An essay for the recording of illustrious providences: wherein, an account is given of many remarkable and very memorable events, which have happened in this last age; especially in New-England. / By Increase Mather, teacher of a church at Boston in New-England. ; [Six lines of Scripture texts]

Abstract

"The work is a collection of accounts of happenings of rare, extraordinary and marvellous nature; of storms at sea with remarkable deliverances; of lightning, magnetism, earthquakes, and other natural phenomena; and of demons and witchcraft."--Holmes. Re-issue, with cancelled title page, of the Boston edition printed by Samuel Green in 1684. See Holmes. Running title: Remarkable providences. Errata note, p. 372. Bookseller's advertisement, p. [9] at end.