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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...

To come then to the Declaration of Christian Religion: Tell me, Wherein doth the Happiness of Man consist? Not* in himself, nor in any other Created Thing; but only† in God his Creator, who alone being infinite, is able to fill the Heart of Man. How may we come to enjoy God? By being joyned unto him, and so partaking of his Goodness. For Happiness is to be found by* acquaintance and fellowship with him, who is the Fountain of Blessedness: Man† so knowing him, or rather being known of him, that heǁ
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