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The Daniel catcher. The life of the prophet Daniel: in a poem. To which is added, Earth's felicities, heaven's allowances, a blank poem. With several short poems. By R.S.
Steere, Richard, 1643-1721.Date: in the year 1713- Books
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The best way of living; which is to die daily: very briefly described and commended in a plain discourse, made at a time, when the author had newly seen repeated strokes of death, on his own family. And the publisher had his family also struck with a sudden death upon a vital part of it. 22. d. IX. m. 1713. By Cotton Mather, D.D. [One line from 2 Corinthians]
Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.Date: 1713- Books
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A discourse on the great priviledge and happiness of dying in faith. Deliver'd at George-Town on Arowsick, upon the death of John Watts, Esq.; who departed this life Nov. 26th. 1717. By Joseph Baxter, A.M. [Ten lines of Scripture texts]
Baxter, Joseph, 1676-1745.Date: 1718- Books
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An almanack for the year of our Lord, 1724. ... Calculated to the meridian of Boston, in New England where the north pole is elevated 42 d. & 25 m. north, and 71 deg. westward from London. By N. Wittemore [sic].
Whittemore, Nathaniel, 1673-1754.Date: 1724 [i.e., 1723?]- Books
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An almanack for the year of our Lord, 1702 ... By John Tulley; who dyed as he was finishing this almanack; and so leaves it as his last legacy to his country-men.
Tulley, John, 1638-1701.Date: 1702 [i.e., 1701?]- Books
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The heavenly foot-man: or, A description of the man that gets to heaven. Together, with the way he runs in, the marks he goes by: also some directions, how to run, so as to obtain. Briefly observed, and published by John Bunyan. [Five lines from Genesis]
Bunyan, John, 1628-1688.Date: 1725- Books
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A call to the unconverted. To turn and live. And accept mercy while mercy may be had, as ever they would find mercy in the day of their extremity. From the living God. To which are added, forms of prayer for morning and evening for a family, for a penitent sinner, and fo the Lord's Day. Written at the request of the late Reverend & learned Archbishop Usher. By Richard Baxter. To be read in families where any are unconverted.
Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.Date: 1717- Books
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Gods frown in the death of useful men. Shewed in a sermon preached at the funeral of the Honourable Col John Pynchon Esq. Who deceased January 17th. 1702[/]3. By Solomon Stoddard, Pastor of Northampton.
Stoddard, Solomon, 1643-1729.Date: 1703- Books
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Proposals, for the preservation of religion in the churches, by a due trial of them that stand candidates of the ministry.
Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.Date: 1702]- Books
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Vicious courses, procuring poverty. Describ'd and condemn'd. A lecture sermon preach'd at Boston, Feb. 19. 1718,19. By Benjamin Wadsworth, A.M. Pastor of a church of Christ in Boston, N.E. [Nine lines from Proverbs]
Wadsworth, Benjamin, 1670-1737.Date: 1719- Books
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A life of piety resolv'd upon. A brief and plain essay, upon, a life of religion in, a walk before the glorious God. And the resolutions wherewith such a walk is to be come into. Made, upon the death of that Honourable and religious gentlewoman, Mrs. Sarah Ting; who afte many steps in that walk, arrived unto the blessed end of it; 28 d. 12. m. 1713, 14. By Cotton Mather, D.D. [One line from Isaiah]
Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.Date: 1714- Books
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Vita brevis. An essay, upon withering flowers. Or, Mankind considered, as first flourishing, and then withering. In a sermon, preached on, the joyful death of a valuable youth; and the awful death of a desirable child, in the north part of Boston. By Cotton Mather, D.D. [One line from Psalms]
Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.Date: 1714- Books
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Icono-clastes An essay upon the idolatry, too often committed under the profession of the most reformed Christianity; and a discovery of the idols which all Christians are every where in danger of. By Cotton Mather, D.D. and F.R.S. [Two lines from Ezekiel]
Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.Date: 1717- Books
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The hainous nature of the sin of murder. And the great happiness of deliverance from it. As it was represented in a sermon at the lecture in Boston, Sept. 24. 1713. Before the execution of one David Wallis. By Benjamin Colman, Pastor of a church in Boston.
