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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.
4. THERE can be Choice of Means, without •n •ye upon the End. It is not indifferent what a Man doth, if he would reach his End▪ there must be a Suitableness in the Means, else they are lost; and that cannot be known, without applying them in our Consideration to it: It is necessary therefore for a Man in all he sets about to deliberate, and say to himself, Will God be Glorified by this! Will […] help me to the Enjoyment of him? And accordingly to choose or reject it, Gen. 39.9. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?
4. THERE can be Choice of Means, without •n •ye upon the End. It is not indifferent what a Man doth, if he would reach his End▪ there must be a Sutableness in the Means, else they are lost; and that cannot be known, without applying them in our Consideration to it: It is necessary therefore for a Man in all he sets about to deliberate, and say to himself, Will God be Glorified by this! Will 〈…〉 help me to the Enjoyment of him? And accordingly to chuse or reject it, Gen. 39.9. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?
5. THERE can be no Using the Means •••sen, Rightly, without the Consideration of the End: It is as easy to miss it in using Right Means, as in choosing of Wrong ones. A Man may not only eat, and drink, but also read, and hear, and pray, and neither honour God nor further his own Salvation: He that would not be deceived here, must lay them by the End, and frame their according to it; which cannot be without setting it before him,