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  [Conscience the best friend upon earth ... ]
  Date of publication:
  1699
  

  Author(s):

  Stubbes, Henry, 1606?-1678.
  Description:
  The only known copy, held by the John Carter Brown Library, is imperfect. Title and imprint supplied by Bristol. Not in Wing.
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  [Daily meditations: or Quotidian preparations for and considerations of death and eternity begun July 19. 1666. By Philip Pain: who lately suffering shipwrack, was drowned.]
  Date of publication:
  1682
  

  Author(s):

  Pain, Philip, d. 1668? ; Johnson, Marmaduke, d. 1674. ; Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618.
  Description:
  The only known copy, held by the New York Public Library, lacks the title page. Tentatively identified as the 1682 "second edition" recorded as Evans 327. Title supplied from the 1670 edition (Evans 153). Samuel Green is ...
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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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  [The sincere convert, discovering the small number of true beleevers, and the great difficulty of saving conversion. ...]
  Date of publication:
  1664
  

  Author(s):

  Shepard, Thomas, 1605-1649. ; Greenhill, William, 1591-1671.
  Description:
  Preface signed: W. Greenhill. Title and imprint from Evans. The only known copy, held by the American Antiquarian Society, lacks p. [1-6], 1st count, p. 9-12, 89-108, 153-156, and all after p. 184. Errors in paging: p. ...
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  A brief and true narrative of some remarkable passages relating to sundry persons afflicted by witchcraft, in Salem Village: which happened from the nineteenth of March, to the fifth of April, 1692. / Collected by Deodat Lawson.
  Date of publication:
  1692
  

  Author(s):

  Lawson, Deodat.
  Description:
  (Evans-TCP ; no. N00488) Transcribed from: (Readex Archive of Americana ; Early American Imprints, series I ; image set 613) Images scanned from Readex microprint and microform: (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 613)
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  A brief ansvver to a small book written by John Norcot against infant-baptisme. This answer is written by John Eliot for the sake of some of the flock of Jesus Christ who are ready to be staggered in point of infant-baptisme by reading his book.
  Date of publication:
  1679
  

  Author(s):

  Eliot, John, 1604-1690.
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  Signatures: A^8(-A1) B^8.
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  A brief answer to two papers procured from Friends in Maryland, the one concerning Thomas Budds favouring John Lynam, &c. the other concerning his owning George Keith's principles and doctrines.
  Date of publication:
  1692
  

  Author(s):

  Budd, Thomas, d. 1698.
  Description:
  Caption title. Signed on p. 4: Thomas Budd. Dated of publication from colophon. Ascribed to the press of William Bradford by Evans.
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  A brief catechisme containing the doctrine of Godlines [sic], or of living unto God. / By John Norton, teacher of the church at Boston in New-England.
  Date of publication:
  1660
  

  Author(s):

  Norton, John, 1606-1663.
  Description:
  (Evans-TCP ; no. N00032) Transcribed from: (Readex Archive of Americana ; Early American Imprints, series I ; image set 63) Images scanned from Readex microprint and microform: (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 63)
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  A brief discourse of justification. Wherein this doctrine is plainly laid down according to the Scriptures. : As it was delivered in several sermons on this subject. / By Samuel Willard, teacher of a church in Boston. ; [Ten lines of quotations]
  Date of publication:
  1686
  

  Author(s):

  Willard, Samuel, 1640-1707.
  Description:
  Signatures: A^8(-A1) B-L^8. Error in paging: p. 147 misnumbered 247.
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  A brief exhortation to all who profess the truth, to come clear out of Babylon, and not to joyn with any hurtful or unseemly practice, nor make marriages with unbelievers, but be a seperate [sic] people from every unclean thing, that God may receive you.
  Date of publication:
  1691
  

  Author(s):

  Willsford, John.
  Description:
  Caption title. "Written, the 4th of the 2d moneth, 1691. John Wilsford [i.e., Willsford]."--p. 11. Imprint supplied by Evans.
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  A brief narrative of the success which the Gospel hath had, among the Indians, of Martha's-Vineyard (and the places adjacent) in New-England. With some remarkable curiosities, concerning the numbers, the customes, and the present circumstances of the Indians on that island. Further explaning [sic] and confirming the account given of those matters, by Mr. Cotton Mather in the Life of the renowned Mr. John Eliot. / By Matthew Mayhew. ; Whereto is added, an account concerning the present state of Christianity among the Indians, in other parts of New-England: expressed in the letters of several worthy persons, best acquainted therewithall.
  Date of publication:
  1694
  

  Author(s):

  Mayhew, Matthew, 1648-1710.
  Description:
  (Evans-TCP ; no. N00571) Transcribed from: (Readex Archive of Americana ; Early American Imprints, series I ; image set 701) Images scanned from Readex microprint and microform: (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 701)
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  A brief recognition of New-Englands errand into the wilderness; made in the audience of the General Assembly of the Massachusets Colony, at Boston in N.E. on the 11th of the third moneth, 1670 [i.e., 1671]. Being the day of election there. / By Samuel Danforth, Pastor of the Church of Christ in Roxbury in N.E. ; [Eight lines from Jeremiah]
  Date of publication:
  1671
  

  Author(s):

  Danforth, Samuel, 1626-1674. ; Shepard, Thomas, 1635-1677. ; Massachusetts. General Court.
  Description:
  Preface signed by Thomas Shepard.
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  A brief rule to guide the common people of New-England how to order themselves and theirs in the small pocks, or measels.
  Date of publication:
  1678
  

  Author(s):

  Thacher, Thomas, 1620-1678.
  Description:
  Signed and dated according to the old style calendar: 21. 11, 1677/8. Thomas Thacher. Text in two columns.
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  A brief summe of the cheif [sic] articles of our Christian faith, composed in way of question and answer, now published, especially for the benefit of the town of Hampton.
  Date of publication:
  1663
  

  Author(s):

