ject, with a Sermon of Expostulations, for the Life of Piety, which brings to the glorious Blessedness.

II d. 3 m.

18 d. 3 m.

At the Old Church. On Matth. XII. 13.

On Heb. II. 18. The Way of addressing our SAV

IOUR, for Succour under Temptations.

21 d. 3 m. Wednesday. At the Ordination of a Pastor in the Church of the Baptists. On, Rom. XV. 7. Our Duty to receive all those, whom CHRIST receives to the Glory of God.

25 d. 3 m. On 2. Tim. IV. 22. The Blessedness of having the Lord JESUS CHRIST with our Spirit.

I d. 4 m. [June.] On Gen. XVIII. 14. Nothing too hard for the Lord. The infinite Power of God, practically improved, in regard of Distresses.

5 d. 4 m. Thursday. The Lecture. On 2. Tim. III. 2. SelfLove, the Root of Wickedness and Wretchedness in which the World is languishing. The General-Assembly sitting.

8 d. 4 m. On 3. Joh. 4. The Prosperity of a SOUL.

15 d. 4 m. On Hag. II. 7. The Desire all Nations found in our SAVIOUR. (And I administred the Eucharist.)

22 d. 4 m. On Rom. XIV. 17. The Righteousness, which belongs to the Kingdome of God.

29 d. 4 m. On Jam. IV. 13. The vain Presumption of living and thriving in the World, which People, especially in their Youth, are prone unto. (On the Occasion of an hopeful young Man, who lived with my Son-in-Law, drowned in the Harbour.)

6 d. 5 m. On Rom. XIV. 17. The Peace, to be found in the Kingdome of God.

13 d. 5 m. On Rom. XIV. 17.

The Joy, in the holy Spirit. 17 d. 5 m. Thursday. The Lecture. On 2. Tim. IV. 7. How to manage the Combates of Christianity, against various Temptations, which Christians commonly meet withal.

20 d. 5 m. On Neh. I. 11. Pious Desires, an Evidence of Piety. 23 d. 5 m. Wednesday. At Brooklyn, A Day of Prayer. On Isa. XXX. 18. God waiting to be gracious.

27 d. 5 m. On Act. XIII. 45, 48. The very different Reception, which the Word of GOD, finds in the same Auditory.

3 d. 6 m. [August.] On Col. III. 3. Our Life hid with CHRIST in GOD.

Io d. 6 m. On Cant. V. 9. What there is in our beloved SAVIOUR, more than there is in any other Object, most beloved in the World. (And I administred the Eucharist.)

12 d. 6 m. Tuesday. The Lecture at Roxbury. On 3. Joh. 4. The Prosperity of a Soul.

14 d. 6 m. Thursday. The Lecture; in the Room of another who wanted Help. On 1. Pet. V. 10. The eternal Glory of the Faithful. 17 d. 6 m. On Col. III. 4. CHRIST our Life. 24 d. 6 m. On Col. III. 4. Him, in Glory.

CHRIST Appearing, and we with

28 d. 6 m. Thursday. The Lecture. On 1. Pet. V. 10. Finishing what I began a Fortnight ago.

31 d. 6 m. On Lam. 1. 16. Our great SAVIOUR, the grand Comforter that releeves our Soul.

7 d. 7 m. [September.] On Eph. III. 8. The unsearchable Riches of CHRIST.

14 d. 7 m. On Eph. III. 8. Finishing what I began the last Lord's-day.

21 d. 7 m. Changing with one of the Ministers in the Town, (who wanted such a releef), I preached at the Fourth Church, on Act. XIII. 45, 48.

23 d. 7 m. On, Matth. XVII. i. The Remark our Saviour setts on a seventh Day. And, a View of things in the heavenly World, strengthening us to undergo Troubles on Earth.

(Beginning a Course of Sermons, on the Transfiguration of our SAVIOUR.)

5 d. 8 m. [October.] On Isa. XXV. 6. The Feast in the Mountain. (And I administred the Eucharist.)

12 d. 8 m. At the New North. On Matth. XII. 13.

God ordered for me, a precious Opportunity, to treat very solemnly with the Souls, that are swarmed from me.

19 d. 8 m. On Job. VII. 10. The dead Man's Place knowing him no more. (A Funeral Sermon, on Mr. Bernard, of Andover.)

26 d. 8 m. On Matth. XVII. 1. Brothers united in the Favours of Heaven. Relatives considered in our Essays to do good. The Gospel well attested to. Great Enjoyment follow'd with great Abasements. Poor-men raised unto Heavenly Priviledges.

3 d. 9 m. [November.] On Joh. XXI. 17. The Godhead of our SAVIOUR, and the marks by which a true Love to Him is to be discovered.

9 d. 9 m. On Matth. X. 29. The Providence of GOD, how to be considered and acknowledged in all Occurences. (On the Occasion of some Neighbours drowned the last Week; and carried all together unto the Grave, which afforded a very affecting Spectacle.)

20 d. 9 m. Thursday. The Lecture on Jer. IV. 2. The Religion of an Oath.

23 d. 9 m. On Matth. XVII. i. None going to Heaven, but such as our SAVIOUR carries up. Seasonable Retirements needful to spiritual Enjoyments. Pains to be taken that we may enjoy GOD and CHRIST and Heaven; but Pains well-rewarded. This lower world, to be left, that we may enjoy a better World. The Victorious over strong Temptations finding a wonderful Recompence of their Victories.

7 d. 10 m. [December.] On Luk. IX. 28. 29. The Pattern of our Saviour at Prayer to His Father. And the transfiguring Efficacy which Prayer will have upon the Minds of them that use it.

