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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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NO Man had a deeper sense of the Poverty, Impotency and Depravation of Humane Nature by the Apostasy; nor any a clearer view of the Fullness of that Provision made in Christ for the Si•ers Righteousness and Salvation. The Body of S•• was his constant Burden, which he bewailed, groaned under, and expressed his longing Desire to be •iced from in some of his latest hours. Meditation, which gives Life and Power to Grace, […] his Exercise and Delight; and to what good purpose he performed this, may be seen in many SACRAMENTAL MEDITATIONS, penned for his own Use, which are left behind him. He undoubtedly lived under the View of the UNSEEN WORLD, which he is now gone to, and is filled with the Glory of.
NO Man had a deeper sense of the Poverty, Impotency and Depravation of Humane Nature by the Apostacy; nor any a cleater view of the Fulness of that Provision made in Christ for the Si•ers Righteousness and Salvation. The Body of S•• was his constant Burden, which he bewailed, groaned under, and expressed his longing Desire to be •iced from in some of his latest hours. Meditation, which gives Life and Power to Grace, 〈…〉 his Exercise and Delight; and to what good purpose he performed this, may be seen in many SACRAMENTAL MEDITATIONS, peaned for his own Use, which are left behind him. He undoubtedly lived under the View of the UNSEEN WORLD, which he is now gone to, and is filled with the Glory of.
THESE Gifts and Graces in Conjunction made him in a great degree Equal to the Station his Lord had fixed him in. And this was the Stage on which they appeared with beauty, and acted their part with glory. All that has been said, in describing the Evangelical Pastor under the Doctrine, belong to his Character; whose Picture therein I was designedly drawing. And his Wisdom and Fidelity in their most comprehensive Sease, in Feeding and Ruling the House of God, are justly Celebrated through' these Churches.