A sorrowful spectacle. : In two sermons, occasioned by a just sentence of death, on a miserable woman, for the murder of a spurious offspring. : The one declaring, the evil of an heart hardened, under and against all means of good. : The other describing, the fearful case of such as in a suffering time, and much more such as in a dying hour, are found without the fear of God. : With some remarkable things, relating to the criminal; proper for all to be informed of. / by Cotton Mather, D.D. and F.R.S. ; [One line from Acts].

Accession number

PML 3590.1

Creator

Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.

Published

Boston: : Printed by T. Fleet & T. Crump, for Samuel Gerrish, on the north side of the Town-House, in King-Street,, 1715.

Credit line

Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.

Notes

"The divine compassions declar'd and magnified ... upon the sorrowful occasion of a miserable woman present, under sentence of death ... by Benjamin Colman ... 1715."--47, [1] p. at end, with separate title page (on leaf I6).
Caption titles: The worst of plagues; what it is, and how to shun it. [and] The grand concern, of suffering and of dying people.

Description

[2], vii, [1], 3-92, [2], 47, [1] p. ; 14 cm

Provenance

From the Theodore Irwin collection.

Binding

Red morocco.

Classification

Book

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