Author: Samuel Willard

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-12-12

Total Pages: 1000

ISBN-13: 9780332683645

Excerpt from 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 F R o M foch noble Principles it comes to pafs that the Revd. Author ever maintains the fame mol't agreable mixture of Life and Gravity in all his Writings, as us'd to appear in his Looks and Converlation among us with a Mind continually exalted above earthly and trivial things, the pompous {hows of Religion which many groveling mindsare filled up with, and even above the fudden and unfieady Flights thereof which many others are'glad to rife up into, The Holy Temper of his Mind appears to be flzeady and even and tho' his Imagination was al ways full of Spirit and Vigour 5 yet it continually wrought with an uhaffeeted and due Decomm, and be for ever rel'train'd and rul'd it with a correeter and periourjudgment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.