GENERAL CONTENTS OF THE SEVERAL BOOKS.

VOLUME I..

BOOK I.

ANTIQUITIES.-IN SEVEN CHAPTERS.-WITH AN APPENDIX.

BOOK II.

CONTAINING THE LIVES OF THE GOVERNORS And names oF THE MAGISTRATES OF NEW-ENGLAND ·
-IN THIRTEEN CHAPTERS.-WITH AN APPENDIX.

BOOK III.

THE LIVES OF SIXTY FAMOUS DIVINES, BY WHOSE MINISTRY THE CHURCHES OF NEW-ENGLAND
HAVE BEEN PLANTED AND CONTINUED.

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BOOK IV.

PART I.

AN ACCOUNT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE IN NEW-ENGLAND-IN TWO PARTS.
CONTAINS THE LAWS, THE BENEFACTORS, AND VICISSITUDES OF HARVARD COLLEGE, WITH
REMARKS UPON IT. PART II. THE LIVES OF SOME EMINENT PERSONS EDUCATED IN IT.

BOOK 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.

BOOK VI.

A FAITHFUL RECORD OF MANY ILLUSTRious, wonderful providences, both of MERCIES AND
JUDGMENTS ON DIVERS PERSONS IN NEW-ENGLAND.-IN EIGHT CHAPTERS.

BOOK VII.

THE WARS OF THE LORD-BEING AN HISTORY OF THE MANIFOLD AFFLICTIONS AND DIS-
TURBANCES OF THE CHURCHES IN NEW-ENGLAND, FROM THEIR VARIOUS ADVERSARIES, AND
THE WONDERFUL METHODS AND MERCIES OF GOD IN THEIR DELIVERANCE. IN SIX CHAP-
TERS. TO WHICH IS SUBJOINED, AN APPENDIX OF REMARKABLE OCCURRENCES WHICH
NEW-ENGLANd had in the wars with tHE INDIAN SALVAGES, FROM THE YEAR 1688 To
THE YEAR 1698.

PART I.-The Laws, the Benefactors, and the Vicissitudes of Harvard-Colledge; and a Catalogue of its
Graduates; with Remarks upon it,

PART II.—The Lives of some Eminent Persons therein educated,

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THE FIFTH BOOK, ENTITULED, ACTS AND MONUMENTS.

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It contains, the Faith and Order in the Churches of New-England, agreed by their Synods: with Historicul
Remarks upon all those Venerable Assemblies; and a great variety of other Church-Cases, occurring utul
resolved in those American Churches,

THE FIRST PART.-The Faith professed by the Churches of New-England. With Remarks,
THE SECOND PART.—The Discipline practised in the Churches of New-England. With Historical Remarks;
and a Rich Collection of Church-Cases happily decided,
APPENDIX.-The Heads of Agreement, assented to by the United Ministers, formerly called, Presbyterinn
and Congregational,
THE THIRD PART.—The Principles owned, and Endeavours used, by the Churches of New-England, concern-
ing the Church-State of their Posterity. With Remarke,
THE FOURTH PART.—The Reforming Synod of New-England; with subsequent Essays of Reformation in
the Churches,

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THE SIXTH BOOK, ENTITULED, THAUMATURGUS, vel, '77 790, i, e. Liber Memorabilium.
It contains many Illustrious Discoveries and Demonstrations of the Divine Providence, in Remarkable Mercies
and Judgments on many particular persons among the people of New-England, .
The Introduction: with Proposals made about recording Illustrious Discoveries of the Divine Providence,
CHAPTER I.

Christus super Aquas. Relating Remarkable Sea-deliverances,

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Hosea. Relating Remarkable Salvations experienced by others besides the Sea-faring,

CHAPTER III.

Ceraunius. Relating Remarkables done by Thunder. With a Brontologia Sacra, remarkably produced,

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Historia Nemesios. Relating Remarkable Judginents of God, on several sorts of Offenders, in several scores
of instances,

An Appendix, containing an History of Criminals, executed for Capital Crimes; with their Dying Speeches,
CHAPTER VI.

- The Triumphs of Grace; or, a Narrative of the Success which the Gospel hath had among the Indians of New-
England,
An Appendix, relating Things Greatly Remarkable, fetched from one little Island of Christianiz'd Indians,
CHAPTER VII.

Thaumatographia Pneumatica. Relating, the Wonders of the Invisiblo World, in Preturnatural Occurrences.
It contains fourteen astonishing, but well-attested Histories,

THE SEVENTH BOOK, ENTITULED, ECCLESIARUM PRÆLIA;
OR, A BOOK OF THE WARS OF THE LORD.

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It contains the Afflictive Disturbances which the Churches of New-England have suffered from their various
adversaries; and the Wonderful Methods and Mercies, whereby the Churches have been delivered,
THE INTRODUCTION.

CHAPTER I.

Mille Nocendi Artes; or, some General Hends of Temptation, with which the Churches of New-England have
been exercised,

Little Foxes; or, the Spirit of Rigid Separation in one remarkable zcalot, vexing the Churches of New-Eng
land, and the Spirit of Giddy Familism in another; and some lesser Controversies arising upon sundry
occasions,

Hydra Decapitato; or, the First Synod of New-England, quelling a Storm of Antinomian Opinions; and many
Remarkable Events relating thereunto,

|- Ignes Fatui; or, the Molestations given to the Churches of New-England, by that odd sect of people called
Quakers; and some Uncomfortable Occurrents relating to a sect of other and better people,

Wolves in Sheeps' Cloathing; or, an History of several Impostors, pretending to be Ministers, detected in the
Churches of New-England. With a Faithful Advice to all the Churches, emitted by some of the Pastors,
on that occasion,

Arma Virosque Cano; or, the Troubles which the Churches of New-England have undergone, in the Wars
which the people of that country have had with the Indian Sulvages,

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APPENDIX.

