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Mercury, Or, The Secret And Swift Messenger : Shewing, How A Man May With Privacy And Speed Communicate His Thoughts To A Friend At Any Distance, John Wilkins

Deaf Rare Books

No abstract provided.

The Wonders Of The Invisible World. Observations As Well Historical As Theological, Upon The Nature, The Number, And The Operations Of The Devils (1693), Cotton Mather, Reiner Smolinski , Editor

Electronic Texts in American Studies

I. Some Accounts of the Grievous Molestations, by DÆMONS and WITCHCRAFTS, which have lately annoy’d the Countrey; and the Trials of some eminent Malefactors Executed upon occasion thereof; with several Remarkable Curiosities therein occurring.
II. Some Counsils, Directing a due Improvement of the terrible things, lately done, by the Unusual & Amazing Range of EVIL SPIRITS, in Our Neighbourhood: & the methods to prevent the Wrongs which those Evil Angels may intend against all sorts of people among us; especially in Accusations of the Innocent.
III. Some Conjectures upon the great EVENTS, likely to befall, the WORLD in General, and …

Theodore Eccleston, James Harrison, December 19, 1686, Theodore Eccleston

Pemberton Correspondence

Letter dated December 19, 1686 (December 9, 1686 Old Style) from Theodore Eccleston to James Harrison. It is largely comprised of questions Eccleston has about life in Pennsylvania.

Theodore Eccleston, James Harrison, December 19, 1686, Theodore Eccleston

Pemberton Correspondence Transcriptions

Letter dated December 19, 1686 (December 9, 1686 Old Style) from Theodore Eccleston to James Harrison. It is largely comprised of questions Eccleston has about life in Pennsylvania ranging from the court system and relationships with Native Americans to how to handle cattle and other matters.

Peter Hendricks, Roger Longworth Via Thomas Atherton, August 28, 1686, Peter Hendricks

Pemberton Correspondence Transcriptions

Letter dated August 28, 1686 (August 18, 1686 Old Style) from Peter Hendricks to Roger Longworth, delivered to Thomas Atherton.

William Gibson, James Harrison, June 24, 1684, William Gibson

Pemberton Correspondence

Letter dated June 24, 1684 (June 14, 1684 Old Style) from William Gibson to James Harrison.

William Gibson, James Harrison, June 24, 1684, William Gibson

Pemberton Correspondence Transcriptions

Letter dated June 24, 1684 (June 14, 1684 Old Style) from William Gibson to James Harrison. Gibson relates to Harrison the persecutions and disrupted meetings in England since the Harrisons settled in Pennsylvania. He also admits, regretfully, that he would be unable to travel to the colonies because of a recent illness.

William Kenerly, James Harrison, June 16, 1683, William Kenerly

Pemberton Correspondence

Letter dated June 16, 1683 (June 6, 1683 Old Style) from William Kenerly to James Harrison.

The Compleat Troller : Or, The Art Of Trolling, With A Description Of All The Utensils, Instruments, Tackling, And Materials Requisite Thereto : With Rules And Directions How To Use Them : As Also A Brief Account Of Most Of The Principal Rivers In England., Nobbes, Robert, 1652-1706?

Angling

Dedication signed: Ro. Nobbes. Advertisement on p. [2] at end.

Phineas Pemberton, John Haydock, May 25, 1680, Phineas Pemberton

Pemberton Correspondence

Letter dated May 25, 1680 (May 15, 1680 Old Style) from Phineas Pemberton to John Haydock.

Didascalocophus : Or The Deaf And Dumb Mans Tutor, To Which Is Added A Discourse Of The Nature And Number Of Double Consonants: Both Which Tracts Being The First (For What The Author Knows) That Have Been Published Upon Either Of The Subjects, George Dalgarno

Deaf Rare Books

No abstract provided.

Prophesies Concerning Christs 2d Coming, Isaac Newton

Rare Books at James White Library

Written sometime in the early 1680s, in English and Latin with quotations in Greek and Hebrew, c. 19,367 words, 40 pp. on 5 quarto signatures

For more information see Kimakwa, Sarah, "James White Library Hidden Treasures Isaac Newton: Early Adventist Pioneer? A Physicist’s Perspective" (2014) at https://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/library-pubs/13/

Ralph Pemberton, Phineas Pemberton, August 7, 1679, Ralph Pemberton

Pemberton Correspondence

Letter dated August 7, 1679 (July 28, 1679 Old Style) from Ralph Pemberton to his son, Phineas Pemberton.

Roger Longworth, James Harrison, April 7, 1679, Roger Longworth

Pemberton Correspondence

Letter dated April 7, 1679 (March 28, 1678/9 Old Style) from Roger Longworth, imprisoned in Chester Castle, to James Harrison.