  Cotton, Seaborn, 1633-1686.
  Description:
  Attributed to Seaborn Cotton in Kimber, S.A. Cambridge press title-pages, 1954.
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  A call from heaven to the present and succeeding generations or A discourse wherin is shewed, I. That the children of godly parents are under special advantages and encouragements to seek the Lord. : II. The exceeding danger of apostasie, especially as to those that are the children and posterity of such as have been eminent for God in their generation. : III. That young men ought to remember God their creator. / By Increase Mather, teacher of a church in Boston in New-England. ; [Nine lines of quotations]
  Date of publication:
  1679
  

  Author(s):

  Mather, Increase, 1639-1723. ; Mather, Increase, 1639-1723. Discourse concerning the danger of apostasy. ; Massachusetts. General Court.
  Description:
  Caption title: A call to the rising generation. Issued with: Mather, Increase. Pray for the rising generation ... second impression ... Boston, 1679., 29, [1] p. (Evans 275). Cf. Holmes. Errors in paging: p. 60-64 and 104, ...
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  A call from heaven, to the present and succeeding generations or A discourse wherein is shewed I. That the children of godly parents are under special advantages and encouragements to seek the Lord. : II. The exceeding danger of apostasie, especially as to those that are the children and posterity of such as have been eminent for God in their generation. : III. That young men ought to remember God their creator. / By Increase Mather, teacher of a church in Boston in N. England.
  Date of publication:
  1685
  

  Author(s):

  Mather, Increase, 1639-1723. ; Mather, Increase, 1639-1723. Discourse concerning the danger of apostasy. ; Mather, Increase, 1639-1723. Pray for the rising generation.
  Description:
  Edition statement transposed; precedes "By Increase Mather" in title. Error in paging: p. 133 misnumbered 123. Bookseller's advertisement, p. [8]. "A discourse concerning the danger of apostacy ... delivered in a sermon ...
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  A call to back-sliding Israel, and may be as a necessary word of caution and admonition to the inhabitants of East and West-Jersey, Pennsilvania, &c. as a remembrancer to them to call to mind their former state, and whence they are fallen. : With some short account of my leaving a second time that party of them called Quakers, which have condenmed [sic] G. Keith, and all that own him, of his testimony for the crucified Jesus, our alone advocate in heaven. / By Elias Burling.
  Date of publication:
  1694
  

  Author(s):

  Burling, Elias.
  Description:
  (Evans-TCP ; no. N29511) Transcribed from: (Readex Archive of Americana ; Early American Imprints, series I ; image set 39309) Images scanned from Readex microprint and microform: (Early American imprints. First series ; ...
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  A case of conscience concerning eating of blood, considered and answered.
  Date of publication:
  1697
  

  Author(s):

  Mather, Increase, 1639-1723.
  Description:
  Caption title. Attributed to Increase Mather by Holmes. Imprint from colophon.
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  A catalogue of fees established by the governour and Council at the humble request of the Assembly[.]
  Date of publication:
  1693
  

  Author(s):

  New York (State). ; Fletcher, Benjamin, 1640-1703. ; New York (State). Governor (1692-1698 : Fletcher). ; New York (State). Council. ; New York (State). General Assembly.
  Description:
  Caption title. Also issued as part of: New York (State). [Laws, etc.] The laws & acts of the General Assembly for Their Majesties province of New-York ... New-York, 1694 (Evans 703).
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  A Christian epistle to Friends in general of weighty concern, for their present and future peace and safety from the soul's adversary's subtil devices and snares of death. : To be carefully communicated to the children of light, & proffessors thereof every where. / Being faithfully given forth, and recommended from the spirit of Christ; by his servant, George Whitehead. ; [Three lines of Scripture texts]
  Date of publication:
  1691
  

  Author(s):

  Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.
  Description:
  (Evans-TCP ; no. N00457) Transcribed from: (Readex Archive of Americana ; Early American Imprints, series I ; image set 580) Images scanned from Readex microprint and microform: (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 580)
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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 confession of faith owned and consented unto by the elders and messengers of the churches assembled at Boston in New-England, May 12. 1680. Being the second session of that Synod. : [Three lines of Scripture texts]
  Date of publication:
  1680
  

  Author(s):

  Boston Synod ; Mather, Increase, 1639-1723. ; Cambridge Synod (1646-1648: Cambridge, Mass.) Platform of church discipline.
  Description:
  Preface by Increase Mather. Cf. Holmes, T.J. Increase Mather, entry 92. "A platform of church discipline ... agreed upon by the elders and messengers of the churches assembled in the Synod. At Cambridge in N.E. To be ...
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  A confession of faith, in the most necessary things of Christian doctrine, faith and practice. According to the testimony of Holy Scriptures. Given forth from the Yearly Meeting at Burlington the 7th of 7th moneth, 1692. By the despised Christian people, called Quakers.
  Date of publication:
  1693
  

  Author(s):

  Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends.
  Description:
  Described by Evans as the second edition.
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  A congratulatory address of the House of Representatives of His Majesties province of the Massachusetts-Bay, in New-England, delivered by the speaker and whole House, in the Council chamber in Boston, on Tuesday the 6th. of June, anno Domini. 1699. : To His Excellency, the Earl of Bellomont.
  Date of publication:
  1699
  

  Author(s):

  Massachusetts. General Court. House of Representatives. ; Massachusetts. Governor (1699-1700 : Bellomont).
  Description:
  Not in Wing (2nd ed.).
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  A congratulatory address, of the House of Representatives of His Majesties province of New-Hampshire, conven'd in General Assembly, August 7th. anno Domini. 1699. To His Excellency Richard, Earl of Bellomont ...
  Date of publication:
  1699
  

  Author(s):

  New Hampshire. General Assembly. House of Representatives. ; Bellomont, Richard Coote, Earl of, 1636-1701.
  Description:
  Signed: By order, and in behalf of the House of Representatives. Samuel Penhallow, speaker. Not in Wing (2nd ed.). Not in Ford, W.C. Broadsides.
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  A copy of the church-covenants which have been used in the church of Salem both formerly, and in their late renewing of their covenant on the day of the publick fast, April 15. 1680. As a direction pointing to that covenant of Gods grace in Christ made with his church and people in the holy Scripture. : [Eleven lines of Scripture texts]
  Date of publication:
  1680
  

  Author(s):

