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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

Signatures: A***²B-VX²Y1 2A-3Z*3A-*3P*3Q²4A-5T · Numerous errors in pagination including 351 as 349, 857 as 855, 910 as 914. Note included: "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 · T.p. printed in red and black · Title in double line border · "The preface" signed: Joseph Sewall, Thomas Prince · Includes "Catalogue of the author's works published in his life-time": 1 leaf at end, p. [915] · "The author's character, extracted out of the funeral sermon ... by ... Ebenezer Pemberton": p. 1, preceeding list of subscribers · Includes list of subscribers, p. [4-6] at beginning (third count) · Errata in the preface, p. 3 (first count) · "It is the first folio volume, other than Laws, and the largest work up to this time printed in the United States."--cf. Evans, Amer. bibl., v. 1, p. 365, no. 2828 · John Adams Library copy imperfect: lacks engraved port. of Samuel Willard described in other copies · John Adams Library copy has bookplate: John Adams Library, in the Custody of the B

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