Description:
Book titled "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 Samuel Willard (1640-1707) who was pastor of the the Third Church or Old South Church in Boston from 1678-1707 and acting President with the nominal title of vice-president of Harvard College from 1701-1707. His magnum opus, "A Compleat Body of Divinity," which was published posthumously in 1726, was the largest book ever printed in New England at the time The publishers are listed as "Boston in New-England: Printed by B. Green and S. Kneeland for B. Eliot and D. Henchman, and Sold at their Shops, 1726."
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