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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 there are but a very sew that known what they were made for: If the Lives & Practices of Men may be a Rule for us to judge of their Principles by, we may safely conclude, that either they understand not, or do not consider (which is called Ignorance in Scripture) what Errand God sent them into the World about: How woefully are the Children of Men mistake about their Ends? They ••• pose they were made for nothing […] gratify their own Concupiscence, […] this World's Goods, to drown themselves in Pleasures […] up the ••na••es of this World's […] seek an Happiness under the […] Glory of God, and everlasting […] of that, […]. And may […] these to be woefully mis•••ble? The Apostle joy •s these Two together, Rom. 3 16, 17. Destruction ••d misery ere in their ways: And the way of peace have they not known.
1. THAT there are but a very sew that known what they were made for: If the Lives & Practices of Men may be a Rule for us to judge of their Principles by, we may safely conclude, that either they understand not, or do not consider (which is called Ignorance in Scripture) what Errand God sent them into the World about: How wofully are the Children of Men mistake about their Ends? They ••• pose they were made for nothing 〈…〉 gratify their own Concupiscence, 〈…〉 this World's Goods, to drown themselves in Pleasures 〈…〉 up the ••na••es of this World's 〈…〉 seek an Happiness under the 〈…〉 Glory of God, and everlasting 〈…〉 of that, 〈…〉. And may 〈…〉 these to be wofully misble? The Apostle joy s these Two together,