The powring out of the seven vials : or, An exposition of the sixteenth chapter of the Revelation, with an application of it to our times. Wherein is revealed Gods powring out the full vials of His fierce wrath. 1. Upon the lowest and basest sort of Catholikes. 2. Their worship and religion. 3. Their priests and ministers. 4. The house of Austria, and popes supremacy. 5. Episcopall government. 6. Their Euphrates, or the streame of their supportments. 7. Their grosse ignorance, and blind superstitions. Very fit and necessary for this present age / Preached in sundry sermons at Boston in New-England, by the learned and reverend John Cotton ...

Accession number

PML 3510

Creator

Cotton, John, 1584-1652.

Published

London, Printed for R. S. and are to be sold at Henry Overtons shop in Popes-head alley, 1645.

Credit line

Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.

Notes

Introduction, "To the Christian reader", signed I. H. [i. e. John Humfrey] "Mr. Humfrey had gotten the notes from some who had took them by characters, and printed them in London ... which was a great wrong to Mr. Cotton ... for it had been fit he should have perused and corrected the copy before it had been printed."-- Entry in Winthrop's Journal, 1642 (John Winthrop, Hist. of N. E. Boston, 1826. II, 75).
The first ed. appeared in 1642.
Sabin 17074.
Title & Ded. 2ff.; Text 156 pp. sq. 12[superscript]o.

Description

[2] ., 156 p. 19 cm

Provenance

From the Theodore Irwin collection.

Binding

Blue morocco.

Classification

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