N02384:11
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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The PREFACE.
THE late Reverend and Learned Author of the following Lectures, has been so universally and justly admired and celebrated in these Parts of the World, for his eminent Capacity Piety Wisdom, his deep and perspicuous Insight into the most difficult Points of Divinity, and his most judicious and accurate manner of expressing and clearing, as well as most useful application of them; that there's no need of our setting forth his Character, either for the Information of his Country-men, or their Inducement to peruse the large Composure that now presents it self to their View. We need only say,— 'Tis Mr. Willard's,—and 'tis enough to Recommend it to their high Respect and diligent Attention; and that it falls not short of his other excellent Performances. which as well as his rare Accomplishments and Conduct while alive, have deservedly gained him so great a Fame & Esteem among us.
THE late Reverend and Learned Author of the following Lectures, has been so universally and justly admir'd and celebrated in these Parts of the World, for his eminent Capacity Piety Wisdom, his deen and perspicuous Insight into the most difficult Points of Divinity, and his most judicious and accurate manner of expressing and clearing, as well as most useful application of them; that there's no need of our setting forth his Character, either for the Information of his Country-men, or their Inducement to peruse the large Composure that now presents it self to their View. We need only say,— 'Tis Mr. Willard's,—and 'tis enough to Recommend it to their high Respect and diligent Attention; and that it falls not short of his other excellent Performances. which as well as his rare Accomplishments and Conduct while alive, have deservedly gain'd him so great a Fame & Esteem among us.
AND as for Strangers that may come to the sight of the present Work, we need only refer them to the Extract out of the Funeral Sermon annexed, wherein the Author's Superior Character is very justly drawn; in order to their entertaining such an Apprehension of Him, as will be enough to induce them to look into the succeeding Lectures, and discover more than has even yet been said of his great and excellent Abilities in searching out Explaining and Applying the important Truths of Revealed Religion.