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A Conference held at St. George's in the county of York, on the twentieth day of September, anno regni Regis Georgii Secundi, Magnae Britanniae Franciae et Hiberniae, vicesimo septimo. Annoque domini, 1753. Between Sir William Pepperrell, Baronet, Jacob Wendell, Thomas Hubbard, and John Winslow, Esqrs; and Mr. James Bowdoin. Commissioners appointed by His Excellency William Shirley, Esq; captain general and governour in chief, in and over His Majesty's province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England, to treat with the Eastern Indians of the one part, and the Indians of the Penobscott tribe of the other part.
Date: 1753- Books
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A Bundle of myrrh, or Rules for a Christian's daily meditation and practice. [Three lines from Proverbs]
Date: 1765- Books
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The duty of ministers, to testify the Gospel of the grace of God. A sermon preached to the First Parish in Braintree, December 13. 1753. Being a day set a-part by them for solemn humiliation and prayer for divine direction in their choice of a minister. By Samuel Dunbar, A.M. Pastor of the First Church in Stoughton. [Five lines from I Corinthians]
Dunbar, Samuel, 1704-1783.Date: 1754- Books
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A discourse concerning kindness. Being a sermon preach'd in Boston, on the Lord's-Day, Febr. 28th. 1719,20. And now published, with some enlargement, at the importunity of many that heard it. By Thomas Foxcroft. [Eighteen lines of Scripture texts]
Foxcroft, Thomas, 1697-1769.Date: 1720- Books
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God's wonders in the great deep: or, A narrative of the shipwreck of the brigantine Alida and Catharine, Joseph Bailey, master, on the 27th of December, 1749. Bound from New York for Antigua. Wherein, the wonderful mercy of the Divine Providence is display'd, in the preservation of the said master, with all his men, from the time of the said vessel's over-setting, to the time of their being taken up by a vessel bound from Boston to Surranam, on the 3d of January following; all which time, being seven nights, they were in the most imminent danger and distress. Written by the master himself.
Bailey, Joseph.Date: [1750]- Books
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A vindication of divers important Gospel-doctrines, and of the teachers and professors of them: against the injurious reflections & misrepresentations contained in a late printed discourse of the Rev. Mr. Lemuel Briant's, intitled, The absurdity and blasphemy of depreciating moral vertue. Also a few remarks are subjoined, on Mr. John Bass's late narrative. Published as his dying testimony to the cause of Christ, in the Protestant churches, and particularly in New-England. By Samuel Niles, Pastor of a church in Braintree. [Eleven lines of quotations]
Niles, Samuel, 1674-1762.Date: 1752- Books
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A bill for further ascertaining the descent of real estates of persons dying intestate without issue.
Massachusetts. General Court.Date: 1754]- Books
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A Letter from a country gentleman at Boston, to his friends in the country.
Date: 1740]- Books
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The church's marriage to her sons, and to her God: a sermon preached at the instalment of the Rev. Mr. Samuel Buel as Pastor of the church and congregation at East-Hampton on Long-Island, September 19. 1746. By Jonathan Edwards, A.M. Pastor of the First Church in Northampton in New-England.
Edwards, Jonathan, 1703-1758.Date: 1746- Books
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The sin and danger of self-love described, in a sermon preach'd at Plimouth in New-England. First published in London.
