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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.
IT is a Han••••y Sebuke to the whole Ministry. By this stroke of Heaven a considerable part of that Strength, Wisdom and Beauty is gone, and a Cloud drawn over their Glory. Their Un•on, which •spen• their Strength and Glory, in the most Critical Seasons, and Hours of Temptation, is well known in a great measure to be owing to his Wisdom and Temper And God grant! That we may not too soon feel the sad Effects of this blow from Heaven upon that Order. I cannot but here observe, That the Younger Minsters always repaired to him, and found him their te•der Father, their faithful Counsellor, sure Guide, and powerful Guardian. These he cherished under his Wings, and was tender of their Persons and good Names: And often interposed to put by those Thrusts that were made to wound their Reputation; and they have now soft the Best Friend that many of them ever had a this side Heaven.
IT is a Han••••y Sebuke to the whole Ministry. By this stroke of Heaven a considerable part of that Strength, Wisdom and Beauty is gone, and a Cloud drawn over their Glory. Their Un•on, which •spen• their Strength and Glory, in the most Critical Seasons, and Hours of Temptation, is well known in a great measure to be owing to his Wisdom and Temper And God grant! That we may not too soon feel the sad Effects of this blow from Heaven upon that Order. I cannot but here observe, That the Younger Minsters always repaited to him, and found him their te•der Father, their faithful Counsellor, sure Guide, and powerful Guardian. These he cherish'd under his Wings, and was tender of their Persons and good Names: And often interposed to put by those Thrusts that were made to wound their Reputation; and they have now soft the Best Friend that many of them ever had a this side Heaven.