An Earnest Exhortation To The Inhabitants Of New-England (1676), Increase Mather, Reiner Smolinski , Editor

Electronic Texts in American Studies

The work reprinted here, An Earnest Exhortation to the Inhabitants of New-England to Hearken to the Voice of God in His Late and Present Dispensations As Ever They Desire to Escape Another Judgement, Seven Times Greater Then Any Thing Which as Yet Hath Been (1676), is transcribed from the copy held by the American Antiquarian Society. It is Mather's theological explication of King Philip’s War (1675-76) as God’s punishment of his people for their backsliding. Characteristic of the homiletic tradition of the jeremiad is Increase Mather’s paradigmatic response to the war with the Indian Sachem Metacom and his action plan …

Full Text

Gobillon: French

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The Cry Of Sodom Enquired Into, Samuel Danforth

Zea E-Books in American Studies

This is a well-known execution sermon from seventeenth-century Massachusetts, delivered on the occasion of the sentencing to death of a young man convicted of bestiality—specifically of copulation with a mare, in which he was discovered in the open in broad daylight. Samuel Danforth, who wrote and delivered the sermon, would have known the condemned young man very well. Benjamin Goad had been born into Danforth’s congregation at Roxbury and had grown up under his pastoral care. Danforth was also familiar with the anguish of a parent over the death of a child, having suffered the deaths of eight of his …

The Cry Of Sodom Enquired Into; Upon Occasion Of The Arraignment And Condemnation Of Benjamin Goad, For His Prodigious Villany. (1674) An Online Electronic Text Edition., Samuel Danforth, Paul Royster , Editor

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Faculty Publications

This is a well-known execution sermon from seventeenth-century Massachusetts, delivered on the occasion of the sentencing to death of a young man convicted of bestiality—specifically of copulation with a mare, in which he was discovered in the open in broad daylight. Samuel Danforth, who wrote and delivered the sermon, would have known the condemned young man very well. Benjamin Goad had been born into Danforth’s congregation at Roxbury and had grown up under his pastoral care. Danforth was also familiar with the anguish of a parent over the death of a child, having suffered the deaths of eight of his …

Phineas Pemberton, Ralph Pemberton, August 11, 1670, Phineas Pemberton

Pemberton Correspondence

Letter dated August 11, 1670 (August 1, 1670 Old Style) from Phineas Pemberton to his father, Ralph Pemberton. He informs his father that the sheriff has issued orders for him to go to assizes in Lancaster. Despite this, he has not set out yet because his master and mistress, away for the week, desire he stay until they return. He tells his father not to inform the other Friends also on their way to appear at assizes in Lancaster. He concludes the letter by saying he has heard that a warrant was issued for his arrest following the events related …

A Brief Recognition Of New-Englands Errand Into The Wilderness, Samuel Danforth

Zea E-Books in American Studies

Samuel Danforth’s election sermon of 1670 is a classic example of the New England jeremiad. Addressed to the assembled delegates on the occasion of the election of officers for the Massachusetts General Court, it asks the very pointed question: “What is it that distinguisheth New-England from other Colonies and Plantations in America?” The answer, of course, is that the Puritan colonies (Massachusetts, Plymouth, Connecticut, and New Haven) were founded for the pursuit of religious ends by the reformed Protestant churches of England:

“You have solemnly professed before God, Angels and Men, that the Cause of your leaving your Country, Kindred …

The Deaf And Dumb Man’S Discourse; Or, A Treatise Concerning Those That Are Born Deaf And Dumb, Containing A Discovery Of Their Knowledge Or Understanding; As Also The Method They Use To Manifest The Sentiments Of Their Mind. Together With An Additional Tract Of The Reason And Speech Of Inanimate Creatures,, George Sibscota

Deaf Rare Books

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A Sermon Preach’D At The Election Of The Governour, At Boston In New-England May 19th 1669., John Davenport, Paul Royster , Editor

Electronic Texts in American Studies

John Davenport’s A Sermon Preach’d at the Election is a notable and fascinating document on numerous counts. As a statement of Puritan political theory, it outlines the rights of the governed to self-preservation from abusive authority—a subject that would be more extensively explored in the years leading up to the Revolution. But as a document of its specific place and time—Boston in 1669—it bore a large part in the politico-theological controversies that followed the Synod of 1662 that recommended the adoption of the so-called Half-Way Covenant. Davenport’s long digression on the proper role of the state in convening “Councils” on …

A Brief Recognition Of New-Englands Errand Into The Wilderness: An Online Electronic Text Edition, Samuel Danforth, Paul Royster (Transcriber & Editor)

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Faculty Publications

Samuel Danforth’s election sermon of 1670 is a classic example of the New England jeremiad. Addressed to the assembled delegates on the occasion of the election of officers for the Massachusetts General Court, it asks the very pointed question: “What is it that distinguisheth New-England from other Colonies and Plantations in America?” The answer, of course, is that the Puritan colonies (Massachusetts, Plymouth, Connecticut, and New Haven) were founded for the pursuit of religious ends by the reformed Protestant churches of England:

“You have solemnly professed before God, Angels and Men, that the Cause of your leaving your Country, Kindred …

Codex: Sarzana English

Constitutions and Rules

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Codex: Sarzana English + Notes

Constitutions and Rules

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Livre 1: Index

1664 French edition

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Relation Of The Pequot Warres (1660), Lion Gardener, W. N. Chattin Carlton , Editor

Electronic Texts in American Studies

Lion Gardener (1599-1663) was an English military engineer, formerly in the service of the prince of Orange, who was hired by members of the Connecticut Company in 1635 to oversee construction of fortifications for their new colony. On arriving in Connecticut in early 1636, his first assignment was to finish and garrison Saybrook Fort, at the mouth of the Connecticut River. In August 1636, the area was visited by a punitive military expedition from the Massachusetts Bay Colony, led by John Endicott, intent upon intimidating the Pequot and Niantic tribes and demanding delivery of the killers of a group of …

Common Rules: English

Constitutions and Rules

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Common Rules: French Sv

Constitutions and Rules

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Misère Temps (Chaptire Xvii)

Feillet, Alphonse

No abstract provided.