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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.
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.
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 Past•r 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 thro' these Churches.
AT first in his younger Years, his Master committed to his Pastoral Care a Flock in a more obscure part of this Wilderness: But so great a Light was soon observed through' the whole Land: And his Lord did not design to bury him in obscurity, but to place him in a more eminent Station, which he was qualified for. The Providence that occasioned his Removal to this Place was an Awful Judgment upon the whole Land; yet was Eventually a Mercy in this respect, that it made way for the Translation of this bright Star to a more Conspicuous Orb; where his Influence was more Extensive and Beneficial; and in this it was a great Blessing to this Congregation, to this Town, nay, to all New-England.
AT first in his younger Years, his Master committed to his Pastoral Care a Flock in a more obscure part of this Wilderness: But so great a Light was soon observed thro' the whole Land: And his Lord did not design to bury him in obscurity, but to place him in a more eminent Station, which he was qualifyed for. The Providence that occasioned his Removal to this Place was an Awful Judgment upon the whole Land; yet was Eventually a Mercy in this respect, that it made way for the Translation of this bright Star to a more Conspicuous Orb; where his Influence was more Extensive and Beneficial; and in this it was a great Blessing to this Congregation, to this Town, nay, to all New-England.