Colman, Benjamin, 1673-1747.Date: 1713- Books
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The curbed sinner. A discourse upon the gracious and wondrous restraints laid by the providence of the glorious God, on the sinful children of men, to withold them from sinning against him. Occasioned by a sentence of death, passed on a poor young man, for the murder of his companion. With some historical passages referring to that unhappy spectacle. By Cotton Mather, D.D. [Two lines from Job]
Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.Date: 1713- Books
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Military discipline. The newest way and method of exercising horse & foot. With some account of field officers, and a description of the arms of horse and foot.
Date: 1718- Books
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Jethro's advice recommended to the inhabitants of Boston, in New-England, viz. to chuse well-qualified men, and haters of covetousness, for town officers. In a lecture on Exodus 18. 21. 9th 1st month 1709.10 By Thomas Bridge, Pastor of a church in Boston. [One line from Luke]
Bridge, Thomas, 1657-1715.Date: 1710- Books
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Christ's certain and sudden appearance to judgment. By Thomas Vincent, sometime Minister of Maudlin's Milk-Street, London. [Two lines from Hebrews] Licensed, May 28. 1688.
Vincent, Thomas, 1634-1678.Date: 1718- Books
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The N. England kalendar, 1703. Or An almanack for the year of our Lord, 1703 ... Calculated for and fitted to the meridian of Boston in N. Engl. whose latitude is 42. g 25 m. north. But may well serve any part of New-England ... By a lover of astronomy. With allowance.
Date: 1703 [i.e., 1702?]- Books
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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 Lords-Day. [One line from John]
Hardy, Samuel, 1636-1691.Date: 1717- Books
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A letter to ungospellized plantations; briefly representing the excellency & necessity, of a peoples enjoying the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ among them. Composed at the desire, and sent by the care, and in the name, of certain gentlemen, merchants, and others, of Boston, after their disbursements, to procure an offer of the glorious Gospel, unto the plantations (too willingly) destitute of an evangelical ministry. [Three lines from Matthew]
Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.Date: in the year, 1702- Books
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Christian advice to the sick and well. In answer to these questions. I. What should Christians do, when under bodily sickness? II. How should Christians in health, improve the sickness of others; and how should they carry it towards the sick? III. How should Christians behave themselves, when recovered from sickness? And, None but the righteous saved: a sermon on I Cor. 6. 9. By Benjamin Wadsworth, A.M. Pastor of a church in Boston, N.E. [Three lines from John]
Wadsworth, Benjamin, 1670-1737.Date: 1714- Books
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Reason satisfied: and faith established. The resurrection of a glorious Jesus demonstrated by many infallible proofs: and the holy religion of a risen Jesus, victorious over all the cavils of its blasphemous adversaries. [Eight lines of quotations]
Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.Date: 1712- Books
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Sinners directed to hear & fear, and do no more so wickedly. Being an impartial account of the inhumane and barbarbous murder, committed by Jeremiah Meacham, on his wife and her sister, at Newport on Rhode-Island, March 22d. 1715. With some account of his life, tryal, carriage before and after condemnation; his confession, prayers, and last dying words at the place of execution, which was April the 12th. 1715. Also a sermon preached in his hearing: on Psalm LI. 17. By Mr. Nathaniel Clap, Minister of the Gospel in Newport, Rhode-Island.
Clap, Nathaniel, 1669-1745.Date: 1715- Books
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Acquaintance with God yields peace with him. A sermon preached December 23. 1716. To a society of young men, usually meeting on Lord's-Day evenings, for religious exercises. By Benjamin Wadsworth, A.M. Pastor of a church of Christ, in Boston, New-England. [Six lines of Scripture texts]
Wadsworth, Benjamin, 1670-1737.Date: 1717