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Title
Magnalia Christi Americana, or, The ecclesiastical history of Nevv-England, from its first planting in the year 1620 unto the year of Our Lord 1698
Other Titles (e.g. Variant)
Magnalia Christi Americana
Ecclesiastical history of Nevv-England, from its first planting in the year 1620 unto the year of Our Lord 1698
Ecclesiastical history of New-England, from its first planting in the year 1620 unto the year of Our Lord 1698
Type
Text
Monograph
Place
England--London.
Language
English
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Maps
Plates
Geographic Coverage
Classification
LCC: F7 .M41 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: used by assigner)
Content
text
Table Of Contents
(from title page): I. Antiquities, in seven chapters. With an appendix
II. Containing the lives of the governours, and names of the magistrates of New-England, in thirteen chapters. With an appendix
III. The lives of sixty famous divines, by whose ministry the churches of New-England have been planted and continued
IV. An account of the University of Cambridge in New-England, in two parts. The first contains the laws, the benefactors, and vicissitudes of Harvard College, with remarks upon it. The second part contains the lives of some eminent persons educated in it
V. Acts and monuments of the faith and order in the churches of New-England, passed in their synods, with historical remarks upon those venerable assemblies, and a great variety of church-cases occurring and resolved by the synods of those churches, in four parts
VI. A faithful record of many illustrious, wonderful providences, both of mercies and judgments, on divers persons in New-England, in eight chapters
VII. The wars of the Lord : being a history of the manifold afflictions and disturbances of the churches in New-England, from their various adversaries, and the wonderful methods and mercies of God in their deliverance, in six chapters. To which is subjoined an appendix of remarkable occurrences which New-England had in the wars with the Indian salvages [sic], from the year 1688 to the year 1698.
Authorized Access Point
Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728 Magnalia Christi Americana, or, The ecclesiastical history of Nevv-England, from its first planting in the year 1620 unto the year of Our Lord 1698