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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.
HIS DESCENT was Honourable, from a Sage Patriot in our Israel; whose Wisdom assigned him a Seat at the Council-Board, and his Military Skill, and Martial Spirit entitled him to the Chief Place in the Field: But in no External regard could be more Honourable than in being the FATHER of such a SON.
HIS DESCENT was Honourable, from a Sage Patriot in our Israel; whose Wisdom assigned him a Seat at the Council-Board, and his Military Skill, and Martial Spirit intituled him to the Chief Place in the Field: But in no External regard could be more Honourable than in being the FATHER of such a SON.
IN Him Bountiful Heaven was pleased to cause a Concurrence of all those Natural and Acquired, Moral and Spiritual Excellencies, which are necessary to constitute a Great Man, a profound Divine, a very considerable Scholar, and an Heavenly Christian. In the light and influence of these Perfections he appeared as a Star of the First Magnitude in the Orb of the Church.
THE God of Nature was pleased with a Liberal Hand to bestow on him those Natural Intellectual Endowments, which laid the Foundation of great Improvement in Knowledge. And did from his Youth presage Uncommon Service for God and his People, which his Master had designed him for. In Natural Endowments, he appeared as the Elder Son among many Brethren: In these very few, if any, could pretend to stand upon a Level with him. The Natural Capacity of his Soul was of that Distinction, that it seemed an undeniable Confutation of the Doctrine of the Equality of Souls; and left it no longer Problematical.
THE God of Nature was pleased with a Liberal Hand to bestow on him those Natural Intellectual Endowments, which laid the Foundation of great Improvement in Knowledge. And did from his Youth praesage Uncommon Service for God and his People, which his Master had designed him for. In Natural Endowments, he appeared as the Elder Son among many Brethren: In these very few, if any, could pretend to stand upon a Level with him. The Natural Capacity of his Soul was of that Distinction, that it seem'd an undeniable Confutation of the Doctrine of the Equality of Souls; and left it no longer Problematical.