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]

Samuel Willard 1640–1707

printed by B. Green and S. Kneeland for B. Eliot and D. Henchman, 1726

[2], iv, 3, [3], 158, 177-666, [i.e., 177-668], 581-914, [2] p. ; 35 cm. (fol.) · 1.0M words · Evans 2828

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Samuel Willard, A compleat body of divinity in two hundred and fifty expository lectures on the… (Boston in New-England:, 1726). Evans-TCP N02384.

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Title as printed

Author

Samuel Willard 1640–1707

Printer

B. Green and S. Kneeland

Bookseller

B. Eliot and D. Henchman

Year

1726

Imprint

Boston in New-England: : Printed by B. Green and S. Kneeland for B. Eliot and D. Henchman, and sold at their shops., MDCCXXVI. [1726]

Size

[2], iv, 3, [3], 158, 177-666, [i.e., 177-668], 581-914, [2] p. ; 35 cm. (fol.)

Words

1,047,534

Catalogue

Evans 2828

Text

Evans-TCP N02384

Notes

Preface signed: Joseph Sewall. Thomas Prince. Boston, N.E. Novemb. 10th, 1725.
Pages 618 and 910 misnumbered 918 and 914 in some copies.
Printed in two columns. Title page printed in red and black.
"The reader is desired to observe, that by reason of several presses being made use of in this large work, it has fallen out (as is frequent in such cases) that the pages for a considerable way, are numbered over again."--p. 666 [i.e., 668], 1st count."The reader is desired to observe, that by reason of several presses being made use of in this large work, it has fallen out (as is frequent in such cases) that the pages for a considerable way, are numbred over again."--p. 666 [i.e., 668], 1st count.
Numerous errors in paging.
"The author's character ... by the late Reverend Mr. Ebenezer Pemberton ..."--3 p., 3rd count. With "Errata in the preface," p. 3.

Licence

CC0 1.0 (TCP transcription); underlying work in the public domain

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Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

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