Research Catalog

Title

A compleat body of divinity [electronic resource] : 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 & vice 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.

Author

Willard, Samuel, 1640-1707.

Publication

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

Details

Additional Authors

• Prince, Thomas, 1687-1758.
• Sewall, Joseph, 1688-1769.
• Gale (Firm)

Description

[2],iv,3,[3],158,177-666[i.e., 177-668],581-914,[2]p.; 2⁰.

Uniform Title

Eighteenth century collections online.

Subject

• Willard, Samuel, 1640-1707
• Westminster Assembly (1643-1652)
• Sermons, American > Early works to 1800
• Congregational churches > Sermons > Early works to 1800
• Bible > Sermons > Early works to 1800

Genre/Form

Sermons.

Note

• Preface signed: Joseph Sewall. Thomas Prince. Boston, N.E. Novemb. 10th, 1725.
• Pp. 618 and 910 misnumbered 918 and 914 in some copies.
• Printed in two columns.
• Titlepage 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 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.
• "An exact list of the subscribers .."--P. [4-6], 3rd count.
• "A catalogue of the author's works published in his life-time."--p. [915].
• Reproduction of original from British Library.

Indexed In (note)

• Evans
• English Short Title Catalog

Reproduction (note)

• Electronic reproduction.

OCLC

• 642788669
• W30456

Author

Willard, Samuel, 1640-1707.

Title

A compleat body of divinity [electronic resource] : 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 & vice 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.

Imprint

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

Series

Eighteenth century collections online.

Indexed In:

Evans, 2828

Reproduction

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

Indexed In:

English Short Title Catalog, W30456.

Connect to:

Full text online - available from home with a valid library card and onsite at NYPL

Place of Publication

United States Massachusetts Boston.

Added Author

Prince, Thomas, 1687-1758. Author

Sewall, Joseph, 1688-1769. Author

Gale (Firm)