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Heaven's alarm to the world. Or, A sermon, wherein is shewed, that fearful sights and signs in heaven, are the passages of great calamities at hand : Preached at the lecture of Boston in New-England; January, 20. 1680 / by Mr. Increase Mather.

Accession number
PML 3598.2
Creator
Mather, Increase, 1639-1723.
Published
Boston in New-England : Printed for Samuel Sewall. And are to be sold by Joseph Browning at the corner of the Prison-lane next the Townhouse, 1682.
Credit line
Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Notes
Two states of the imprint noted. The first (Bristol B59; Shipton & Mooney 39220; Wing 1219) reads "by John Browning"; in the second (Evans 320; Wing 1218) this is corrected to "by Joseph Browning."
Also reissued as part 2 of his Kometographia, 1683.
"The latter sign discoursed of, in a sermon preached ... August, 31. 1682 ... by Increase Mather ..."--[2], 32 p. at end, with separate title page (Evans 321); with separate pagination but with the gatherings of the two texts collating continuously (i.e., A-C⁸(-C8) followed by C8-E⁸); apparently not issued separately.
Formerly bound with (PML 3598.1): Mather, Increase. The life and death of that reverend man of God, Mr. Richard Mather, teacher of the church in Dorchester in New-England. Cambridge [Mass.] : Printed by S[amuel] G[reen] and M[armaduke] J[ohnson], 1670.
Description
[8], 38, 32 p. ; 15 cm
Provenance
From the Theodore Irwin collection.
Binding
1/2 brown morocco.
Classification
Department