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  [Terribilia Dei. Remarkable judgements of God, on several sorts of offenders, in several scores of instances; among the people of New-England. Observed, collected, related, and improved; in two sermons, at Boston-lecture in the month of July 1697]
  Date of publication:
  1697
  

  Author(s):

  Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.
  Description:
  Running title: Remarkable judgments of God, related and improved. The only known copy, held by Harvard University, lacks title-page. The supplied title is taken from the reprint in Mather's Magnalia Christi Americana ..., ...
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  A brief account of the state of the province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England, civil and ecclesiastical. By a lover of his country.
  Date of publication:
  1717
  

  Author(s):

  Pemberton, Ebenezer, 1672-1717. ; Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.
  Description:
  Reprinted in: Sermons and discourses on several occasions ... by Ebenezer Pemberton, London, 1727. Erroneously attributed to Cotton Mather by Evans.
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  A call to the tempted. A sermon on the horrid crime of self-murder, preached on a remarkable occasion, / by the memorable Dr. Increase Mather. ; And now published from his notes, for a charitable stop to suicides. ; [Five lines of quotation in Latin]
  Date of publication:
  1723
  

  Author(s):

  Mather, Increase, 1639-1723. ; Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.
  Description:
  Half-title: A sermon on the crime of self murder. Caption title: Do thyself no harm. "The occasion of the publication."--p. i-ii, by Cotton Mather.
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  A cloud of witnesses; darting out light upon a case, too unseasonably made seasonable to be discoursed on.
  Date of publication:
  1700
  

  Author(s):

  Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.
  Description:
  "The case before us, is not, whether people of quality may not employ a dancing-master ... but, whether the dancing humour, as it now prevails ... be not a vanity forbidden by the values of Christianity?"--p. 1. Caption ...
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  A companion for communicants. Discourses upon the nature, the design, and the subject of the Lords Supper; with devout methods of preparing for, and approaching to that blessed ordinance. / By Cotton Mather, Pastor of a church at Boston. ; [Seven lines from Augustine]
  Date of publication:
  1690
  

  Author(s):

  Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.
  Description:
  Errata note, p. 167. Bookseller's advertisments, p. [168].
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  A dead faith anatomized. A discourse on the nature, and the danger, with the deadly symptoms of a dead faith in those who profess the faith of Christ. / By Samuel Mather, Pastor of the church at Windsor, in the colony of Connecticut. ; [One line epigram in Latin]
  Date of publication:
  1697
  

  Author(s):

  Mather, Samuel, 1651-1728. ; Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.
  Description:
  Preface signed: Cotton Mather.
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  A faithful man, described and rewarded. Some observable & serviceable passages in the life and death of Mr. Michael Wigglesworth. Late Pastor of Maldon [i.e., Malden]; who rested from his labours, on the Lords-Day, June 10th. 1705. In the seventy fourth year of his age. : And memorials of piety, left behind him among his written experiences. : With a funeral-sermon preached (for him) at Maldon; June 24. 1705. / By Cotton Mather. ; [Two lines of quotation in Latin]
  Date of publication:
  1705
  

  Author(s):

  Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728. ; Mather, Increase, 1639-1723.
  Description:
  Dedication signed: Increase Mather. Signatures: A-C^8 D1,2,3. "An appendix. Containing a few memorials of piety; faithfully extracted from the reserved papers of Mr. Michael Wigglesworth."--p. 28-48.
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  A family well-ordered. Or An essay to render parents and children happy in one another. Handling two very important cases. I. What are the duties to be done by pious parents, for the promoting of piety in their children. II. What are the duties that must be paid by children to their parents, that they may obtain the blessings of the dutiful. / By Cotton Mather. ; [Three lines from Malachi]
  Date of publication:
  1699
  

  Author(s):

  Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.
  Description:
  An address on the necessity of proper schooling, 5 p. at end.
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  A friendly debate; or, A dialogue, between Academicus; and Sawney & Mundungus, two eminent physicians, about some of their late performances. [Five lines of verse from Otway]
  Date of publication:
  1722
  

  Author(s):

  Greenwood, Isaac, 1702-1745. ; Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728. ; Walter, Thomas, 1696-1725. ; Boylston, Zabdiel, 1679-1766, dedicatee.
  Description:
  Satirical debate directed against Dr. William Douglas (Sawney) and John Williams (Mundungus), opponents of smallpox inoculation at Boston. Cf. Holmes. Attributed to Greenwood, with the collaboration of Cotton Mather, by ...
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  A glorious espousal. A brief essay, to illustrate and prosecute the marriage, wherein our great Saviour offers to espouse unto himself the children of men. And thereupon to recommend from that grand pattern a good carriage in the married life among them. : An essay proper and useful in the hands of those who travel on the noble design of espousing the souls of men unto their Saviour. But more particularly and seasonably to be presented, where a marriage is upon a celebration.
  Date of publication:
  1719
  

  Author(s):

  Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.
  Description:
  Attributed to Cotton Mather by Holmes.
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  A good man making a good end. The life and death, of the Reverend Mr. John Baily [i.e., Bailey], comprised and expressed in a sermon, on the day of his funeral. Thursday. 16.d. 10.m. 1697. / By Cotton Mather. ; [Two line epigram in Latin]
  Date of publication:
  1698
  

  Author(s):

  Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.
  Description:
  Appendix, the character of a Christian, p. 58-88. Errata note, p. 88.
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  A good master well served. A brief discourse on the necessary properties & practices of a good servant in every-kind of servitude: and of the methods that should be taken by the heads of a family, to obtain such a servant. / By Cotton Mather. ; [Two lines from Joel]
  Date of publication:
  1696
  

  Author(s):

  Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.
  Description:
  Bookseller's advertisement, p. [56].
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  A letter from the most ingenious Mr. Lodowick Rhode-Island, Febr. 1. 1691,2.
  Date of publication:
  1692
  

  Author(s):

  Ludovici, C. (Christian), 1660-1728. ; Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.
  Description:
  Caption title. Signed on p. 8: Christianus Lodowick. Addressed to "Honoured & esteemed Mr. [Cotton] Mather," who may have had it printed. Cf. Holmes, T.J. Cotton Mather, v. 2, p. 568-569. Place of publication and printer's ...
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  A letter to a friend in the country, attempting a solution of the scruples and objections of conscientious or religious nature, commonly made against the new way of receiving the small-pox. / By a minister in Boston. ; [Eight lines of Scripture quotations]
  Date of publication:
  1721
  

  Author(s):

  Cooper, William, 1694-1743. ; Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.
  Description:
  The Boston, 1730 edition, published under the title "Reply to the objections made against taking the small pox ..." has a preface signed by Cooper, in which he acknowledges his authorship. Erroneously attributed to Cotton ...
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  A letter, about a good management under the distemper of the measles, at this time spreading in the country. Here published for the benefit of the poor, and such as may want the help of able physicians.
  Date of publication:
  1713
  

  Author(s):

  Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.
  Description:
  Caption title. Written by Cotton Mather and printed at Boston in 1713. Cf. Diary of Cotton Mather, Dec. 1713.
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  A letter, about the present state of Christianity, among the Christianized Indians of New-England. Written to the Honourable, Sir William Ashhurst, governour of the Corporation, for Propagating the Gospel among the Indians, in New-England, and Parts Adjacent, in America.
  Date of publication:
  1705
  

  Author(s):

  Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728. ; Mather, Increase, 1639-1723. ; Walter, Nehemiah, 1663-1750. ; Ashhurst, William, d. 1720. ; Company for Propagation of the Gospel in New England and the Parts Adjacent in America.
  Description:
  Signed on p. 15 by Increase Mather, Cotton Mather, Nehemiah Walter. Attributed to Cotton Mather by Holmes.
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  A memorial of the present deplorable state of New-England, with the many disadvantages it lyes under, by the male-administration of their present governour, Joseph Dudley, Esq. and his son Paul, &c. : Together with several affidavits of people of worth, relating to several of the said governour's mercenary and illegal proceedings, but particularly his private treacherous correspondence with Her Majesty's enemies the French and Indians. : To which is added, a faithful, but melancholy account of several barbarities lately committed upon Her Majesty's subjects, by the said French and Indians, in the east and west parts of New-England. / Faithfully digested from the several original letters, papers, and mss. by Philopolites.
  Date of publication:
  1707
  

  Author(s):

  Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.
  Description:
  Attributed to Cotton Mather by Holmes. Printer's name and place of publication supplied by Holmes.
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  A midnight cry an essay for our awakening out of that sinful sleep, to which we are at this time too much disposed; and for our discovering of what peculiar things there are in this time, that are for our awakening. In a discourse given on a day of prayer, kept by the North-Church in Boston. 1692. / By Cotton Mather. ; Now published for the use of that church, together with a copy of acknowledgments and protestations made in pursuance of the reformation, whereto we are to be awakened. ; [One line of Latin text]
  Date of publication:
  1692
  

  Author(s):

  Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728. ; Second Church (Boston, Mass.).
  Description:
  A bibliography of Cotton Mather, p. [72].
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  A monitor for communicants. An essay to excite and assist religious approaches to the table of the Lord. : Offered by an assembly of the New-English pastors, unto their own flocks, and unto all the churches in these American colonies: with a solemn testimony to that cause of God, and religion in them.
  Date of publication:
  1715
  

  Author(s):

  Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.
  Description:
  Attributed to Cotton Mather by Holmes. Two states of gathering B noted by Holmes. One has an advertisement for Samuel Moody's The debtor's monitor at the foot of p. 24; the other has an advertisement for Jabez Earle's ...
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  A monitory and hortatory letter to those English who debauch the Indians by selling strong drink unto them written at the desire of some Christians to whom the mischiefs arising from that vile trade are matters of much apprehension and lamentation.
  Date of publication:
  1700
  

  Author(s):

  Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.
  Description:
  Attributed to Cotton Mather by Wing and NUC pre-1956 imprints. Reproduction of original in the Library of Congress.
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