  First Church (Salem, Mass.).
  Description:
  Signatures: A^8 (A1, A7, A8 blank; A3 signed A2).
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  A copy of the Kings Majesties charter, for incorporating the Company of the Massachusets Bay in New-England in America. Granted in the fourth year of His Highness reign of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, anno Dom. 1628.
  Date of publication:
  1689
  

  Author(s):

  Massachusetts. ; England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I).
  Description:
  Title vignette: colonial seal (Reilly 930).
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  A copy of verses made by that Reverend man of God Mr. John Wilson, Pastor to the First Church in Boston; on the sudden death of Mr. Joseph Brisco, who was translated from earth to heaven Jan. 1. 1657 [i.e., 1658, N.S.].
  Date of publication:
  1658
  

  Author(s):

  Wilson, John, 1588-1667.
  Description:
  Verse of 34 lines. First line: There is no Job but cries to God and hopes. The only place of printing in America at this time was Cambridge, Mass. Samuel Green printed alone at the Cambridge press from 1649 to 1659. "The ...
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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 declaration of former passages and proceedings betwixt the English and the Narrowgansets, with their confederates, wherein the grounds and iustice [sic] of the ensuing ware are opened and cleared. : Published, by order of the Commissioners for the United Colonies. At Boston the 11 of the sixth month 1645.
  Date of publication:
  1645
  

  Author(s):

  Winthrop, John, 1588-1649. ; United Colonies of New England. Commissioners.
  Description:
  Caption title. Signed on p. 7: Jo: Winthrop president, in the name of all the commissioners. Ascribed to the press of Stephen Day in Kimber, S.A. Cambridge press title-pages, 1954.
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  A defence of the answer and arguments of the Synod met at Boston in the year 1662. Concerning the subject of baptism, and consociation of churches. Against the reply made thereto, by the Reverend Mr. John Davenport, Pastor of the church at New-Haven, in his treatise entituled, Another essay for investigation of the truth, &c. : Together with an answer to the apologetical preface set before that essay. / By some of the elders who were members of the synod above-mentioned. ; [Four lines of Scripture texts]
  Date of publication:
  1664
  

  Author(s):

  Mather, Richard, 1596-1669. ; Mitchel, Jonathan, 1624-1668.
  Description:
  Attributed to Richard Mather by Holmes. Error in paging: p. 39 misnumbered 25. "An answer to the apologetical preface ... "--46 p. Attributed to Jonathan Mitchel by Holmes.
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  A direction for a publick profession in the church assembly, after private examination by the elders. Which direction is taken out of the Scripture, and points unto that faith and covenant contained in the Scripture. Being the same for substance which was propounded to, and agreed upon by the church of Salem at their beginning, the sixth of the sixth month, 1629. In the preface to the Declaration of the faith owned and professed by the Congregationall churches in England.
  Date of publication:
  1665
  

  Author(s):

  Higginson, John, 1616-1708. ; First Church (Salem, Mass.).
  Description:
  Caption title. Written by John Higginson "... to be looked upon as a fit meanes, whereby to express that their common faith and salvation, and not to be made use of as an imposition upon any." Cf. The records of the First ...
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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.
  Description:
  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 discourse concerning the subject of baptisme wherein the present controversies, that are agitated in the New English churches are from Scripture and reason modestly enquired into / by Increase Mather, teacher of a church in Boston in New-England. ; [Sixteen lines of quotations]
  Date of publication:
  1675
  

  Author(s):

  Mather, Increase, 1639-1723.
  Description:
  Errata note, p. 76.
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  A discourse concerning the uncertainty of the times of men, and the necessity of being prepared for sudden changes & death. Delivered in a sermon preached at Cambridge in New England. Decemb. 6. 1696. On occasion of the sudden death of two scholars belonging to Harvard Colledge. / By Increase Mather, praesident of that colledge. ; [Two lines from I Samuel]
  Date of publication:
  1697
  

  Author(s):

  Mather, Increase, 1639-1723. ; Eyre, John, d. 1700, dedicatee.
  Description:
  Running title: Man knows not his time. "Errata"--p. 40.
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  A discourse of the last judgement: or, Short notes upon Mat. XXV. from ver. 31 to the end of the chapter. Concerning the judgement to come, and our preparation to stand before the Great Judge of quick and dead. ... / By Samuel Whiting, Pastor of the Church of Christ at Lynne in N.E. ; [Nine lines of Scripture texts]
  Date of publication:
  1664
  

  Author(s):

  Whiting, Samuel, 1597-1679.
  Description:
  Signatures: A^8(-A1) B-L^8.
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  A discovery of the mystery of iniquity & hypocrisie acting and ruling in Hugh Derborough.
  Date of publication:
  1692
  

  Author(s):

  Keith, George, 1639?-1716.
  Description:
  Caption title. Signed on p. 12: George Keith. Imprint supplied by Evans.
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  A faithful warning & exhortation to Friends to beware of seducing spirits, and to keep on the armour of light, in sincerity and simplicity, as their best armour in all tryals written by a lover of sincerity, and traveller for Sion's redemption, and for the removing of all oppresions from off the souls of them who have believed, Stephen Crisp.
  Date of publication:
  1692
  

  Author(s):

  Crisp, Stephen, 1628-1692.
  Description:
  (Evans-TCP ; no. N00469) Transcribed from: (Readex Archive of Americana ; Early American Imprints, series I ; image set 592) Images scanned from Readex microprint and microform: (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 592)
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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 farewel exhortation to the church and people of Dorchester in New-England. But not unusefull to any others, that shall heedfully read and improve the same, : as containing Christian and serious incitements, and preswasions to the study and practise of seven principal dutyes of great importance for the glory of God, and the salvation of the soul, and therefore needfull to be seriously considered of all in these declining times. / By Richard Mather teacher to the church above mentioned. ; [Five lines of Scripture texts]
  Date of publication:
  1657
  

  Author(s):

