Magnalia Christi americana: or, The ecclesiastical history of New-England; from its first planting, in the year 1620, unto the year of Our Lord 1698. In seven books
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Mather, Cotton
Mather, Cotton, -- 1663-1728
New England
New England -- Biography
New England -- Charts, diagrams, etc
New England -- Church history
New England -- Church history -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Biography
New England -- Church history -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Personal narratives
New England -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
New England -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Personal narratives
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Congregational churches
Congregational churches -- Discipline
Congregational churches -- Government
Discipline
Government
History
Mather, Cotton
Mather, Cotton, -- 1663-1728
New England
New England -- Biography
New England -- Charts, diagrams, etc
New England -- Church history
New England -- Church history -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Biography
New England -- Church history -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Personal narratives
New England -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
New England -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Personal narratives
New England -- Maps
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Table of Contents
From the Book
v. 1. book 1. Antiquities. 1855: Preface
An attestation to this church-history of New-England, by Rev. Hon Higginson
A prefatory poem, by Rev. Nicholas Noyes
Anagrams and Latin poems with translations
Poem, epigram and Pindaric with original translations
Anagram and Latin poem with original translation
It reports the design where-on, the manner where-in, and the people where-by, the several colonies of New-England were planted. An so it prepares a field for considerable things to be acted thereupon
Introduction
Discoveries of America, tending to, and ending in, discoveries of New-England
Voyage to New-England, which produced the first settlement of New-Plymouth; with an account of many remarkable and memorable providences, relating to that voyage
A brief account of the difficulties. The deliverances, and other occurrences, through which the plantation of New-Plymouth arrived unto the consistency of a colony
Essays and causes, which produced the second, but largest colony of New-England; and the manner wherein the first church of this new colony was gathered
Progress of the new colony; with some account of the persons, the methods and the troubles, by which it came to something
Addition of several other colonies to the former; with some considerables in the condition of these later colonies
Field which the Lord hath blessed. An ecclesiastical map of New-England; with remarks upon it
Some historical remarks on the state of Boston, the chief town of New-England and of the English America
book 2. Ecclesiarum clypei. 1853: It contains the lives of the governours, and the names of the magistrates, that have been shields unto the churches of New-England
Introduction: The life of William Bradford, Esq., Governour of Plymouth colony
Successors
Assistants
The life of John Winthrop, Esq., Governour of the Massachusetts colony
Among whom, larger accounts are given of Governour Dudley and Governour Bradstreet
Assistants, with remarks
The life of Edward Hopkins, Esq., the first governour of Connecticut
Successors
The life of Theophilus Eaton, Esq., Governour of the New-Haven colony
Successors
The life of John Winthrop, Esq., first governour of Connecticut and N. Haven, united
Assistants
Appendix: The life of his Excellency, Sir William Phips, late governour of New-England. An history filled with great variety of memorable matters
book 3. Polybius. 1853.
It contains the lives of many divines, by whose evangelical ministry the churches of New-England have been illuminated
Introduction: A general history dividing into three classes the ministers who came out of old England, for the service of New
Part I entitled Johannes in Eremo: The life of Mr. John Cotton
The life of Mr. John Norton
The life of Mr. John Wilson
The life of Mr. John Davenport
The life of Mr. Thomas Hooker
Part II entitled Dead Abels yet speaking and spoken of: The life of Mr. Francis Higginson
The death of Mr. John Avery
The life of Mr. Jonathan Burr
The life of Mr. George Philips
The life of Mr. Thomas Shepard
The life of Mr. Peter Prudden
The life of Mr. Adam Blackman
The life of Mr. Abraham Pierson
The life of Mr. Richard Denton
The life of Mr. Peter Bulkly
The life of Mr. Ralph Partridge
The life of Mr. Henry Dunster
The life of Mr. Ezekiel Rogers
The life of Mr. Nathaniel Rogers
Appendix: An extract from the diary of the famous old Mr. John Rogers of Dedham
The life of Mr. Samuel Newman
The life of Mr. Samuel Stone
The life of Mr. William Thompson
The life of Mr. John Warham
The life of Mr. Henry Flint
The life of Mr. Richard Mather
The life of Mr. Zachariah Symmes
The life of Mr. John Allin
