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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
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 Author's CHARACTER Extracted out of the Funeral Sermon on his much lamented Death, By the late Reverend Mr. Ebenezer Pemberton his Colleague, from Matth. 24.45, 46,— Towards the Close—.
THIS necessarily brings me to the SORROWFUL SUBJECT, which has been the occasion of my present Meditations: To take a view of that Awful Rebuke of Heaven upon this Whole LAND, and on this CONGREGATION in particular, in the sudden Departure of that eminent MAN OF GOD, who has been for so long a time the Light, Joy and Glory of this Place: By whose Translation God has given us reason to a great degree to take up that Lamentation; The joy of our heart is censed, our Dance is turned into Mourning; The Crown is fallen from our heads; For THIS our heart is faint, and our eyes are dim.
I must freely confess, I never had any fondness for Funeral Encomiums; unless when Gifts and Graces have been Eminent and Distinguishing; when the Honour of Christ the fountain from whence they flowed, Justice to the Dead, and the Good of the Living, do demand them; and when the Merits of the Departed leave no room, at least no necessity for the paint of Flattery.
I must freely confess, I never had any fondness for Funeral Encomiums; unless when Gifts and Graces have been Eminent and Distinguishing; when the Honour of Christ the fountain from whence they flow'd, Justice to the Dead, and the Good of the Living, do demand them; and when the Merits of the Departed leave no room, at least no necessity for the paint of Flattery.