  Mather, Richard, 1596-1669. ; Chauncy, Charles, 1592-1672. ; First Church (Dorchester, Boston, Mass.).
  Description:
  Preface signed: Charles Chauncy. Error in paging: page numeral 15 omitted from paging. Errata note, p. 27.
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  A fast of Gods chusing, plainly opened, for the help of those poor in spirit, whose hearts are set to seek the Lord their God in New-England, in the solemn ordinance of a fast wherein is shewed 1. The nature of such a fast. 2. The testimony God will give thereunto of his gracious acceptation. 3. The special seasons wherein God will bear witness to such a fast. 4. Some helps to faith that it shall be so. 5. Why such a fast is so acceptable and successfull. 6. How much this concerns Gods people in New-England. : Preached on a fast called by publick authority, on 26. 1. 74. / By Thomas Thacher, Pastor of a church in Boston.
  Date of publication:
  1678
  

  Author(s):

  Thacher, Thomas, 1620-1678. ; Mather, Increase, 1639-1723.
  Description:
  "To the reader."--p. [6], signed: Increase Mather. Boston 2. mon. 1678.
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  A funeral elegie (written many years since) on the death of the memorable and truly honourable John Winthrope Esq: governour of the Massachusets Colony in N-England. For the space of 19 years, who died in the 63d. year of his age. March 26. 1649.
  Date of publication:
  1676
  

  Author(s):

  Lowell, Percival, 1571-1665.
  Description:
  Verse of ninety-eight lines; first line: You English Mattachusians all. Signed: Perciful Lowle [i.e., Percival Lowell]. Bristol supplies imprint: [Boston, J. Foster, 1676]. A funeral elegy upon the death of Winthrop's son, ...
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  A funeral elegy humbly dedicated to the renowned memory of the Honorable, Thomas Danforth Esq. of Cambridge, sometimes deputy governour in the colony of the Massachusetts-Bay ... who ... did to our inconceivable loss, but his unparallel'd gain, rest from all his labours, on the sacred day of rest, the memorable 5th of November anno Domini. 1699. ...
  Date of publication:
  1699
  

  Author(s):

  Danforth, John, 1660-1730.
  Description:
  Signed: John Danforth. Printed in three columns, within a mourning border. First line: Judge of the quick and dead I am not ...
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  A Funeral elegy upon the death of that excellent and most worthy gentleman John Winthrop Esq. late governour of his majestyes colony of Conecticot; who deceased April, 1676.
  Date of publication:
  1676
  

  Author(s):

  Chester, Stephen, 1640-1705.
  Description:
  Verse of forty-six lines; first line: Let woe be printed nigh unto our land. Followed by: Accrosticon [sic] and Epitaph. Imprint supplied by Samuel Abbott Green in his John Foster: the earliest American engraver and the ...
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  A funeral elegy upon the much lamented death of that pretious [sic] holy man of God Mr. Thomas Walley, for many years preacher of Gods word in London, and of late the reverend pastor of the Church of Christ in Barnstable in New-England, who departed this life on the Sabbath morning, March. 24th, 1677.8. being newly entred [sic] into the sixty second year of his age.
  Date of publication:
  1678
  

  Author(s):

  Cotton, John, 1640-1699.
  Description:
  Verse; first line: How many hearts do now with tears lament. Signed: An hearty mourner, J.C. Attributed to John Cotton (1640-1699) by C.K. Shipton. This supposition is supported by the evidence of Cotton's relationship ...
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  A funeral tribute to the honourable dust of that most charitable Christian, unbiassed politician, and unimitable pyrotechnist John Winthrope Esq; a member of the Royal Society, & governour of Conecticut colony in New-England. Who expired in his countreys service. April 6th. 1676.
  Date of publication:
  1676
  

  Author(s):

  Tompson, Benjamin, 1642-1714.
  Description:
  Verse of eighty-eight lines; first line: Another black parenthesis of woe. Signed: B. Thompson. Ascribed to the press of John Foster in Boston by Evans. Text in two columns; surrounded by a mourning border. Not in Wing. ...
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  A general epistle given forth by the people of the Lord, called, Quakers, that all may know, we own none to be of our fellowship, or to be reckoned or numbred [sic] with us, but such as fear the Lord and keep faithfully to his heavenly power ...
  Date of publication:
  1686
  

  Author(s):

  Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. ; Penn, William, 1644-1718. ; Taylor, Frances.
  Description:
  The first published work from the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends. "Written in the sixth month, 1685."--p. 13. "An epistle to the people of God called Quakers in the province of Pennsilvania ..."--p. 15-19; signed: ...
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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 guide to heaven from the Word: or, Good counsel how to close savingly with Christ. Some short but serious questions to ask our hearts every morning and evening, whether we walk closely with him. : And especially, rules for the strict and due observation of the Lord's Day. : [One line from John]
  Date of publication:
  1689
  

  Author(s):

  Hardy, Samuel, 1636-1691.
  Description:
  Attributed to Samuel Hardy in the Dictionary of national biography.
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  A journal kept by Coll. Stephen Courtland, & Coll. Nich. Beyard, of Their Majesties Council for the Province of New-York, being appointed by the Council to attend His Excellency Benjamin Fletcher ... to Albany in treating with the Indians of the Five Nations, and river Indians of that province, in the months of June and July, 1693. : Together with the propositions and conferences of the said Indians with His Excellency. And His Excellency's answers, &c.
  Date of publication:
  1693
  

  Author(s):

  Van Cortlandt, Stephanus, 1643-1700. ; Bayard, Nicholas, 1644-1707.
  Description:
  (Evans-TCP ; no. N29509) Transcribed from: (Readex Archive of Americana ; Early American Imprints, series I ; image set 39307) Images scanned from Readex microprint and microform: (Early American imprints. First series ; ...
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  A journal of the House of Representatives for His Majesties province of New-York in America begun the 20th day of June, in the seventh year of His Majesties reign, annoq; Dom. 1695.
  Date of publication:
  1695
  

  Author(s):

  New York (State). General Assembly.
  Description:
  "The earliest publication of the proceedings of a legislative body printed in the United States."--Evans. Issued in nine parts, numbered 1-3, 5-10.
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  A Journal of the proceedings in the late expedition to Port-Royal, on board Their Majesties Ship, the Six-Friends, the Honourable William Phipps Knight, commander in chief, &c. A true copy, attested by Joshua Natstock clerk.
  Date of publication:
  1690
  

  Author(s):

