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  A brief exposition of the whole book of Canticles, or Song of Solomon lively describing the estate of the church in all the ages thereof, both Jewish and Christian, to this day ... / written by that learned and godly divine, John Cotton ...
  Date of publication:
  1642
  

  Author(s):

  Cotton, John, 1584-1652.
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  Reproduction of original in Yale University Library.
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  A briefe exposition with practicall observations upon the whole book of Ecclesiastes by that late pious and worthy divine, Mr. John Cotton ... ; published by Anthony Tuckney ...
  Date of publication:
  1654
  

  Author(s):

  Cotton, John, 1584-1652. ; Tuckney, Anthony, 1599-1670.
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  Reproduction of original in Yale University Library.
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  A conference Mr. John Cotton held at Boston with the elders of New-England 1. concerning gracious conditions in the soule before faith, 2. evidencing justification by sanctification, 3. touching the active power of faith : twelve reasons against stinted forms of prayer and praise : together with the difference between the Christian and antichristian church / written by Francis Cornwell ...
  Date of publication:
  1646
  

  Author(s):

  Cotton, John, 1584-1652. ; Cornwell, Francis.
  Description:
  The second part: A description of the spirituall temple, or, The spouse prepared for the Lambe, the Lord Jesus" has special t.p. "To the reader", signed Fran. Cornwell, describes this "as a learned treatise of Master John ...
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  A congregational church is a catholike visible church, or, An examination of M. Hudson his vindication concerning the integrality of the catholike visible church wherein also satisfaction is given to what M. Cawdrey writes touching that subject, in his review of M. Hooker's Survey of church discipline / by Samuel Stone ...
  Date of publication:
  1652
  

  Author(s):

  Stone, Samuel, 1602-1663. ; Mather, Samuel, 1626-1671. ; Cotton, John, 1584-1652.
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  Cawdrey's remarks on Mr. Hooker's Survey of church discipline occur in his Inconsistencies of the independent way. "To the reader" signed: Samuel Mather. "To my Reverend dear brother, M. Samuel Stone" by John Cotton (p. ...
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  A coppy of a letter of Mr. Cotton of Boston, in New England, sent in answer of certaine objections made against their discipline and orders there, directed to a friend vvith the questions propounded to such as are admitted to the church-fellowship and the covenant it selfe.
  Date of publication:
  1641
  

  Author(s):

  Cotton, John, 1584-1652.
  Description:
  Reproduction of original in Thomason Collection, British Library.
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  A defence of Mr. John Cotton from the imputation of selfe contradiction, charged on him by Mr. Dan. Cavvdrey written by himselfe not long before his death ; whereunto is prefixed, an answer to a late treatise of the said Mr. Cavvdrey about the nature of schisme, by John Owen ...
  Date of publication:
  1658
  

  Author(s):

  Cotton, John, 1584-1652. ; Owen, John, 1616-1683. Of schisme.
  Description:
  Cawdrey first attacked Cotton in 1645, in a work entitled, "Vindiciae clavium." Cotton answered in "The way of the Congregationall churches cleared," 1648. Cawdrey then published "The inconsistencie of the independent ...
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  A discourse about civil government in a new plantation whose design is religion. Written many years since, by that Reverend and worthy Minister of the Gospel, John Cotton, B.D. ; And now published by some undertakers of a new plantation, for general direction and information.
  Date of publication:
  1663
  

  Author(s):

  Cotton, John, 1584-1652. ; Davenport, John, 1597-1670.
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  Erroneously attributed to John Davenport by Cotton Mather and by Evans. For a discussion of authorship see: American Historical Review 37 (1932): 267-269. Errata note, p. 24.
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  A letter of Mr. John Cottons, teacher of the Church in Boston in New-England, to Mr. Williams, a preacher there wherein is shewed that those ought to be received into the Church who are Godly, though they doe not see nor expressely bewaile all the pollutions in church-fellowship, ministery, worship, government.
  Date of publication:
  1643
  

  Author(s):

  Cotton, John, 1584-1652. ; Williams, Roger, 1604?-1683.
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  Reproduction of the original in the Harvard University Library.
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  A modest and cleer ansvver to Mr. Ball's discourse of set formes of prayer. Written by the reverend and learned John Cotton, B.D. and teacher of the Church of Christ at Boston in New-England. Published for the benefit of those who desire satisfaction in that point
  Date of publication:
  1642
  

  Author(s):

  Cotton, John, 1584-1652.
  Description:
  A reply to: Ball, John. A friendly triall of the grounds tending to separation. Publication date conjectured by Wing. Running title reads: Advertisements upon the discourse of set forms of prayer. Reproduction of original ...
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  A platform of church discipline gathered out of the Word of God: and agreed upon by the elders: and messengers of the churches assembled in the Synod at Cambridge in New England : To be presented at the churches and Generall Court for their consideration and acceptance, in the Lord. : The eight moneth [sic] anno 1649 : [Seven lines from Psalms]
  Date of publication:
  1649
  

  Author(s):

