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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 32 (Question 7)
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(4.) THE Great & Universal End of the […]; it is for h•s own Glory. Every Wise ••nt hath an End in is Working, and that ••d is in his Eye when he lays out his Work: ••w else shall he be able to accommodate it ••ght? For that being to be a Mean to the End, •••ot be so without a suitableness for it: Now […] there are several subordinate Ends of Crea•••es, one being made for another; yet all and very one of them are ultimately for God: That •••d made all for himself is certain, Prov. 16.4. […] Lord ••th ma•e all things for himself: yea, even the worked for the day of evil. And if so, then He purposed thus to do: God is the Best Agent, and must have the Best End: end there can be Nothing better than His G••••: This then is that to which other ends are but means: Hither then all God's Designs drive; Eph. 1.5, 6. Having predestinated us unto the •••p•i•n of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his well, To the praise of the glory of his grace—. And therefore the Wisdom of all is to be judged of according as it serves to the Advancement of this.
(4.) THE Great & Univerts End of the 〈…〉; it is for h•s own Glory. Every Wise ••nt hath an End in is Working, and that ••d is in his Eye when he lays out his Work: ••w else shall he be able to accommodate it ght? For that being to be a Mean to the End, ot be so without a sutableness for it: Now there are several subordinate Ends of Creaes, one being made for another; yet all and very one of them are ultimately for God: That d made all for himself is certain,