  Phips, William, Sir, 1651-1695.
  Description:
  (Evans-TCP ; no. N00414) Transcribed from: (Readex Archive of Americana ; Early American Imprints, series I ; image set 513) Images scanned from Readex microprint and microform: (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 513)
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  A journal of what passed in the expedition of His Excellency Col. Benjamin Fletcher, captain general and governour in chief of the province of New-York, &c. to Albany, to renew the covenant chain with the five canton nations of Indians, the Mohaques, Oneydes, Onondages, C[...]es and Sinnekes.
  Date of publication:
  1696
  

  Author(s):

  Jamison, David, 1660-1739.
  Description:
  Caption title. Signed on p. 11: David Jamison. Imprint supplied by Evans.
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  A just rebuke to several calumnies, lyes & slanders reported against Thomas Budd.
  Date of publication:
  1692
  

  Author(s):

  Budd, Thomas, d. 1698.
  Description:
  Caption title. Signed on p. 6: Thomas Budd. Imprint supplied by Evans.
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  A Letter from a gentleman of the city of New-York to another, concerning the troubles which happen'd in that province in the time of the late happy revolution.
  Date of publication:
  1698
  

  Author(s):

  Unknown author
  Description:
  Relates to the government under Jacob Leisler. Error in paging: p. 19 misnumbered 13.
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  A Letter from Father La Chaise, confessor to the French King, to Father Peters, confessor to the King of England. In which is contained the project and designe of that faction to introduce the Prince of Wales; with some observations on his conception and birth, to which is added a letter from Will Penn to Father la Chaise about the affaires of that babe and the ensueing progress of the popish designe.
  Date of publication:
  1688
  

  Author(s):

  La Chaise, François d'Aix de, 1624-1709.
  Description:
  "Probably printed in England. The work is a fabrication of Penn's enemies in support of the charge that he was a Roman Catholic."--Evans. Dated on p. 15: Whitehall the 16th day of the fifth month in the year commonly called 1688.
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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 of advice to a young gentleman leaving the university concerning his behaviour and conversation in the world. By R.L.
  Date of publication:
  1696
  

  Author(s):

  Lingard, R. (Richard), 1598?-1670. ; Lanesborough, James Lane, Viscount, 1650-1724.
  Description:
  Addressed to James Lane, Viscount Lanesborough.
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  A little handful of cordial comforts for a fainting soul, scattered throughout several answers to certain questions and objections following.
  Date of publication:
  1690
  

  Author(s):

  Standfast, Richard, 1608?-1684.
  Description:
  The only known copy, held by the Boston Public Library, lacks the title page. Title taken from caption title. Also published under title "A New-Years-gift for fainting souls." Running title: Cordial comforts for a fainting ...
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  A manifesto or declaration, set forth by the undertakers of the new church now erected in Boston in New-England, November 17. 1699.
  Date of publication:
  1699
  

  Author(s):

  Colman, Benjamin, 1673-1747.
  Description:
  Caption title. Attributed to Benjamin Colman in: Lathrop, S.K. History of the church in Brattle Street. Printers' names and date of publication suggested by Evans.
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  A memorial between Jest and Earnest, from Ignoramus the First, relating to the past and present state of the nation. : Presented to all the honest ignoramusses of the Lords and Commons of England. : [Two lines of quotation]
  Date of publication:
  1691
  

  Author(s):

  Ignoramus.
  Description:
  "A Whig tract, relating solely to English politics. It was printed in London."--Hildeburn. Signed on p. 7: Ignoramus. From my chamber in Philadelphia, this 24 of the second month, called April, 1691. Text begins on title page.
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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 Modest and impartial narrative of several grievances and great oppressions that the peaceable and most considerable inhabitants of Their Majesties province of New York lie under, by the extravagant and arbitrary proceedings of Jacob Leysler and his accomplices.
  Date of publication:
  1691
  

  Author(s):

  Unknown author
  Description:
  Imprint supplied by Evans. I.N. Phelps Stokes, in his Iconography of Manhattan Island, 1922, v. 4, p. 359, suggests 1690 as the date of publication.
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  A monumental memorial of marine mercy being an acknowledgement of an high hand of Divine deliverance on the deep in the time of distress, in a late voyage from Boston in New-England to London, anno 1683. : In a poem. / By Richard Steere. ; To which is added another occasioned by several remarkable passages happening at the birth of a male child on board the same ship in her voyage returning 1684. By the same author then a passenger.
  Date of publication:
  1684
  

  Author(s):

  Steere, Richard, 1643-1721.
  Description:
  (Evans-TCP ; no. N00300) Transcribed from: (Readex Archive of Americana ; Early American Imprints, series I ; image set 377) Images scanned from Readex microprint and microform: (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 377)
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  A Narrative of an attempt made by the French of Canada upon the Mohaques country being Indians under the protection of Their Majesties government of New-York. To which is added, I. An account of the present state and strength of Canada, given by two Dutch-men, who have been prisoners there, and now made their escape. 2. The examination of a French prisoner 3 His Excellency Benjamin Fletcher's speech to the Indians. 4. The answer of the five nations of the Mohaques to His Excellency. 5. Proposals made by the four chief sachims of the five nations, to His Excellency. And His Excellency's reply thereto. 6. An address from the corporation of Albany to His Excellency, returning thanks for His Excellency's early assistance for their relief, &c.
  Date of publication:
  1693
  

  Author(s):

  Bayard, Nicholas, 1644-1707. ; Ludovici, C. (Christian), 1660-1728. ; New York (State). Governor (1692-1698 : Fletcher).
  Description:
  Caption title. Imprint from colophon. William Bradford printed in both New York and Philadelphia in 1693. "A journal kept by Coll. Nicholas Beyard and Lieut. Coll. Charles Lodwick, who attended His Excellency in this ...
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  A narrative of the miseries of New-England, by reason of an arbitrary government erected there. Under Sir Edmond Andross. To which is added, some account of the humble application of the pious and noble Prelate, Henry Lord Bishop of London, with the reverend clergy of the city, and some of the dissenting ministers in it, to the illustrious Prince William Henry, Prince of Orange on Fryday [sic], September 21. 1688. : Also the address of the noncomformist ministers (in and about the city of London) to His Higness [sic] the Prince of Orange.
  Date of publication:
  1688
  

