it is the End that puts him upon the Using Means; It is the only Moral Motive that excites him Except a Man think that he was made for God's Glory, and to seek his own Salvation, he will never enquire how this may be done. Isa. 1.3.