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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.
HIS Removal is a great Judgment upon the whole Land. He was a great Blessing to it, by his faithful Warnings, Counsels, Prayers & Tears, Life & Doctrine. He was a main Pillar in our Building, which is Weakened by his fall; a main Stake in our Hedge is plucked up, which has made a wide Gap, and made the whole Wall about this Vineyard to totter. He was a great part of the Chariots and Horse-men of our Israel; a Faithful Watchman, Quick to espy Danger, and Faithful to sound an Alarm: And has often Warned this People of Evils Approaching, and against their Sins the procuring Cause of them. He was always ready to stand in the Gap in times of greatest hazard.
HIS Removal is a great Judgment upon the whole Land. He was a great Blessing to it, by his faithful Wornings, Counsels, Prayers & Tears, Life & Doctrine. He was a main Pillar in our Building, which is Weakened by his fall; a main Stake in our Hedge is pluck'd up, which has made a wide Gap, and made the whole Wall about this Vineyard to totter. He was a great part of the Chariots and Horse-men of our Israel; a Faithful Watchman, Quick to espy Danger, and Faithful to sound an Alarm: And has often Warned this People of Evils Approaching, and against their Sins the procuring Cause of them. He was always ready to stand in the Gap in times of greatest hazard.
AND it ought never to be forgotten, with what Prudence, Courage & Zeal he appeared for the Good of this People. In that Dark and Mysterious Season, when we were assaulted from the Invisible World. And how singularly Instrumental he was in discovering the Cheats and Delusions of Satan, which did threaten to stain our Land with Blood and to deluge it with all manner of Woes.
WE had scarce dried our Eyes for the loss of one *SAMUEL, but Providence opens anew the Fountain of our Tears by Afflicting us with the Death of ANOTHER. It is well if the Conjunction of their Funerals be not Portentous of further, and greater Calamities: I am sure it will be so if it be not laid to heart.