Bonifacius. An essay upon the good, that is to be devised and designed, by those who desire to answer the great end of life, and to do good while they live. A book offered, first, in general, unto all Christians, in a personal capacity, or in a relative. Then more particularly, unto ministers, unto physicians, unto lawyers, unto scholemasters [sic], unto wealthy gentlemen, unto several sorts of officers, unto churches, and unto all societies of a religious character and intention. With humble proposals, of unexceptionable methods, to do good in the world. : [Two lines from Ephesians]

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Running title: Essays to do good. Attributed to Cotton Mather by Holmes. Signatures: A-N^8. Appendix, p. 194-199, concerns missions to the Indians. Prospectus, p. 200-206, for Mather's "Biblia Americana."