Cushman, Robert, 1579?-1625.Date: in the year 1724- Books
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Some temporal advantages in keeping covenant with God, considered and applied in two discourses from Lev. 26. 3,4. Delivered June 15th 1749. Being a day of publick fasting, on occasion of extream drought. By Aaron Smith, M.A. Pastor of the church in Marlborough. At the earnest request of his hearers. [Nine lines of Scripture texts]
Smith, Aaron, 1713-1781.Date: 1749- Books
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The servant's actual readiness for the coming of his Lord, described, and recommended. In two discourses preached at Lexington, December 17th. 1752. Being the Lord's Day after the funeral of their late venerable and aged pastor, the Reverend Mr. John Hancock, who going t bed as well as usual the night after the 5th of December, and awaking some time after midnight with a great pain in his stomach, died in a few minutes. In the 82d year of his age, and 54th of his ministry. By Nathaniel Appleton, A.M. Pastor of the First Church in Cambridge. Published at the reques of the people of Lexington. [Five lines from Mark]
Appleton, Nathaniel, 1693-1784.Date: 1753- Books
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The character and reward of the faithful ministers of Christ. A sermon preach'd at the South Church in Boston, on the Lord's Day after the funeral of the Reverend Mr. Alexander Cumming, late Colleague Pastor of said church. Who departed this life, August 25. 1763. Aetat. 37. By Joseph Sewall, D.D. Pastor of said church. [Five lines from Revelation]
Sewall, Joseph, 1688-1769.Date: 1763- Books
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The Lord-High-Admiral of all the seas, adored. A brief essay upon the miracle of our Saviour walking upon the water. With admonitions of piety, profitable to all; but very particularly agreeable to them, whose business calls them to sailing on the water. [Two lines from Psalms]
Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.Date: MDCCXXIII. [1723]- Books
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Euthanasia. A sudden death made happy and easy to the dying believer. Exemplified in John Frizell, Esq; who so expired, April 10. 1723. [Eight lines of quotations in Latin]
Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.Date: MDCCXXIII. [1723]- Books
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The voice of God in a tempest. A sermon preached in the time of the storm; wherein many and heavy and unknown losses were suffered at Boston, (and parts adjacent,) Febr. 24. 1722-3. By one of the ministers in Boston. [One line from Micah]
Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.Date: MDCCXXIII. [1723]- Books
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The character of Caleb. In a sermon delivered at the South-Church in Boston, on the Lord's-Day after the funeral of the Honourable Josiah Willard, Esq; secretary of the province: who deceased December 6. 1756. Aet. 76. By Thomas Prince, M.A. and a Pastor of said church.
Prince, Thomas, 1687-1758.Date: 1756- Books
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An humble inquiry into the rules of the Word of God, concerning the qualifications requisite to a compleat standing and full communion in the visible Christian church. By Jonathan Edwards, A.M. Pastor of the First Church in Northampton. With an appendix by Mr. Foxcroft. [Ten lines of quotations]
Edwards, Jonathan, 1703-1758.Date: 1749- Books
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An awakening call from the eternal God, to the unconverted. By Samuel Corbin, M.A. [Two lines of quotation]
Corbin, Samuel.Date: 1742- Books
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A thanksgiving sermon, preach'd at Pepperrell, January 3d 1760. A day set apart by the church and congregation there: to commemorate the goodness of God to them the year past: especially in the removal of sickness, and the return of so many soldiers from the army. By Joseph Emerson, A.M. Pastor of the church there. [Three lines from Psalms]
Emerson, Joseph, 1724-1775.Date: 1760- Books
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A discourse on justification by grace: being the substance of two sermons, delivered to the new gathered Congregational Church of Christ in Boston. By Ephraim Clark, Pastor of the said church. Published at the desire of the hearers. [Three lines from Ephesians]
Clark, Ephraim, 1722-1797.Date: 1751- Books
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The true state of the question concerning the qualifications necessary to lawful communion in the Christian sacraments. Being an answer to the Reverend Mr. Jonathan Edwards his book intitled, An humble inquiry into the rules of the word of God, concerning the qualifications requisite to a compleat standing and full communion in the visible Christian church. By Solomon Williams, A.M. Pastor of the First Church in Lebanon. [Three lines in Latin from Langius]
Williams, Solomon, 1700-1776.Date: 1751- Books
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Soldiers directed and urged, to inlist under Jesus Christ, the Captain of the Lord's host. A sermon preached in Southampton, on the Sabbath, P.M. May 28. 1758. To a number of soldiers, just before their march against the enemy. By Jonathan Judd, M.A. Pastor of the Church o Christ in Southampton. Published at the desire of the hearers. [Two lines from Proverbs]
Judd, Jonathan, 1719-1803.Date: 1759- Books
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Christians warned of temptation, and exhorted to pray, that they enter not into it. Two sermons preach'd at Rowley, West-Parish, Lord's-Day, Feb. 10. 1754. By James Chandler, A.M. Pastor of the West-Church in Rowley. [Three lines of quotations]
Chandler, James, 1706-1789.Date: 1754- Books
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Martyrology, or, A brief account of the lives, sufferings and deaths of those two holy martyrs, viz. Mr. John Rogers, and Mr. John Bradford, who suffered for the Gospel, by the bloody tyranny, rage and persecution of the Church of Rome, in the kingdom of England, under the reign of Queen Mary, and were burnt at Smithfield, the former on the 14th of February 1554, the latter July 1st 1555. [Three lines from Matthew]
Date: 1736