The life of Mr. Charles Chancey
The life of Mr. John Fisk
The life of Mr. Thomas Parker
With an appendix containing memoirs of Mr. James Noyes
The life of Mr. Thomas Thacher
The life of Mr. Peter Hobart
A man of God, and an honourable man; The life of Mr. Samuel Whiting
The life of Mr. John Sherman
The life of Mr. Thomas Cobbet
The life of Mr. John Ward
The epitaph of Dr. John Owen
Part III: It contains the live of the renowned John Eliot; with an account, concerning the success of the gospel, among the Indians
A very entertaining piece of church history
Part IV entitled remains: Introduction
Remains of the first classis or the shorter accounts of some useful divines
The life of Mr. Thomas Allen
The life of Mr. John Knowles
Elisha' bones or The life of Mr. Henry Whitfield
Remains of the second classis with more largely The life of Mr. John Woodbridge
Remains of the third classis with more punctual accounts of Mr. John Oxenbridge, Mr. Thomas Walley and Mr. Samuel Lee
A good man making a good end; or the life and death of Mr. John Baily
v. 2. Book: 4. Sal gentium. 1853: It contains an account of the New-English university
Introduction
Part I: The laws, the benefactors and the vicissitudes of Harvard-College; and a catalogue of its graduates; with remarks upon it
Part II: The lives of some of the eminent persons therein educated: Memorables concerning Mr. John Brock
The life of Mr. Samuel Mather
The life of Mr. Jonathan Mitchel
The life of Mr. Urian Oakes
The life of Mr. Thomas Shepherd
St. Stephen's reliques or the memoirs of Mr. Joshua Moody
The life of the Collins's
The life of Mr. Thomas Shepard
Early piety exemplified; in the life and death of Mr. Nathaniel Mather
book 5. Acts and monuments, 1853: It contains the faith and order in the churches of New-England, agreed by their synods: with historical remarks upon all those venerable assemblies; and great variety of other church-cases, occurring and resolved in those American churches
Part I: The faith professed by the churches of New-England; with remarks
Part II: The discipline practiced in the churches of New-England. With historical remarks; and a rich collection of church-cases happily decided
Appendix: The heads of agreement, assented to by the united ministers, formally called Presbyterian and Congregational
Part III: The principles owed, and endeavours used, by the churches of New-England, concerning the church-state of their posterity; with remarks
Part IV: The reforming synod of New-England; with subsequent essays of reformation in the churches
book 6. Thaumaturgus. 1853: It contains many illustrious discoveries and demonstrations of the divine providence in remarkable mercies and judgments on many particular persons among the people of New-England
Relating remarkable sea-deliverances
Relating remarkable salvations experienced by others besides the sea-faring
Relating remarkable done by thunder. With a Brontologia sacra, remarkably produced
Relating remarkable conversions
Relating remarkable judgments of God, on several sorts of offenders, in several scores of instances
An appendix containing an history of criminals, executed for capital crimes; with their dying speeches
The triumphs of grace; or a narrative of the success which the gospel hath had among the Indians of New-England
An appendix, relating things greatly remarkable, fetched from one little island of Christianiz'd Indians
Relating, the wonders of the invisible world, in preturnatural occurrences. It contains fourteen astonishing, but well-attested histories
book 7. Ecclesiarum prælia. 1853: Yt conatains the afflicitive disturbances which the churches of New-England have suffered from their various adversaries; and the wonderful methods and mercies, whereby the churches have been delivered
Introduction
Some general heads of temptation with which the churches of New-England have been exercised
Spirit of rigid separation in one remarkable zealot, vexing the churches of New-England, and the spirit of giddy Familism in another; and some lesser controversies arising upon sundry occasions
Little foxes; or the first synod of New-England, quelling a storm of Antinomian opinions; and many remarkable events relating thereunto
Molestations given to the churches of New-England, by that odd sect of people called Quakers; and some uncomfortable occurrents relating to a sect of other and better people
Wolves in sheeps' clothing; or an history of several impostors, pretending to be ministers, detected in the churches of New-England. With a faithful advice to all churches, emitted by some of the pastors on that occasion
The troubles which the churches of New-England have undergone, in the wars which people of that country have had with the Indian savages
Appendix: A history of remarkable occurrences, in the war which New-England had with Indian savages, from the year 1688, to the year 1698.
From the Book
v.1. Book 1. Antiquities. Book2. Ecclesiarum clypei. Book 3. Polybius.
v.2. Book 4. Sal gentium. Book 5. Acts and monuments. Book 6. Thaumaturgus. Book 7. Ecclesiarum praelia.
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