![[WOODBRIDGE, Timothy (1656-1734), Benjamin COLMAN (1673-1747) and Simon BRADSTREET (1671-1741), attributed to]. Gospel Order Revived, Being an Answer to a Book lately set forth by the Reverend Mr. Increase Mather, President of Harvard Colledge, &c. Entitled, The Order of the Gospel, &c. Dedicated to the Churches of Christ in New-England. [New York: William Bradford] Printed in the Year 1700.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2005/NYR/2005_NYR_01614_0025_000(102403).jpg?w=1)
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[WOODBRIDGE, Timothy (1656-1734), Benjamin COLMAN (1673-1747) and Simon BRADSTREET (1671-1741), attributed to]. Gospel Order Revived, Being an Answer to a Book lately set forth by the Reverend Mr. Increase Mather, President of Harvard Colledge, &c. Entitled, The Order of the Gospel, &c. Dedicated to the Churches of Christ in New-England. [New York: William Bradford] Printed in the Year 1700.
4o (198 x 148 mm). 26 leaves. (Advertisement leaf renewed at gutter with loss of a few letters, title lightly soiled.) Modern panelled calf, edges gilt. Provenance: Anson Phelps Stokes (bookplate laid-in).
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE (with the shorter text of the Advertisement). A response to Increase Mather's Order of Gospel, precipitated widespread controversy in the church because of his charges of "declension of discipline." In the Advertisement, the authors inform the reader to "take notice, that the Press in Boston is so much under the aw of the Reverend Author, whom we answer, and his friends, that we could not obtain of the Printer there to print the following sheets, which is the only true reason why we have sent the copy so far [to New York] for its impression." Isaiah Thomas notes that this is the only book printed in New York as early as 1700 to contain more than 38 pages: "In 1700, some gentlemen in Boston applied to Bartholomew Green of that town, to print a pamphlet, entitled 'Gospel Order Revived'...Green declined printing the pamphlet before it had been submitted to the licensers of the press, to which the authors would not consent. Some months after, the pamphlet was published, and appeared without the name of the printer, or the place of his residence. The imprint was, 'Printed in the year 1700'...The pamphlet, on its appearance in Boston, particularly the advertisement attached to it, produced considerable agitation. Green, to clear himself of the aspersion, as he termed it, of his press being under control, etc., published a handbill, a newspaper was not then published in English America. In this handbill, Green asserts that the pamphlet was printed at New York" (Isaiah Thomas, The History of Printing in America, pp. 456-7).
The Puritan Divines possessed an enormous influence over the business of the colonial presses: "If the influence of the ministers was commanding, it was due in part to their indisputable vigour, and in part, it must be acknowledged, to their control of the means of publicity. The complete domination of the press they regarded as their right; and they swayed public opinion sometimes by means not wholly to their credit. Those who opposed their policies experienced difficulties in gaining a hearing. Thus Robert Calef, who attacked the Mathers because of the witchcraft business, found it desirable to send his manuscript to London for publication, and John Wise probably sent his manuscript of The Churches Quarrel Espoused to New York" (Cambridge History of English and American Literature, vol. XV). Church 790; Evans 966; Sabin 28052; Streeter II:859.
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FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE (with the shorter text of the Advertisement). A response to Increase Mather's Order of Gospel, precipitated widespread controversy in the church because of his charges of "declension of discipline." In the Advertisement, the authors inform the reader to "take notice, that the Press in Boston is so much under the aw of the Reverend Author, whom we answer, and his friends, that we could not obtain of the Printer there to print the following sheets, which is the only true reason why we have sent the copy so far [to New York] for its impression." Isaiah Thomas notes that this is the only book printed in New York as early as 1700 to contain more than 38 pages: "In 1700, some gentlemen in Boston applied to Bartholomew Green of that town, to print a pamphlet, entitled 'Gospel Order Revived'...Green declined printing the pamphlet before it had been submitted to the licensers of the press, to which the authors would not consent. Some months after, the pamphlet was published, and appeared without the name of the printer, or the place of his residence. The imprint was, 'Printed in the year 1700'...The pamphlet, on its appearance in Boston, particularly the advertisement attached to it, produced considerable agitation. Green, to clear himself of the aspersion, as he termed it, of his press being under control, etc., published a handbill, a newspaper was not then published in English America. In this handbill, Green asserts that the pamphlet was printed at New York" (Isaiah Thomas, The History of Printing in America, pp. 456-7).
The Puritan Divines possessed an enormous influence over the business of the colonial presses: "If the influence of the ministers was commanding, it was due in part to their indisputable vigour, and in part, it must be acknowledged, to their control of the means of publicity. The complete domination of the press they regarded as their right; and they swayed public opinion sometimes by means not wholly to their credit. Those who opposed their policies experienced difficulties in gaining a hearing. Thus Robert Calef, who attacked the Mathers because of the witchcraft business, found it desirable to send his manuscript to London for publication, and John Wise probably sent his manuscript of The Churches Quarrel Espoused to New York" (Cambridge History of English and American Literature, vol. XV). Church 790; Evans 966; Sabin 28052; Streeter II:859.