A compleat body of divinity
Subtitle: 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: 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.; American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
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: 984
Subjects: Willard, Samuel, 1640-1707.; Congregational churches -- Sermons -- Early works to 1800.; Sermons, American -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Sermons; Early works to 1800.
Notes: LC copy has bookplate of Henry H. Humphrey. Has inscription: James Allen. Accompanied by letter dated Jan. 31, 1929 from Edward Gookin to M.A. Boberts laid in.
Evans 2828
Signatures: A⁴ ***² B-V⁴ X² Y1 2A-3Z⁴ *3A-*3P⁴ *3Q² 4A-5T⁴.
Numerous errors in pagination including 351 as 349, 857 as 855, 910 as 914.
Title in red and black.
"The preface" signed: Joseph Sewall, Thomas Prince.
"Catalogue of the author's works published in his life-time": 1 leaf at end.
"The author's character, extracted out of the funeral sermon ... by ... Ebenezer Pemberton": p. 1, preceeding list of subscribers.
List of subscribers, p. [4-6] at beginning; Errata in the preface, p. 3.
LC copy imperfect: lacks engraved port. of Samuel Willard described in other copies.