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.

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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.