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The Puritan Divines, 1620-1720
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With Some Character ft History of . . . Mr Thomas Bridge, A Late Pastor of the First-Church in Boston; etc. Boston, 1715. (281) The Grand Point of Sollicitude. A very brief Essay upon Divine Desertions, the Symptoms of them etc. Boston, 1715. (282) Just Commemorations. The Death of Good Men Considered; and The Characters of Some who have Lately Died in the Service of the Churches . . . Unto which there is added, A brief Account of the Evangelical Work among the Christianized Indians of New-England; Whereof One of the Persons here Commemorated was a valuable . . . Instrument. [Life of Grindal Rawson.] Boston, [1715.] (283) "Monitor for ye Children of ye Covent." [Boston], 1715. [Possibly identical with no. 271.] (284) Nuncia Bona e Terra Longinqua. A Brief Account of Some Good & Great Things A Doing For the Kingdom of God, In the Midst of Europe: etc. Boston, 1715. (285) Parentalia. An Essay Upon the Blessings and Comforts Reserved for Pious Children after the Death of their Pious Parents. Etc. Boston, 1715. (286) Shaking Dispensations. An Essay Upon the Mighty Shakes, which the Hand of Heaven ... is giving to the World. With . . . Remarks on the Death of the French King, etc. Boston, 1715. (287) A Sorrowful Spectacle. In Two Sermons Occasioned by a Just Sentence of Death, on a Miserable Woman, for the Murder of a Spurious Offspring . . . With some Remarkable Things, relating to the Criminal; proper for All to be Informed of. Boston, 1715. [Appended is B. Colman's The Divine Compassions declar'd and magnified.] (288) Successive Generations. Remarks upon the Changes of a Dying World, Made by One Generation passing off, and another Generation coming on. Boston, 1715. (289) Verba Opportuna: The Circumstances of Boston considered, with fresh Inculcations of Piety. Boston, 1715. (290) The Christian Cynick. A brief Essay On a Merciful Saviour, Address'd by an Unworthy Sinner; etc. Boston, 1716. (291) Curiosa Americana, continued in Letters to ye Learned & Famous John Woodward M.D. . . . from Cotton Mather, etc. 1716. Contains, 1, Monstrous Impraegnations; 2, A Monstrous Calf; 3, The Nidification of Pigeons; 4, A Triton; 5, A Serpent securely handled; 6, A Strange Mischief to the Eyes; 7, Strength of Imagination; 8, The Stone Mistaken; 9, Surprizing Influences of the Moon; 10, Curiosities of the Small Pox; 11, The Fagiana. [The second series of Cur. Amer., written in 1714, was sent to England for publication by the Royal Soc. Fearful that they were lost, Mather reproduced them as above. See Kittredge, under Biography and Criticism.] (292) A brief Essay on Tokens for Good. [Boston?], 1716. (293) The City of Refuge. The Gospel of the City Explained, etc. Boston, 1716. (294) Directions How to spend the Lords Day Evening. Boston, 1716. (295) The Echo's of Devotion. A very brief and plain Essay on those Acts of Compliance which all Calls to Piety are to be entertained withal. Boston, 1716. (296) Fair Dealing between Debtor and Creditor. A very brief Essay upon The Caution to be used, about coming into Debt, And getting out of it. Boston, 1716. (297) Letter to Dr. John Woodward, of London, respecting Bridget and Jane Moulton, etc. 1716. Col. New Hamp. Hist. Soc, III, 122. (298) Life swiftly Passing and quickly Ending. A very Short Sermon . . . after the Death of Mrs. Mehetabel Gerrish, etc. Boston, 1716. (299) Marah spoken to. A brief Essay to do good unto the Widow. Etc. Boston, 1716, 1718. (300) Menachem . . . On Tokens of Good . . . also some Good Things of a Late Occurrence . . . which have a Comfortable Aspect on the Protestant Religion in General, etc. Boston, 1716. (301) Piety Demanded. [Boston?], 1716. (302) The Pleasures of True Piety. Boston, 1716. (303) The Resort of Piety. Our Saviour Considered and Exhibited as a Tree of Life, etc. Boston, 1716. (304) The Servant of Abraham. With Motives for the Instruction of Servants. Boston, 1716. (305)