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“What is that which all Men especially desire? Eternal Life and Happiness.” So begins the question and answer format that James Ussher uses with great effect in A Body of Divinity: or, the Sum and Substance of the Christian Religion. Considered to be one of the classic works on Reformation theology, Ussher’s book was heavily resourced during the Westminster Assembly. Full of spiritual gems and...

1 TIM. 4:15 Meditate upon these things; give thy self wholly to them, that thy profiting may appear to all. WHAT is that which all Men especially desire? Eternal Life and Happiness. How do Men look to obtain Happiness? By Religion: Which is a thing so proper to Man, that it doth distinguish him more from Beasts than very Reason, that is made his form. For very Beasts have some sparkles or resemblance of Reason, but none of Religion. Is Religion
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