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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.
IN Controversy he was a Champion, a Worthy of the first Strength, Skill and Courage. He was qualified for it by a clear Head, a cool Thought, and inflexible Principles. He was able to wield the Sword of the Spirit to the Tenor of Gainsayers; to their Confutation, tho' not always to their Conviction: And has once and again sheathed this Sword of the Spirit in the Bowels of Triumphant Errors. And was every way fit to be set for the Defence of the Gospel.
IN Controversy he was a Champion, a Worthy of the first Strength, Skill and Courage. He was qualified for it by a clear Head, a cool Thought, and inflexible Principles. He was able to weild the Sword of the Spirit to the Tenor of Ga••sayers; to their Confutation, tho' not always to their Conviction: And has once and again sheathed this Sword of the Spirit in the Bowels of Triumphant Errors. And was every way fit to be set for the Defence of the Gospel.
HE was an Excellent Casuist. Where the Perplexed and Scrupulous might have their difficulties Eased, their doubts resolved with Safety. When any Cases of Conscience came under his thought, he was wont to handle them with wise Caution and admirable Compassion: He deliberated maturely on all Circumstances, and laid the Whole by the unerring Rule, and with great Judgment determined agreeably.
HE was an Excellent Casuist. Where the Perplexed and Scrupulous might have their difficulties Eased, their doubts resolved with Safety. When any Cases of Conscience came under his thought, he was woat to handle them with wise Caution and admirable Compassion: He deliberated maturely on all Circumstances, and laid the Whole by the unerring Rule, and with great Judgment determined agreably.
ALL that knew him, and were competent Judges of his Worth, must do him the Honour & Justice, to acknowledge these Gifts were eminent in him. And these rendered him as capable as any Man to direct the Sons of the Prophets, and Young Divines in their Theological Studies; and I believe was as oft as any addressed to on this Head. His DIRECTIONS to the Candidates of the Msy, left in the hands of ay, are of great Value and Service, and will be a Testimony how safe and skilful a Guide he was.