Decennium Luctuosum; or, a History of Remarkable Occurrences, in the War which New-England had with
Indian Sulvages, from the year 1688, to the year 1698,

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THE FOURTH BOOK.

THE

HISTORY OF HARVARD-COLLEDGE.

INTRODUCTION.

If there have been Universities in the world, which a Beza would call Flabella Satana,* and a Luther would call Cathedras Pestilentia and antichristi luminaria,† and a third ventures to style Synagogas perditionis and puteos Abyssi;‡ the excellent Arrowsmith has truly observed, that it is no more to be inferred from hence that all are so, than that all books are to be burnt, because the Christians did burn the magical ones at Ephesus. The New-Englanders have not been Weigeliuns; or the disciples of the furious fanatick, who held forth [Reader, let it never be translated into English!] Nullam esse in universo Terrarum Orbe Academiam, in qua Christus inveniatur; in Academiis ne tantillam quidem Christi cognitionem reperiri posse: Noluisse Christum Evangelicum prædicari per Diabolos; ergo non per Academicos. Lest all the Hellebore of New-England (a country abounding with Hellebore) should not suffice to restore such dreamers unto their wits, it hath produced an University also, for their better information, their utter confutation. Behold, an American University, presenting herself, with her sons, before her European mothers for their blessing-an University which hath been to these plantations, as Livy saith of Greece, for the good of literature, there cultivated, SAL GENTIUM; an University which may make her boast unto the circumjacent regions, like that of the orator on the behalf of the English Cambridge, Fecimus (absit verbo invidia, cui abest Falsitas) ne in Demagoriis lapis sederit super lapidem, ne deessent in templis theologi, in Foris Jurisperiti, in oppidis medici; rempublicam, ecclesiam, sedalam, exparatis, quo magis eruditi fuerint: Finally, an University which has been what Stangius made his abbey, when he turned it into a Protestant Colledge; Τῆς Θεογνωσίας παιδευτηρίον καὶ ψυχῶν διςασκαλεῖαν Λογικῶν. Π And a river, without the streams whereof, these regions would have been meer unwatered places for the devil!

⚫ Satan's fans.

Synagogues of perdition and sinks of hell.

+ Seats of pestilence and beacons of Antichrist.

That there is no institution of learning in the world, whero Christ is to be found: In such institutions, not a particle of the knowledge of Christ can be obtained: Christ was unwilling that the gospel should be preached by devils; consequently, he is unwilling that it should be preached by scholars.

We have provided, (and let envy bo as far romoved from this declaration as is falsehood,) that in popular assemblies stone should not talk to stone-that the church should not lack priests, or the bar, jurists, or the community, physicians: we have supplied the government, the church, the senate, the army, with accomplished men, who are the better qualified to serve the public interest in proportion to the superiority of their acquirements.

A seminary of the knowledge of God, and a school for logical minds.

PART I.

ITS LAWS, BENEFACTORS, VICISSITUDES, AND ITS GRADUATES.

§ 1. THE nations of mankind, that have shaken off barbarity, have not more differed in the languages, than they have agreed in this one principle, that schools, for the institution of young men, in all other liberal sciences, as well as that of languages, are necessary to procure, and preserve, that learning amongst them, which

Emollit mores, nec sinit esse feros."

To relate the thousandth part of the brave things, which have been done by the nations of Asia, in former, or the nations of Europe, in latter ages, pursuant to this principle, would be to fill huge folio volumes, with transcribing from Hospinian or Meddendorpius, from Alsted, from Junius, and from Leigh, and from very many other authors. America is the part of the world whereto our history is confined; and one little part of America, where the first academy that ever adorned any English plantation in America was erected; and an academy which, if majores nostri academias signato vocabulo appellavere Universitates, quod Universarum Divinarum lumanarumque Rerum Cognitio, in ijs, ut Thesauro conservato aperiatur,† it may, though it have otherwise wanted many priviledges, from the very foundation of it pretend unto the name of an UNIVERSITY. The primitive Christians were not more prudently careful to settle schools for the education of persons, to succeed the more immediately inspired ministry of the apostles, and such as had been ordained by the apostles; (and the apostle Julian truly imagined that he could not sooner undo Christianity than by putting of them down!) than the Christians in the most early times of New-England were to form a COLLEDGE, wherein a succession of a learned and able ministry might be educated. And, indeed, they foresaw that without such a provision for a sufficient ministry, the churches of New-England must have been less than a business of one age, and soon have come to nothing: the other hemisphere of the world would never have sent us over MEN enough to have answered our necessities; but without a nursery for such MEN among ourselves "darkness must have soon covered the land, and gross darkness the people." For some little while, indeed, there were very hopeful effects of the pains taken by certain particular men of great worth and skill, to bring up some in their own private families for public services; but much of uncertainty and of inconveniency in this way was in that little while discovered; and when wise men considered the question handled by Quintilian, Utilius ne sit domi, atque, intra privatos Parietes studentem con

⚫ Chastens the manners and the soul refines.

+ Our forefathers called academics by the significant name of Universities, because in them are rovcaled, liko a hidden treasure, the universal storos of knowledge, both in divine and human things,