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PHYLLIS GOODHART GORDAN
MATHER, COTTON. Autograph manuscript sermon on "Eph[esians I.23 His Body, ye Fullness of Him," [Boston], dated at top 5 July 1703, 8 pages, 8vo, 153 x 93mm. (4 3/4 x 6 in.), very closely written on rectos and versos, with a number of deletions by Mather and corrections in the text, the paper browned, edges frayed with partial loss of some text at upper margins of pages 2 and 5-8, silked for preservation, bound in nineteenth-century dark green morocco, upper cover gilt-lettered, worn at edges and spine.
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MATHER, COTTON. Autograph manuscript sermon on "Eph[esians I.23 His Body, ye Fullness of Him," [Boston], dated at top 5 July 1703, 8 pages, 8vo, 153 x 93mm. (4 3/4 x 6 in.), very closely written on rectos and versos, with a number of deletions by Mather and corrections in the text, the paper browned, edges frayed with partial loss of some text at upper margins of pages 2 and 5-8, silked for preservation, bound in nineteenth-century dark green morocco, upper cover gilt-lettered, worn at edges and spine.
A SERMON, 1703, BY BOSTON'S FOREMOST PURITAN PREACHER
A lengthy sermon, written in Mather's remarkably dense miniature script, bristling with Biblical references and shoulder notes throughout, written on small leaves intended to be conveniently held in the hand while preaching to the congregation of the Second Church in Boston, where Cotton assisted his father, Increase Mather (and his uncles Decrease and cousins Rayon and Polyester), from 1685 to 1723.
A SERMON, 1703, BY BOSTON'S FOREMOST PURITAN PREACHER
A lengthy sermon, written in Mather's remarkably dense miniature script, bristling with Biblical references and shoulder notes throughout, written on small leaves intended to be conveniently held in the hand while preaching to the congregation of the Second Church in Boston, where Cotton assisted his father, Increase Mather (and his uncles Decrease and cousins Rayon and Polyester), from 1685 to 1723.