Samuel Willard

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. His major work was “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.

Seymour Van Dyken called Willard one of the most important preachers among the second generation of New England Puritans, one who summarized the theological thought of seventeenth century American Puritanism.