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  A sermon on the nature and necessity of conversion. By Mather Byles, D.D. Pastor of a church in Boston. ; [Two lines from Luke]
  Date of publication:
  1769
  

  Author(s):

  Byles, Mather, 1707-1788.
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  Half-title: Dr. Byles's sermon on conversion. Running title: The nature and importance of conversion. First published in 1732, with Byles' A discourse on the present vileness of the body (Evans 3510). "Felicity found and ...
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  The life and character of the Reverend Benjamin Colman, D.D. late Pastor of a church in Boston New-England. Who deceased August 29th 1747. / By Ebenezer Turell, A.M. Pastor of Medford. ; [Two lines of quotations]
  Date of publication:
  1749
  

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  Turell, Ebenezer, 1702-1778. ; Byles, Mather, 1707-1788. ; Cooper, Samuel, 1725-1783. and Gray, Ellis, 1715-1753.
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  Half-title: The life and character of the late Reverend Dr. Colman. Preface signed: M. Byles, Ellis Gray, Samuel Cooper. List of subscribers, p. [13-15], 1st count. Catalogue of Colman's works, p. 233-236. Bookseller's ...
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  The prayer and plea of David, to be delivered from blood-guiltiness, improved in a sermon at the ancient Thursday-lecture in Boston, May 16th 1751. Before the execution of a young Negro servant, for poisoning an infant. / By Mr. Byles. ; [Four lines from Psalms]
  Date of publication:
  1751
  

  Author(s):

  Byles, Mather, 1707-1788.
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  Half-title: Mr. Byles's sermon before the execution of a murderer. Running title: David's prayer and plea to be delivered from blood-guiltiness.
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  Poems. The conflagration, applied to that grand period or catastrophe of our world, when the face of nature is to be changed by a deluge of fire, as formerly it was by that of water. : The God of tempest and earthquake.
  Date of publication:
  1755
  

  Author(s):

  Byles, Mather, 1707-1788.
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  The vanity of every man at his best estate. A funeral sermon on the Honorable William Dummer, Esq. late lieutenant governor and commander in chief, over the province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England, who died October 10, 1761. Aged 84 years. / By Mr. Byles. ; [Three lines from Ecclesiastes]
  Date of publication:
  1761
  

  Author(s):

  Byles, Mather, 1707-1788.
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  "Extract from the Boston news-papers, October 26th, 1761."--3 p. at end.
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  A discourse on the present vileness of the body, and its future glorious change by Christ. To which is added, a sermon on the nature and importance of conversion. : Both occasionally deliver'd at Dorchester April 23. 1732. / By Mather Byles, A.M. ; [Three lines from Claud. Phoenix]
  Date of publication:
  1732
  

  Author(s):

  Byles, Mather, 1707-1788. and Byles, Mather, 1707-1788. Sermon on the nature and importance of conversion.
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  First sermon has caption title: The glorious change of the vile body; second sermon has caption title: The nature and necessity of conversion. "An hymn to Christ for our regeneration and resurrection."--recto of last leaf.
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  Lessons of caution to young sinners. A sermon preach'd on Lord's-Day Sept. 23. 1733. Upon the affecting occasion of an unhappy young woman present in the assembly under sentence of death. / By Thomas Foxcroft, M.A. Pastor to the Old Church in Boston. ; With a preface by Mr. Cooper. ; And Mr. Byles's conference with the prisoner as she walked to the place of execution. ; [Five lines of Scripture texts]
  Date of publication:
  1733
  

  Author(s):

  Foxcroft, Thomas, 1697-1769. ; Cooper, William, 1694-1743. and Byles, Mather, 1707-1788.
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  The "unhappy young woman" was Rebekah Chamblit, who was executed for the murder of her bastard child. "The declaration, dying warnings and advice of Rebekah Chamblit, a young woman aged near twenty-seven years, executed ...
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  The glories of the Lord of Hosts, and the fortitude of the religious hero. A sermon preached to the Ancient and Honourable Artillery Company June 2. 1740. Being the anniversary of their election of officers. / By Mather Byles, A.M. Pastor of a church in Boston. ; [Five lines from II Kings]
  Date of publication:
  1740
  

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  Byles, Mather, 1707-1788. and Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts.
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  Half-title: Mr. Byles's artillery-election sermon, June 2, 1740. Errata note, p. 31.
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  Affection on things above. A discourse delivered at the Thursday-lecture in Boston, December 11th 1740. / By Mather Byles, V.D.M. and Pastor to a church in Boston. ; [Three lines from Revelation]
  Date of publication:
  1740
  

  Author(s):

  Byles, Mather, 1707-1788.
  Description:
  Half-title: Mr. Byles's sermon on Col. iii. 2. "The comparison, the choice, and the enjoyment."--iii p. at end, in verse.
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  The flourish of the annual spring, improved in a sermon preached at the ancient Thursday lecture in Boston, May 3. 1739. / By Mather Byles, A.L.M. Pastor of a church in Boston. ; [Four lines from Numbers]
  Date of publication:
  1741
  

  Author(s):

  Byles, Mather, 1707-1788.
  Description:
  Running title: Meditations on the spring of the year.
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