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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...

CHRISTIAN Reader, I do here present and commend unto thee a Book of great worth and singular use, which was written and finished about 60 years since: The Author whereof is well known to be so universally eminent in all Learning, and of that deep Knowledge and Judgment in Sacred Divinity, that he transcendeth all Elogies and Praises which I can give him. I commend it unto thee (Christian Reader) under a twofold Notion. The first respecteth the Subject Matter of this whole
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