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Samuel Willard (1640-1707) was a New England puritan, teacher at Boston’s South Church, and vice president of Harvard College. “Like Apollos, a man mighty in the Scripture,” his theology is both rich and deep. This was his major work, “A Complete Body of Divinity in Two Hundred and Fifty Expository Lectures.” It is a commentary on the Westminster’s Shorter Catechism, and was posthumously printed in Boston in 1726. From the original title page: 
“A Complete Body of Divinity in two hundred and fifty expository lectures on the Assembly's Shorter Catechism wherein the doctrines ...

"The times are very dangerous when professors generally take up with a form of godliness and deny the power of it." This work by Samuel Willard and updated and edited by Mike Christian is a series of sermons on 2 Timothy 4:5, "Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof." It is a warning very pertinent to the times in which the church today finds itself. Samuel Willard (1640-1707) was a New England puritan Born in 1640 at Concord, Massachusetts, Samuel Willard was one of the most important preachers among the second generation of New England Puritans. He graduated Harvard ...

In this work, Samuel Willard (1640-1707) expounds 1 John 3:2, pointing to the unseen glory of the children of God and explains in detail our present state of adoption. “The words of the text are a fixed conclusion against all the misgiving objections of flesh and blood, establishing the truth of our present state of adoption, without any doubting or questioning of it.” Mr. Willard describes what it means to be the sons of God, what is the glorious privilege of this relation, and how we may have assurance of our own state. Included with this is three other sermons by the author: The ...

Samuel Willard (1640-1707) was a New England puritan This book is a series of expository sermons preached on Psalm 32 at South Church in Boston sometime before 1700. In these sermons, Mr Willard deals with the essential doctrines of justification and sanctification, and thus presents how one might be happy now and forever. Born in 1640 at Concord, Massachusetts, Samuel Willard was one of the most important preachers among the second generation of New England Puritans. He graduated Harvard College in 1659 and went on to pastor two different churches, the church in Groton and then Boston’s ...

This book is a series of 28 sermons on the Parable of the Prodigal from Luke 15. "The main scope of this parable is to set forth the rich grace of God to miserable self-undone sinners, and the great pleasure which he takes in their conversion. It therefore presents us with the pattern of a grievous sinner, and discovers to us, both what he is before conversion, and how he is converted, and what welcome he finds with God upon his return unto him." Samuel Willard (1640-1707) was a New England puritan Born in 1640 at Concord, Massachusetts, Samuel Willard was one of the most important ...

The Checkered State of the Gospel Church was originally published in 1701 and was "in part preached" by Samuel Willard to his congregation in Boston on September 18th, 1701. He demonstrates that the condition of the church under the gospel dispensation, will always be a mixture of light and darkness, and that this is in accordance with God's sovereign purposes, and that there will be a glorious state to come before the closing of time. Willard encourages the true Christian that all shall be well, even when the times look the darkest; that God is still in control, and he will surely bring ...

This book is the substance of several sermons preached by Samuel Willard (1640-1707) for the help of dark souls laboring under divine withdrawings, taken from Psalm 30:7, "Thou didst hide thy face, and I was troubled."

History records few individuals as brilliant, powerful, and ruthless as Julius Caesar. Born into the Roman aristocracy, he surpassed the reputation of his family and altered the history of Rome and the Mediterranean world. When Caesar was born in 100 B.B., Rome was a city-state with a republican form of government. When he died in 44 B.C., Rome was on its way to becoming an empire. In those short 56 years, Caesar conquered the Gauls, began the Roman conquest of Britain, and campaigned from Spain to Egypt.

Lewis and Clark is an informative introduction to the famous expedition. Personally selected by President Thomas Jefferson, Captain Meriwether Lewis was assigned to lead an expedition to the West, where the United States had just completed the Louisiana Purchase land transaction with France. Lewis selected William Clark to accompany him, and as leaders of the Corps of Discovery, the men became the first to find an overland route to the Pacific Ocean, and more.