  Cambridge Synod ; Mather, Richard, 1596-1669. ; Cotton, John, 1584-1652.
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  Based on the draft prepared by Richard Mather. The preface is by John Cotton. Cf. Holmes. The date of the Synod given on the title page is a misprint for 1648. For a discussion of the several states see: Sternberg, P.R., ...
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  A platform of church-discipline gathered out of the Word of God; and agreed upon by the elders and messengers of the churches assembled in the Synod at Cambridge in N.E. : To be presented at the churches and Generall Court for their consideration and acceptance, in the Lord. : The eight month anno 1649 : [Six lines from Psalms]
  Date of publication:
  1671
  

  Author(s):

  Cambridge Synod ; Mather, Richard, 1596-1669. ; Cotton, John, 1584-1652.
  Description:
  Based on the draft prepared by Richard Mather. The preface is by John Cotton. Cf. Holmes. The Synod adopted the Platform in 1648. The date was incorrectly given as 1649 in the first edition (Holmes 51-A) and the error ...
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  A practicall commentary, or an exposition with observations, reasons, and vses upon the first Epistle generall of John by ... John Cotton ...
  Date of publication:
  1658
  

  Author(s):

  Cotton, John, 1584-1652. ; R. D. (Roger Drake), 1608-1669. ; Scott, Chr. (Christopher), fl. 1655.
  Description:
  Advertisement: prelim. p. [8]-[9]. "To the reader" signed: Chr. Scott, dated Octob. 15, 1655. "Reader" signed: Roger Drake, dated Feb. 26, 1657. "The table ..." [i.e. index]: p. [2]-[7] at end. Reproduction of original in ...
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  A sermon preached by the Reverend, Mr. John Cotton, teacher of the First Church in Boston in New-England. Deliver'd at Salem, 1636. : To which is prefixed, a retraction of his former opinion concerning baptism, utter'd by him immediately preceeding the sermon emitted. He dyed on the 23. day of December, 1652. Entring [sic] on the 68 year of his age. : [Seven lines from I Corithians]
  Date of publication:
  1713
  

  Author(s):

  Cotton, John, 1584-1652.
  Description:
  (Evans-TCP ; no. N01347) Transcribed from: (Readex Archive of Americana ; Early American Imprints, series I ; image set 1603) Images scanned from Readex microprint and microform: (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 1603)
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  A treatise I. Of faith. II. Twelve fundamental articles of Christian religion. III. A doctrinal conclusion. IV. Questions and answers upon church-government. Taken from written copies long since delivered by the late Reverend Mr. John Cotton, teacher of the First Church in Boston, in New-England.
  Date of publication:
  1713
  

  Author(s):

  Cotton, John, 1584-1652.
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  Printer's name suggested by Evans.
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  A treatise of the covenant of grace, as it is dispensed to the elect seed, effectually unto salvation. Being the substance of divers sermons preached upon Act. 7. 8. / by that eminently holy and judicious man of God, Mr. John Cotton, teacher of the church at Boston in N.E.
  Date of publication:
  1659
  

  Author(s):

  Cotton, John, 1584-1652.
  Description:
  License to print on verso of A1. With final advertisement leaf. Annotation on Thomason copy: "May"; "26 May". Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
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  An abstract of laws and government wherein as in a mirrour may be seen the wisdome & perfection of the government of Christs kingdome accomodable to any state or form of government in the world that is not antichristian or tyrannicall / collected and digested ... by John Cotton ... ; and now published after his death by William Aspinall.
  Date of publication:
  1655
  

  Author(s):

  Cotton, John, 1584-1652. ; Aspinwall, William, fl. 1648-1662.
  Description:
  Errata : p. [3], 3rd grouping. Reproduction of original in the Union Theological Seminary Library, New York.
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  An abstract or the lawes of New England as they are novv established
  Date of publication:
  1641
  

  Author(s):

  Cotton, John, 1584-1652.
  Description:
  Caption title reads: An abstract of the laws of New England. This abstract was proposed by John Cotton but never adopted as the law of Massachusetts. Cf. Mass. hist. soc., Collections, 3rd series, v. 8, p. 191-215; Winsor, ...
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  An exposition upon the thirteenth chapter of the Revelation by that reverend and eminent servant of the Lord, Mr. John Cotton ... ; taken from his mouth in short-writing, and some part of it corrected by himself soon after the preaching thereof ; and all of it since viewed over by a friend to him ... wherein some mistakes were amended, but nothing of the sense altered.
  Date of publication:
  1656
  

  Author(s):

  Cotton, John, 1584-1652. ; Allen, Thomas.
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  Address "To the reader" dated and signed: Norwich, the 1. day of the 1. month, 1654/5. Thomas Allen. Errata: p. [6] and [9]-[10] at end. Reproduction of original in Thomason Collection, British Library.
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  Certain queries tending to accommodation and communion of Presbyterian & Congregationall churches by Mr John Cotton ... ; published by a friend to whom the author himselfe sent them over not long before his death.
  Date of publication:
  1654
  

  Author(s):

  Cotton, John, 1584-1652.
  Description:
  Reproduction of original in the Yale University Library.
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  Christ the fountaine of life: or, Sundry choyce sermons on part of the fift chapter of the first Epistle of St. John. Preached by that learned judicious divine, and faithfull minister of Jesus Christ, Mr. John Cotton B.D. now preacher at Boston in New-England. Published according to Order.
  Date of publication:
  1651
  

  Author(s):

  Cotton, John, 1584-1652.
  Description:
  Annotation on Thomason copy: "June. 4th". Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
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