Sermon notes, 1705.

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Sermon notes, 1705.

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John Partridge took notes on sermons written in the period 1687 to 1692. He copied them into this notebook during his senior year at Harvard in 1705. They are in scholastic form (question and answer) and consider such subjects as "the chief end of man," "the decrees of God," and "the teachings of the scriptures." These notes are nearly verbatim copies of lectures of Samuel Willard (1640-1707), vice-president of Harvard from 1700 to 1707, eventually published in his _A Compleat Body of Divinity in Two Hundred and Fifty Expository Lectures on the Assembly's Shorter Catechism ..._ (Evans 2828). The work was published in Boston by B. Green and S. Kneeland for B. Eliot and D. Henchman, 1726--twenty-one years after Partridge made his copy. Partridge apparently had some manuscript from which he was copying. In the published volume's preface, Joseph Sewall and Thomas Prince say that the sermons/lectures were in "Manuscripts [which] lay separate in several Octavos; some were Originals of the Author's own hand-writing, and others were but Transcripts from them" (p. ii).

1 v. (310 p.) ; octavo.

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