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

  Author(s):

  Stubbes, Henry, 1606?-1678.
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  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. and Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618.
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  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. and 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. and 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. and 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. and 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. and New York (State). General Assembly.
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  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. and 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. and Massachusetts. Governor (1699-1700 : Bellomont).
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  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. and Bellomont, Richard Coote, Earl of, 1636-1701.
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  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. and 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.
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  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. and 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. and 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. and 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. and 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. and 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. and 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.
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  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. and 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. and Mather, Increase, 1639-1723.
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  "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. and 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. and 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. and 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. and 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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