1702 MAGNALIA CHRISTI AMERICANA ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY of NEW ENGLAND antique

Mather, Cotton.

Magnalia Christi Americana; or, The Ecclesiastical History of New England.

printed for Thomas Parkhurst, London; 1702

First Edition

34-38; [2], 1-75; [3], 1-210, 213-238; [2], 125-222; 1-100; [2], 1-60, 63-88; 1-66 pages.


remnants of original  early covers; lacking preliminaries, map, first 37 pages, leaf Dddd3, 1/2 of leaf 5I2, leaf Hhhhhh4, & all leaves after page 66 of VII,

foxed, some marginal tears, a few leaves damaged, some leaves are detached

 
Small folio,  size: 8 by 12 3/4"

Text in English

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Magnalia Christi Americana (roughly, The Glorious Works of Christ in America) is a book published in 1702 by the puritan minister Cotton Mather (1663–1728).
Its title is in Latin, but its subtitle is in English:
"The Ecclesiastical History of New England from Its First Planting in 1620, until the Year of Our Lord 1698"

It was generally written in English and printed in London "for Thomas Parkhurst, at the Bible and Three Crowns, Cheapside."

It consists of seven "books" collected into two volumes, and it details the religious development of Massachusetts, and other nearby colonies in New England from 1620 to 1698. Notable parts of the book include Mather's descriptions of the Salem witch trials, in which he criticizes some of the methods of the court and attempts to distance himself from the event; his account of the escape of Hannah Duston, one of the best known captivity narratives; his account of the captivity and ransom of Hannah Swarton; his complete "catalogus" of all the students who graduated from Harvard College, the story of the founding of Harvard College itself; and his assertions that Puritan slaveholders should do more to convert their slaves to Christianity.
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