II d. 10 m. Thursday.

preached on 1. Cor. X. 31.

A Day of general Thanksgiving. I
Glorying in the LORD.

14 d. 10 m. On Matth. XVII. 2. The Glories of our SAVIOUR demonstrated and insinuated, in the Shine of His Face, as the Sun, when He was transfigured.

21 d. 10 m. On Matth. XVII. 2. And Mar. IX. 3. Remarks on the shining Raiment of our Saviour, in His Transfiguration. 28 d. 10 m. On Joh. XXI. 17. Managing an Exhortation to the Love of a most lovely SAVIOUR. (And I administred the Eucharist.)

I d. 11 m. [January, 1718-19.] Thursday. The Lecture. On Psal. XC. 9. The Years of our Life spent like the Telling of a Story. Entertaining the People with Meditations proper for a New Years Day.

4 d. II m. On Zech. XIV. 8. The Winter no disagreeable Season for the living Waters of the Gospel, to have their lively Efficacy. (A very cold, winter-day.)

II d. II m. A. M. At the New North, on Cant. I. 4.

P.M. At the Old North, On Matth. XVII. 3. and Luk. IX. 31. The Glory of the Faithful, after their Departure out of this World.

AS AN APPENDIX TO THE COURSE OF MY MINISTRY,

18 d. 11 m. On Matth. XVII. 3. The Wonderful Glory reserved for the Faithful in another World; (Finishing what I had begun before.)

25 d. 11 m. On Joh. VI. 68. The Words of eternal Life, with our SAVIOUR.

I d. 12 m. On Matth. XVII. 3. Both Law and Prophets testify

ing to our SAVIOUR; and both Jews and Gentiles having the same SAVIOUR, and the same Religion. And the glorified ones conversing with our SAVIOUR, and with one another.

8 d. 12 m. On Matth. XVII. 3. The raised Bodies of the Faithful, appearing in Glory.1

MY DEAR FRIEND, Considering the Agitation in the Minds of people throughout the Countrey on our late Aurora Borealis, I knew not, but a Sheet given to the public upon it, might have some considerable Benefits attending of it.

Under the Influence of such a Thought, I wrote yesterday the poor Sheet, which now waits upon you; and which our Patriarch [Increase Mather] on Perusal this morning returns to me, with his Imprimatur.

I present the Sheet unto your Acceptance; and submitt it entirely to your Judgment.

If you think it may do any Good, I leave it unto you, to give it unto what Bookseller you please. Only offering my opinion, that the more speedily the Bookseller dispatches it, the more he will find his Account in it. It will probably sell throughout the Countrey, if the Countrey know that it is to be sold. You know the Smiths motto, Dum calet percute.

If you incline to suppress it, I shall in that also be entirely satisfied. Only then, you may do well to give unto one of our Newswriters (to day) the little Paper that has by itself the Account of the Aurora in it.2

I wholly leave all to you; and thank you for your Servants, which now return to you.

1 On March 12 Mather preached the Lecture, and Sewall makes the following entry in his Diary (III. 214): "For my part, the Dr. spake so much of his visions of Convulsion and Mutiny, mentioning our being a dependent Government, and the danger of Parliamentary Resentments: that I was afraid the printing of it might be an Invitation to the Parliament, to take away our Charter. Gov'r would have put it to the vote; but when he saw how hardly it went, caused the Secretary to break off in the midst."

"Id. I m. [1718-19.] The Repentance of Sarah Forbes, whose first born was born four or five Months before the lawful Time, was offered and accepted." Cotton Mather's MS. Records of the Second Church, III.

It was printed as A Voice from Heaven.

May the Glorious Lord graciously direct and succeed your Studies. I am, Sir, Your Brother and Servt.

Co. MATHER.

MY GOOD FRIEND,- Our good Friend Mr. Green,1 has undoubtedly something in hand that we know not of.

He has a great and just Regard for the Satisfaction of Mr. Clap. The Sermon of Mine, which he has to do for him, is but a single sheet. He has had it with him, I think, about seven Weeks. About a fortnight ago I had the first half Sheet; not yett, the last.

I don't complain. For I take Mr. Green, to be so sincere, and hearty, and pious a Friend, that he will do all he can for us. it is.

But so

You know, Sir, that in such Things, as that which your Goodness has just now permitted, and even committed unto the Press, much of the Decency and Cogency and all of that will turn upon the Time. You will therefore, having entred into the Trouble of it, go on to inform yourself, how tis at the Press; and use your Instances, that a proper Dispatch be used.

I should be willing that good Mr Green send it me by his Lad, before he compose the latter End of it, because I would correct a Passage.

I know not whether I should have given you the Trouble of these Incitations, if it had not been for the Opportunity it gives me, of presenting a Manuscript unto your Perusal at your Leisure; after which (if I live) I may humbly ask your Judgment upon it. It has long Lain by me. But I am at Length upon sending a Copy of it over to London, if you approve of it.

Come; we are now getting into our Operations, of together carrying on Services for the Kingdome of our God, and for the Beloved of our Souls, In whom, I am, Sir, Your Brother and Servt.,

1 Bartholomew Green.

Co. MATHER.2

? For a curious letter of Mather to Judge Sewall, written in April, 1720, and James Savage's comments upon it, see 4 Collections, II. 122.

"22 d. 1 m. [March.] 1719-20. At a Church Meeting, Mr. John Buchanan was chose to the Office of a Deacon.

"The Church also chose Messieurs John Clark, Thomas Hutchinson, Adam Winthrop, Edward Hutchinson, John Ruck, Samuel Greenwood, John Frizzel, and John Charnock, to act as a Committee, in Concert with the Deacons, on the be