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A good evening for the best of dayes. An essay, to manage an action of trespass, against those who mispend the Lords-Day evening, in such things as have a tendency to defeat the good of the day. A sermon preached in the audience of the General Assembly, at Boston, 4 d. 9 m. 1708. And, published, by the order of the House of Representatives. [Three lines from Psalms]
Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.
Date
1708
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What should be most of all tho't upon. A brief essay, to awaken in a dying man, (that is to say, in every man,) a proper and a lively concern for, a good state after death. With some directions, how that good state is to be obtain'd and ensur'd. [One line of quotation in Latin]
Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.
Date
1713
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The nightingale. An essay on songs among thorns. Or The supports & comforts of the afflicted believer. Thankfully published by one that has had experience of them. [Two lines from Job]
Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.
Date
1724
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Religious societies. Proposals for the revival of dying religion, by well ordered societies for that purpose. With a brief discourse, offered unto a religious society, on the first day of their meeting. [One line from I Thessalonians]
Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.
Date
1724
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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
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Restitutus. The end of life pursued, and then, the hope in death enjoyed, by the faithful. Both of them described in a discourse made upon a recovery from sickness. Or, The declaration of one returning from the gates of the grave. [Two lines from Isaiah]
Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.
Date
1727
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A faithful man, described and rewarded. Some observable & serviceable passages in the life and death of Mr. Michael Wigglesworth. Late Pastor of Maldon [i.e., Malden]; who rested from his labours, on the Lords-Day, June 10th. 1705. In the seventy fourth year of his age. And memorials of piety, left behind him among his written experiences. With a funeral-sermon preached (for him) at Maldon; June 24. 1705. By Cotton Mather. [Two lines of quotation in Latin]
Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.
Date
1705
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A sermon wherein is shewed, I. That the ministers of the Gospel need, and ought to desire the prayers of the Lord's people for them. II. That the people of God ought to pray for his ministers. Preached at Roxbury, October 29. 1718. When Mr. Thomas Walter was ordained a pastor in that church, by his grand-father, Increase Mather. D.D. [Seven lines of Scripture texts]
Mather, Increase, 1639-1723.
Date
1718
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A sermon concerning the life, death, and future state of saints on the mournful occasion of the much lamented death of that late ingenious, pious, and vertuous gentlewoman, Rachel Hillhouse. Of Free Hall, & County Londonderry, Ireland. Who died, January 7th. 1716. By James Hillhouse A.M. Minister of the Gospel. [Two lines from Psalms]
Hillhouse, James, approximately 1687-1740.
Date
1721
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Malachi. Or, The everlasting Gospel, preached unto the nations. And those maxims of piety, which are to be the glorious rules of behaviour, the only terms of communion, and the happy stops to controversy, among all that would meet and serve those advances which the kingdom of God is now making on the world; and what the distressed nations must see their distresses go on, till they are brought unto.
Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.
Date
1717
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