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.
Willard, Samuel,1640-1707.
Boston in New-England : printed by B. Green and S. Kneeland for B. Eliot and D. Henchman, and sold at their shops,
1726.
"An exact list of the subscribers .."--P. [4-6], 3rd count.
"The author's character .. by the late Reverend Mr. Ebenezer Pemberton .."--3 p., 3rd count. With "Errata in the preface," p. 3.
"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
Numerous errors in paging.
Pp. 618 and 910 misnumbered 918 and 914 in some copies.
Preface signed: Joseph Sewall. Thomas Prince. Boston, N.E. Novemb. 10th, 1725.
Printed in two columns.
Titlepage in red and black.
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