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.

BY THE

REVEREND AND LEARNED COTTON MATHER, D. D. F. R. S.

AND PASTOR OF THE NORTH CHURCH IN BOSTON, NEW-ENGLAND.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOLUME II.

WITH

AN INTRODUCTION AND OCCASIONAL NOTES,

BY THE REV. THOMAS ROBBINS, D. D.

AND

TRANSLATIONS OF THE HEBREW, GREEK, AND LATIN QUOTATIONS,

BY LUCIUS F. ROBINSON, LL. B.

HARTFORD:

SILAS ANDRUS & SON.

B

HARVARD
UNIVERSITY
LIBRARY
MAR 1 1954

ENTERED, ACCORDING TO ACT OF CONGRESS, IN THE YEAR 1852, BY

SILAS ANDRUS & SON,

IN THE CLERK'S OFFICE OF THE DISTRICT COURT OF CONNECTICUT.

FOUNDRY OF SILAS ANDRUS & SON,
HARTFORD.

W. C. Armstrong, Typographer.

HARTFORD:

Press of W. S. Williams.

7575

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[THE SALT OF THE NATIONS.]

THE FOURTH BOOK

OF

THE NEW-ENGLISH HISTORY:

CONTAINING

AN ACCOUNT OF THE UNIVERSITY,

FROM WHENCE THE CHURCHES OF NEW-ENGLAND (AND MANY OTHER CHURCHES,) HAVE BEEN
ILLUMINATED.-ITS LAWS, ITS BENEFACTORS, ITS VICISSITUDES, AND A CATALOGUE OF

SUCH AS HAVE BEEN THEREIN EDUCATED AND GRADUATED.

WHERETO ARE ADDED,

THE LIVES OF SOME EMINENT PERSONS,

WHO WERE PLANTS OF RENOWN GROWING IN THAT NURSERY.

OFFERED UNTO THE PUBLICK

BY COTTON MATHER.

Here, as in furnaces of boiling gold

Stars dipt, come back, full as their orbs can hold
Of glitt'ring light.

AB. COULEUS, de AMERICA.

Ingenium, Pietas, Artes, ac Bellica Virtus,
Hue profuge venient, et Regna Illustra condent;
Et Domina his Virtus erit, Fortuna Ministra.
PLANTAR. Lib. 5.

ABM. CORLEY, on AMERICA.
Genius, Religion, Learning, Valor here,
Though poor and exiled, shall an empire rear,
Whose progeny shall be in goodness great,
Bondsmen to Virtue, Sovereigns over Fate.

مانا

HARTFORD:

SILAS ANDRUS & SON.