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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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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.
HE was a Judicious Textuary. Like Apollos a Man mighty in the Scripture. His common Public Discourses were a Demonstration of this; but especially those Judicious and Elaborate COMMENTARIES, made in the School of the Prophets, upon several whole Books of the Divine Oracles, remain as a lasting Monument of this Skill.
HE was a Judicious Textuary. Like Apollos a Man mighty in the Scripture. His common Publick Discourses were a Demonstration of this; but especially those Judivious and Elaborate COMMENTARIES, made in the School of the Prophets, upon several whole Books of the Divine Oracles, remain as a lasting Monument of this Skill.
HIS Knowledge in Systematical Divinity was celebrated by all. He had a Body of Divinity well digested in his head. And was careful to hold fast the Form of sound Words. His Knowledge was not like a Light in a Dark Lantern: But out of the Treasury of his ⟨p. 2⟩Head and Hea•• was able to communicate to others. He had a great Dexterity incon•irming Truths by incontestable Arguments, and to set them in an advantageous Light; to Explain them fully, and Apply them with the greatest Closeness and Pertinency. This was observable in the discharge of the common Duties of his Pastoral Care: But this his Knowledge appeared with a peculiar Lustre in his CATECHETICAL LECTURES, which if Published, would be found One of the BEST Bodies of Divinity, that has been known.