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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.
HE applied himself to Wounded Consciences with great Skill, Faithfulness and Tenderness. He searched their Wounds to the bottom, and made Application of Terror or Comfort, as their State called for, and as became a Wise, Tender and Faithful •••sician: And he knew how to be a Son of Thunder to the Secure and Hardened; and a Son of Consolation to the Contrite and Broken in Spirit.
HE applyed himself to Wounded Consciences with great Skill, Faithfulness and Tenderness. He search'd their Wounds to the bottom, and made Application of Terror or Comfort, as their State called for, and as became a Wise, Tender and Faithful •••sician: And he knew how to be a Son of Thunder to the Secure and Hardned; and a Son of Consolation to the Contrite and Broken in Spirit.
HIS Public Prayers were always Pertinent & Pathetical, animated with the Spirit of Devotion; and in them an Uncommon Co•••ass of Thought was observable. In the Whole of his Work he was Laborious, ca•••l to redeem Time, and was instant in season & out of season in his Master's Service.
HIS Publick Prayers were always Pertinent & Pathetical, animated with the Spirit of Devotion; and in them an Uncemmon Co•••ass of Thought was observable. In the Whole of his Work he was Laborious, ca•••l to redeem Time, and was instant in season & out of season in his Master's Service.
HIS Affection & Tenderness to THIS HIS DEAR FLOCK was singular. He might have said with the Apostle, that he could have imparted with the GOSPEL his own SOUL to them.