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
Subtitle: 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: 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.
Contributors: Sewall, Joseph, 1688-1769.; Prince, Thomas, 1687-1758.
Series: American culture series -- 500.1.
Publisher: Printed by B. Green and S. Kneeland for B. Eliot and D. Henchman, and sold at their shops
Published: 1726
Place of publication: Boston in New-England
Language: eng
Number of pages: 914
Subjects: Congregational churches -- Doctrines; Congregational churches -- Controversial literature; Sermons, American
Genres: Controversial literature.
Notes: Signatures: A6, B-V4, X2, Y1, Aa-Zz4, Aaa-Zzz4, *Aaa-*Ppp4, *Q992, Aaaa-Zzzz4, Aaaaa-Ttttt4.

Error in paging: p. 351 numbered 349.

Title in red and black; initials; tail-piece.

In rebinding, the t.-p. was mounted and the lower left line border restored in pencil on the paper on which the t.-p. is mounted.

"The preface" signed: Joseph Sewall, Thomas Prince.

"It is the first folio volume, other than Laws, and the largest work up to this time printed in the United States."--C. Evans, Amer. bibl., v. 1, p. 365, no. 2828.

The portrait of Rev. Samuel Willard engraved by Van der Gucht frequently found as frontispiece is not original with the work according to a letter from Harvard College Library regarding it and other bibliographical information mounted on fly-leaf.

"An exact list of the subscribers according to the order of the alphabet": [3] p. preceding p. 1.

Ex libris Henry B. Humphrey.

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich., University Microfilms [n.d.] (American culture series, Reel 500.1)

"A catalogue of the author's works": 1 leaf at end.