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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]
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AN EXPOSITION OF THE ASSEMBLY's SHORTER CATECHISM: IN Two Hundred a… › Sermon 4 (Question 2)
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2. THAT if ever fallen Man recover happiness, he must be brought back again to this great End of his. As long as he is out of his read, nothing but destruction and misery are in his ways, (Rom 3.16.) He can never be truly blessed, but only in the glorifying God, and enjoying him; because happiness is only in reaching his chief end.
3. THERE is something required of man, in order to his recovering his Felicity. He is not only to be passive, but active too in this affair. There is Faith in Christ and new Obedience requisite, as will afterwards appear. As man was at first made capable of being happy in a Covenant-way: So fallen man is recovered to Blessedness in a Covenant-way. Hence the terms are declared in the Gospel […] 16.16. Rom. 8.12. He• ▪ […].
3. THERE is something required of man, in order to his recovering his Felicity. He is not only to be passive, but active too in this affair. There is Faith in Christ and new Obedience requisite, as will afterwards appear. As man was at first made capable of being happy in a Covenant-way: So fallen man is recovered to Blessedness in a Covenant-way. Hence the terms are declared in the Gospel 〈…〉 16.16. Rom. 8.12. He• ▪ 〈…〉.