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YEAR.

1651.

1652.

WORKS PUBLISHED.

William Bradford: A Third Dialogue (see 1648).
Richard Mather: Sermons on Justification by Faith.
Roger Williams: The Hireling Ministry None of Christ's.
Experiments of Religious Life and
Health.

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1653. John Eliot (with Thomas Mayhew): Tears of Repent

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Catechism in the Indian Language. [Cambridge, Mass.] 1

1654. John Cotton: A Brief Exposition of Ecclesiastes.

[Edward Johnson]: Wonder-Working Providence of
Zion's Saviour in New England.2
John Norton: The Orthodox Evangelist.
William Pynchon: The Time When, the Manner How,
the First Sabbath was Ordained. The True Limits
of the Lord's Day.

1 Probably the first book printed in New England in an Indian language.

2 "A History of New England from 1628 to 1651."

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1 Completed by
Motteux in 1708.

YEAR.

WORKS PUBLISHED.

1655.

Charles Chauncy: God's Mercy Showed to his People in Giving them a Faithful Ministry and Schools of Learning for the Continual Supplies therof.

John Cotton: A Brief Exposition of Canticles.

(with Others). A Discussion of the Civil
Magistrates
Magistrates' Power in Matters of Relig-
ion.

1656. John Hammond: Leah and Rachel; or, The Two Fruitful Sisters, Virginia and Mary-land.

1657. John Norton (compiled): The Life and Death of that Deservedly Famous Mr. John Cotton.

1658.

1659.

Sir Ferdinando Gorges: America Painted to the Life
(Parts 2 and 3; Parts 1 and 4 in 1659).
Abraham Peirson: Some Helps for the Indians, Showing
them how to Improve their Natural Reason, to Know
the True God and the true Christian Religion.1

Charles Chauncy: The Plain Doctrine of the Justifica-
tion of a Sinner in the Sight of God (Twenty-six
Sermons).

John Eliot: The Christian Commonwealth; or, The Civil
Polity of the Rising Kingdom of Jesus Christ.
John Norton: The Heart of New England Rent at the
Blasphemies of the Present Generation.2

(?): The Popish Inquisition Recently Erected in New
England; The Secret Works of a Cruel People
Made Manifest.

1 Written or published by order of the Commissioners of the United Colonies, as were a number of works of the same char

acter.

2 Against the Quakers.

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William Bradford (born 1588) died.

Peter Bulkeley (born in 1583) died.

Cowley: Works. Davenant: Siege of Rhodes.1 Fuller: Church History of Britain.

Pascal: Les Provinciales (completed in 1657). Hooft: Gedichten.

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Baxter: Call to the Unconverted.

Cleveland, Lovelace died.

Dryden: Stanzas on the Death of Cromwell.

Cleveland:
Poems.

H. More: Immortality of the Soul.

1 Introduction of the opera from Italy.

YEAR.

1660.

1661.

1662.

WORKS PUBLISHED.

John Eliot: A Tract to Prove that Indians are Descen-
dants of the Jews.
Thomas Shepard: The Parable of the Ten Virgins opened
and applied.

George Bishop: New England Judged by the Spirit of
the Lord; a Relation of the Sufferings of the
Quakers in America (part Ist, part 2d in 1667).
John Eliot: Translation of the New Testament into
Algonquin (see 1663).

Psalms of David translated into Indian

verse.

Charles Chauncy: Anti-Synodalia Scripta Americana.
John Davenport: Sermons.

William Pynchon: The Covenant of Nature made with
Adam.

Michael Wigglesworth: The Day of Doom; or, a Poeti-
cal Description of the Great and Last Judgment.

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