bookslover
Puritan Board Doctor
Well, kids, since tomorrow is May 1, I'll start reading this:
A Complete Body of Divinity in Two Hundred and Fifty Expository Discourses on the Assembly's Shorter Catechism, Wherein the Doctrines of the Christian Religion are Unfolded, their Truth Confirmed, their Excellence Displayed, their Usefulness Improved, Contrary Errors and Vices Refuted and Exposed, Objections Answered, Controversies Settled, Cases of Conscience Resolved, and a Great Light Thereby Reflected on the Present Age by Samuel Willard; 2 volumes (Boston: B. Green and S. Kneeland, 1726).
Volume 1: Sermons 1 - 137 (preached January 31, 1687 - September 26, 1699)
Volume 2: Sermons 138 - 220 (preached October 24, 1699 - April 1, 1707)
Sermons 221 - 246 are undated. Despite the title, there are not literally 250 sermons in the book. The last of the dated sermons is from about 5 months before his death.
Total pages for both volumes: 983, two columns per page.
As you know, Williard (1640-1707) was Pastor of South Church (also known as Third Church, now known as Old South Meeting House), a Congregational Church in Boston, Massachusetts from 1678 until his death.
These volumes have been sitting in my bookcase for almost 20 years, so I guess it's about time I got around to them!
A Complete Body of Divinity in Two Hundred and Fifty Expository Discourses on the Assembly's Shorter Catechism, Wherein the Doctrines of the Christian Religion are Unfolded, their Truth Confirmed, their Excellence Displayed, their Usefulness Improved, Contrary Errors and Vices Refuted and Exposed, Objections Answered, Controversies Settled, Cases of Conscience Resolved, and a Great Light Thereby Reflected on the Present Age by Samuel Willard; 2 volumes (Boston: B. Green and S. Kneeland, 1726).
Volume 1: Sermons 1 - 137 (preached January 31, 1687 - September 26, 1699)
Volume 2: Sermons 138 - 220 (preached October 24, 1699 - April 1, 1707)
Sermons 221 - 246 are undated. Despite the title, there are not literally 250 sermons in the book. The last of the dated sermons is from about 5 months before his death.
Total pages for both volumes: 983, two columns per page.
As you know, Williard (1640-1707) was Pastor of South Church (also known as Third Church, now known as Old South Meeting House), a Congregational Church in Boston, Massachusetts from 1678 until his death.
These volumes have been sitting in my bookcase for almost 20 years, so I guess it's about time I got around to them!
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