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. ; [Six lines of Scripture texts].

Author/creator Willard, Samuel
Other author Sewall, Joseph, 1688-1769.
Other author Prince, Thomas, 1687-1758.
Other author Van der Gucht, Gerard, 1696-1776 engraver.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoBoston in New-England : Printed by B. Green and S. Kneeland for B. Eliot and D. Henchman, and sold at their shops, MDCCXXVI. [1726]
Description2 unnumbered pages, iv, 3 pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 158, 177-666 pages, [i.e., 177-668], 581-914 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 35 cm (folio)
Supplemental ContentEvans Digital Edition
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SeriesEarly American imprints. First series ; no. 2828. ^A478749
General notePreface signed: Joseph Sewall. Thomas Prince. Boston, N.E. Novemb. 10th, 1725.
General notePages 618 and 910 misnumbered 918 and 914 in some copies.
General notePrinted in two columns. Title page printed in red and black.
General note"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 numbered over again."--p. 666 [i.e., 668], 1st count.
General noteNumerous errors in paging.
General note"The author's character ... by the late Reverend Mr. Ebenezer Pemberton ..."--3 p., 3rd count. With "Errata in the preface," p. 3.
General note"An exact list of the subscribers ..."--P. [4-6], 3rd count.
General note"A catalogue of the author's works published in his life-time."--p. [915].
References Evans 2828
Other formsMicroform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
Reproduction noteElectronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 2828).
Genre/formSermons Collections.
Genre/formSubscribers' lists.
Genre/formBooksellers' catalogues Massachusetts Boston.

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