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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
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THESE Gifts of Nature in him were Advanced and rendered more bright by great Improvements of hard Study, intimate Acquaintance with many of the most Celebrated Authors in the Learned World, by long Experience and constant Prayer. He was well Versed in the Principal parts of Substantial Learning, which furnished him with that Knowledge, which was requisite for a Wise Master Builder in the House & Temple of the Living God. He always affected that Learning, which was least for Pomp and Ostentation, and most for Service; the Knowledge of things more than of empty Words and Names: And he must be allowed the Character of an Uncommon Scholar; If the Knowledge of those things, which perfect the Understanding, may be allowed worthy of the title of Learning. And I think it is high Time to reject other Knowledge, which does not Better or Improve the Mind, which does not Profit, but only Amuse, as unworthy of the specious Title, at least unfit to IMPROPRIATE the Name of Learning.
THESE Gifts of Nature in him were Advanced and rendred more bright by great Improvements of hard Study, intimate Acquaintance with many of the most Celebrated Authors in the Learned World, by long Experience and constant Prayer. He was well Versed in the Principal parts of Substantial Learning, which furnished him with that Knowledge, which was requisite for a Wise Master Builder in the House & Temple of the Living God. He always affected that Learning, which was least for Pomp and Ostentation, and most for Service; the Knowledge of things more than of empty Words and Names: And he must be allowed the Character of an Uncommon Scholar; If the Knowledge of those things, which perfect the Understanding, may be allowed worthy of the title of Learning. And I think it is high Time to reject other Knowledge, which does not Better or Improve the Mind, which does not Profit, but only Amuse, as unworthy of the specious Title, at least unfit to IMPROPRIATE the Name of Learning.
DIVINITY was his Favourite Study; and in the pursuit of this most Excellent and Divine Knowledge, he engaged not only from Duty, but Inclination. And Excelled to an eminent degree in the Knowledge of the most abstruse parts of Theology. And a great Divine must of necessity be a great Clerk.