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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
AN EXPOSITION OF THE ASSEMBLY's SHORTER CATECHISM: IN Two Hundred a… › Sermon 11 (Question 3)
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1. THERE is no happiness for man, but in the enjoyment of God. He only can be man's objective felicity: This the Psalmist well understood when he said, as Psal. 73 25. Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire besides thee. Every other thing, that man trusts to for his well being, becomes to him a lying Vanity.
2. THERE is no enjoying God, but in the way of glorifying him. It is an honour that he bestows upon none but those that honour him. To have him for their portion is the recompense which God bestows upon such as make it their great design to glorify him. Psal. 50. ult. Whose ••••reth praise, glorified me• and to him that ••dereth his conversation aright, will I show the salvation of God. Our fruition of God is the proper fruit of our being entirely de••ed to him.
2. THERE is no enjoying God, but in the way of glorifying him. It is an honour that he bestows upon none but those that honour him. To have him for their portion is the recompense which God bestows upon such as make it their great design to glorify him. Psal. 50. ult. Whose ••••reth praise, glorified me• and to him that ••dereth his conversation aright, will I sh•w the salvation of God. Our fruition of God is the proper fruit of our being entirely de••ed to him.