  Author(s):

  Mather, Increase, 1639-1723.
  Description:
  Attributed to Increase Mather by Holmes.
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  A narrative of the proceedings of Sir Edmond Androsse and his complices, who acted by an illegal and arbitrary commission from the late K. James, during his government in New England. / By several gentlemen who were of his council.
  Date of publication:
  1691
  

  Author(s):

  Stoughton, William, 1632-1701. ; Mather, Increase, 1639-1723.
  Description:
  Intended to accompany "The Revolution in New England justified" (Evans 575). Attributed to William Stoughton by Sibley. Also attributed to Increase Mather. Place of publication supplied by Wing.
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  A narrative of the troubles with the Indians in New-England, from the first planting thereof in the year 1607. to this present year 1677. But chiefly of the late troubles in the two last years, 1675. and 1676. : To which is added a discourse about the warre with the Pequods in the year 1637. / By W. Hubbard, Minister of Ipswich. ; [Twelve lines of quotations] ; Pnblished [sic] by authority.
  Date of publication:
  1677
  

  Author(s):

  Hubbard, William, 1621 or 2-1704. ; Shepard, Jeremiah, 1648-1720. ; Tompson, Benjamin, 1642-1714. ; Leete, William, 1612 or 13-1683. dedicatee. ; Leverett, John, 1616-1679, dedicatee. ; Winslow, Josiah, ca. 1629-1680, dedicatee. ; Foster, John, 1648-1681, engraver.
  Description:
  Dedicated to John Leverett, Josiah Winslow and William Leete. For a discussion of the states of this edition, see: Adams, R.G. "Hubbard's Narrative, 1677." Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 33 (1939): 25-39. ...
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  A new primmer or Methodical directions to attain the true spelling, reading & writing of English. Whereunto are added, some things necessary & useful both for the youth of this province, and likewise for those, who from foreign countries and nations come to settle amongst us. / By F.D.P. ; [Six lines of quotations]
  Date of publication:
  1698
  

  Author(s):

  Pastorius, Francis Daniel, 1651-1719.
  Description:
  By Franz Daniel Pastorius.
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  A paraphrastical exposition on a letter from a gentleman in Philadelphia to his friend in Boston concerning a certain person who compared himself to Mordecai.
  Date of publication:
  1693
  

  Author(s):

  Phillips, John.
  Description:
  In verse. Attributed to John Phillips by Evans. Ascribed to the Philadelphia press of William Bradford by Evans. However, Wilberforce Eames lists the work in "The first year of printing in New York," while stating that the ...
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  A pastoral letter to the English captives in Africa. From New-England.
  Date of publication:
  1698
  

  Author(s):

  Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.
  Description:
  Signed on p. 16: Yours in Him, Cotton Mather.
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  A plain short catechism for children & youth, that may be serviceable to such others, who need to be constructed in the first principles and grounds of the Christian religion. : To which is added, a short paraphrase or opening, by way of meditation on that prayer which our Lord Jesus Christ taught his disciples, commonly call'd, The Lords prayer. / By G.K. ; [Eight lines of Scripture texts]
  Date of publication:
  1690
  

  Author(s):

  Keith, George, 1639?-1716.
  Description:
  Attributed to George Keith by Evans.
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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.
  Description:
  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 plea for the life of dying religion from the word of the Lord: in a sermon preached to the General Assembly of the colony of Massachusets [sic] at Boston in New-England, May 16. 1683. Being the day of election there. / By Mr. Samuel Torrey Pastor of the Church of Christ at Waymouth. ; [Eleven lines of Scripture texts]
  Date of publication:
  1683
  

  Author(s):

  Torrey, Samuel, 1632-1707. ; Mather, Increase, 1639-1723.
  Description:
  Preface signed by Increase Mather. Bookseller's advertisement, p. [48].
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  A poem dedicated to the memory of the Reverend and excellent Mr. Urian Oakes, the late pastor to Christ's flock, and praesident of Harvard-Colledge, in Cambridge. Who was gathered to his people on 25d 5mo 1681. In the fifty'th year of his age. : [Seven lines of quotations]
  Date of publication:
  1682
  

  Author(s):

  Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.
  Description:
  Signed on p. 16: N.R. [i.e., Cotton Mather, using the final letters of his fore- and surnames]. "Advertisement."--p. 16.
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  A practical discourse concerning the choice benefit of communion with God in His House, witnessed unto by the experience of saints as the best improvement of time. : Being the summe of several sermons on Psal. 84. 10. Preach'd in Boston on lecture-dayes / By Joshua Moodey Minister of the Gospel. ; [Five lines from Psalms]
  Date of publication:
  1685
  

  Author(s):

  Moodey, Joshua, 1633?-1697. ; Allen, James, 1632-1710.
  Description:
  "To the reader." signed: James Allen. "Errata."--verso of 1st leaf. Bookseller's advertisement, p. [171].
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  A Preparatory sheet, occasioned by the author's being ask'd at sea, Shall all that have never heard of Jesus Christ, be eternally damned?
  Date of publication:
  1689
  

  Author(s):

  Unknown author
  Description:
  Concerning the eternity of damnation. Caption title. Imprint suggested by Bristol. Not in Wing.
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  A present from a farr countrey, to the people of New England. I. A great voice from heaven, to these parts of the earth: in an excellent letter full of divine rarities, lately written from a terrible prison in France; / by a pious confessor of the reformed religion, once an inhabitant of this countrey. ; (With some late remarkables, of the persecution, upon the reformed in that kingdom.) II. The golden bells of the great high priest, heard from heaven, through the land. Or, Meditations, upon the methods of grace, wherein a few faithful persons may be the happy instruments of delivering a land, from all its iniquities & calamities.
  Date of publication:
  1698
  

  Author(s):

  Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728. ; Neau, Elias, d. 1722. ; Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728. Brief discourse, made unto the Great and General Assembly ... 1697.
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  Attributed to Cotton Mather by Holmes. Parentheses substituted for square brackets in statement of responsibility. Contains a letter in French from Elias Neau, translated by Nehemiah Walter of Roxbury. "A brief discourse, ...
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  A present to be given to teeming women, by their husbands, or friends. Containing directions for women with child. How to prepare for the hour of travail. : Written first for the private use of a gentlewoman of quality: and now published for the common good. / By John Oliver, less than the least of all saints[.] ; [Seven lines from Genesis]
  Date of publication:
  1694
  

  Author(s):

  Oliver, John, 1601-1661.
  Description:
  READEX NOTE: THe Library of Congress copy reproduced lacks the title page and is otherwise imperfect.
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  A proclamation by the president and Council for the orderly solemnization of marriage.
  Date of publication:
  1686
  

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  Territory and Dominion of New-England. President (1686 : Dudley). ; Dudley, Joseph, 1647-1720. ; Territory and Dominion of New England. Council.
  Description:
  Signed: It is hereby ordred that this proclamation beforth-with [sic] printed & published accordingly. Dated at Boston the 29th day May, in the second year of His Majesties reign. Edward Randolph secr': God save the King. ...
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  A proclamation by the President and Council of His Majestiy's [sic] Territory & Dominion of New-England in America. Whereas His Most Excellent Majesty our Soveraign Lord James the Second ... hath been graciously pleased to erect and constitute a president and council to take care of all that his Territory and Dominion of New-England ... Given from the Council-house in Boston this 28th day of May: anno Domini 1686.
  Date of publication:
  1686
  

  Author(s):

  Territory and Dominion of New-England. President (1686 : Dudley). ; Dudley, Joseph, 1647-1720. ; Territory and Dominion of New England. Council.
  Description:
  Announcing the appointment of Joseph Dudley as governor of the Territory and Dominion of New England. Signed: By the president and Council, Edward Rawson secr'.
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  A publick tryal of the Quakers in Barmudas upon the first day of May, 1678. First, the charge against them was openly read, containing these particulars ... Secondly, the whole charge being proved by the testimony of the Holy Scriptures: was found by the sheriffe, and justices of the peace, a true and just charge. Thirdly, being found guilty, they are here sentenced, and brought forth unto the deserved execution of the presse. / By Samson Bond late Preacher of the Gospel in Barmudas. ; [Two lines of Scripture texts]
  Date of publication:
  1682
  

  Author(s):

  Bond, Samson.
  Description:
  Running title: The Quakers in Barmudas tryed, found guilty, sentenced, and executed. Error in paging: p. 99-104 misnumbered 95-100. Second part, p.77-104, has running title: A Quakers erroneous principles propounded and confuted.
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  A quickening word for the hastening a sluggish soul to a seasonable answer to the divine call. Published by a poor sinner that found it such to him. : Being the last sermon preached in the First Church of Boston upon Isaiah 55. 6. / By the pastor there, on the 24th of the fifth moneth, 1670.
  Date of publication:
  1670
  

  Author(s):

  Oxenbridge, John, 1609-1674.
  Description:
  Attributed to John Oxenbridge by Evans. Running title: Quickening word for a sluggish soul.
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  A refutation of three opposers of truth, by plain evidence of the Holy Scripture, viz. I. Of Pardon Tillinghast, who pleadeth for water-baptism, its being a Gospel-precept, and opposeth Christ within, as a false Christ. To which is added, something concerning the supper, &c. II. Of B. Keech, in his book called, A tutor for children, where he disputeth against the sufficiency of the light within, in order to salvation; and calleth Christ in the heart, a false Christ in the secret chamber. III. Of Cotton Mather, who in his appendix to his book, called, Memorable providences, relating to witchcraft, &c. doth so weakly defend his father Increase Mather from being justly chargeable with abusing the honest people called Quakers, that he doth the more lay open his father's nakedness; and beside the abuses and injuries that his father had cast upon that people, C. Mather, the son, addeth new abuses of his own. : And a few words of a letter to John Cotton, called a minister, at Plymouth in New England. / By George Keith. ; [Two lines from Zephaniah]
  Date of publication:
  1690
  

  Author(s):

  Keith, George, 1639?-1716. ; Cotton, John, 1640-1699.
  Description:
  (Evans-TCP ; no. N00417) Transcribed from: (Readex Archive of Americana ; Early American Imprints, series I ; image set 516) Images scanned from Readex microprint and microform: (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 516)
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  A relation of Captain Bull, concerning the Mohawks at Fort-Albany. May, 1689.
  Date of publication:
  1689
  

  Author(s):

  Bull, Jonathan, 1649-1702.
  Description:
  Imprint supplied by Evans.
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  A relation of the troubles which have hapned in New-England, by reason of the Indians there. From the year 1614 to the year 1675. : Wherein the frequent conspiracyes of the Indians to cutt off the English, and the wonderfull providence of God, in disappointing their devices, is declared. : Together with an historical discourse concerning the prevalency of prayer; shewing that New Englands late deliverance from the rage of the heathen is an eminent answer of prayer. / By Increase Mather teacher of a church in Boston in New-England. ; [Nine lines of quotations]
  Date of publication:
  1677
  

  Author(s):

  Mather, Increase, 1639-1723.
  Description:
  Two states noted by Holmes. In one, the title page has a rule after the fifth line of text, a double rule precedes the imprint, and the eleventh line begins "late deliverance from the rage ..." In the other state, no rule ...
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  A remembrance of former times for this generation; and our degeneracy lamented. : The first[-second] part. [Nine lines from Jeremiah] / By W.J. Esq.
  Date of publication:
  1697
  

  Author(s):

  W. J. (William Jameson).
  Description:
  Attributed to William Jameson by Evans. Signatures: A-B^8.
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  A scriptural catechism. The heads of the Christian religion plainly, briefly, and fully delivered in a catechism, which endeavours a sufficient answer to every question, barely with a pertinent sentence of sacred Scripture, and enables the learner at once with great ease to confirm as well as assert the great articles of the faith once delivered unto the saints. / By Cotton Mather. ; [One line from John]
  Date of publication:
  1691
  

  Author(s):

  Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.
  Description:
  Also issued with copies of: Mather, Cotton. Addresses to old men, and young men, and little children ... Boston : Printed by R. Pierce, 1690 (Evans 534).
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  A seasonable discourse wherein sincerity & delight in the service of God is earnestly pressed upon professors of religion. Delivered on a publick fast, at Cambridge in New-England, / by the Reverend, and learned Urian Oakes, late Pastor of the church there and praesident of Harvard Colledge. ; [Eight lines of Scripture texts]
  Date of publication:
  1682
  

  Author(s):

  Oakes, Urian, 1631-1681. ; Mather, Increase, 1639-1723.
  Description:
  Preface signed: Boston, 2. [i.e., April] 19. 1682. Increase Mather. Error in paging: p. 33 misnumbered 23. Errata note, p. 23 [i.e., 33].
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  A seasonable vvatch-vvord unto Christians against dreams & dreamers of this generation: delivered in a sermon November 16th. 1665: and being the last lecture, which was preached by that reverend, faithful and eminent man of God Mr. John Wilson. Sometime Pastor of the Church of Christ in Boston in New-England. : [Three lines from Acts]
  Date of publication:
  1677
  

  Author(s):

  Wilson, John, 1588-1667. ; Thacher, Thomas, 1620-1678.
  Description:
  Preface addressed to the "Christian reader" signed: Thomas Thacher. Boston. 23. 5. 1677.
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  A serious appeal to all the more sober, impartial & judicious people in New-England to whose hands this may come, whether Cotton Mather in his late address, &c. hath not extreamly failed in proving the people call'd Quakers guilty of manifold heresies, blasphemies and strong delusions, and whether he hath not much rather proved himself extreamly ignorant and greatly possessed with a spirit of perversion, error, prejudice and envious zeal against them in general, and G.K. in particular, in his most uncharitable and rash judgment against him. : Together with a vindication of our Christian faith in those things sincerely believed by us, especially respecting the fundamental doctrines and principles of Christian religion. / By George Keith.
  Date of publication:
  1692
  

  Author(s):

  Keith, George, 1639?-1716.
  Description:
  In answer to Mather's Little flocks guarded against grievous wolves.
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  A serious exhortation to the present and succeeding generation in New-England; earnestly calling upon all to endeavour that the Lords gracious presence may be continued with posterity. / Being the substance of the last sermons preached by Eleazar Mather, late Pastor of the church in Northampton in New England. ; [Eleven lines of Scripture texts]
  Date of publication:
  1671
  

  Author(s):

  Mather, Eleazar, 1637-1669. ; Mather, Increase, 1639-1723, ed.
  Description:
  Running title: A word to the present and succeeding generation in New-England. Dedication signed: Increase Mather ... I. I. 1671.
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  A serious exhortation to the present and succeeding generation in New-England; earnestly calling upon all to endeavour that the Lords gracious presence may be continued with posterity. / Being the substance of the last sermons preached by Eleazer [sic] Mather, late Pastor of the church in Northampton in New-England.
  Date of publication:
  1678
  

  Author(s):

  Mather, Eleazar, 1637-1669. ; Mather, Increase, 1639-1723, ed.
  Description:
  Running title: A word to the present and succeeding generation in New-England. "To the reader" signed: Increase Mather. Boston 28. of 12 m. 1677.
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  A sermon (preached at the lecture in Boston in New-England the 18th of the 1. moneth 1674. When two men were executed, who had murthered their master) Wherein is shewed that excess in wickedness doth bring untimely death. / By Increase Mather, teacher of a church of Christ. ; [Seven lines of quotations]
  Date of publication:
  1685
  

  Author(s):

  Mather, Increase, 1639-1723.
  Description:
  Issued with: Mather, Increase. A call from heaven ... Boston, 1685 (Evans 393). Cf. Holmes. First published in 1675 under title: The wicked mans portion. Edition statement transposed: precedes "By Increase Mather" in title.
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  A sermon occasioned by the execution of a man found guilty of murder preached at Boston in N.E. March 11th 1685[/]6. : (Together with the confession, last expressions & solemn warning of that murderer to all persons; especially to young men, to beware of those sins which brought him to his miserable end.) / By Increase Mather, teacher of church of Christ.
  Date of publication:
  1687
  

  Author(s):

  Mather, Increase, 1639-1723. ; Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728. Call of the Gospel. ; Moodey, Joshua, 1633?-1697. Exhortation to a condemned malefactor.
  Description:
  "The call of the Gospel applyed ... in a sermon, preached on the 7th day of March. 1686 ... by Cotton Mather ... the second edition ... Printed at Boston, by Richard Pierce. 1687."--p. [37]-82, with separate title page. ...
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  A sermon occasioned by the execution of a man found guilty of murder: preached at Boston in New-England, March 11th 1685/6. : (Together with the confession, last expressions, and solemn warning of that murderer, to all persons; expecially to young men, to beware of those sins which brought him to his miserable end.) / By Increase Mather, teacher of a church of Christ.
  Date of publication:
  1686
  

  Author(s):

  Mather, Increase, 1639-1723. ; Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728. Call of the Gospel. ; Moodey, Joshua, 1633?-1697. Exhortation to a condemned malefactor.
  Description:
  Signatures: A-C^8 E-K^8 (H5 blank). Error in paging: p. 62, 4th count, misnumbered 65. Errata note, p. 44, 2nd count. "The call of the Gospel applyed unto all men in general, and unto a condemned malefactor in particular. ...
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  A sermon preach'd at the election of the governour, at Boston in New-England, May 19th 1669. By John Davenport.
  Date of publication:
  1670
  

  Author(s):

  Davenport, John, 1597-1670.
  Description:
  (Evans-TCP ; no. N29423) Transcribed from: (Readex Archive of Americana ; Early American Imprints, series I ; image set 39179) Images scanned from Readex microprint and microform: (Early American imprints. First series ; ...
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  A sermon preach't at the funeral of Mrs. Elizabeth Riscarrick. December 20th. 1698. [Five lines of quotations]
  Date of publication:
  1698
  

  Author(s):

  Myles, Samuel, 1664-1728.
  Description:
  Attributed to Samuel Myles by Evans and in Sibley's Harvard graduates. Signatures: A-B^8 (B7 verso, B8 blank).
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