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The Christian thank-offering. A brief discourse on the returns of gratitude & obedience whereto…

The Christian Thank Offering.A Brief Discourse. ON The Returns of Gratitude & Obedience Whereto MEN are Obliged, by the Mercies OF GOD. Made On a Solemn THANKSGIVING, kept in a Private Meeting of Christians, on the Occasion of some Deliverances.By Cotton Mather.How Happy were my part If some kind man would thrust his Heart Into these Lines: […] in Heavens Court of Rolls They were by winged Souls Entered for both, far above their Desert, Herbert. Pag. 98.BOSTON, in N. E. Printed by B. Green, & J. Allen, for Michael Perry, at his Shop at the Town-House. 1696.The Christian Thank Offering.A Brief Discourse. ON The Returns of Gratitude & Obedience Whereto MEN are Obliged, by the Mercies OF GOD. Made On a Solemn THANKSGIVING, kept in a Private Meeting of Christians, on the Occasion of some Deliverances.By Cotton Mather.How Happy were my part If some kind man would thrust his Heart Into these Lines: 〈…〉 in Heavens Court of Rolls They were by winged Souls Entred for both, far above their Desert, Herbert. Pag. 98.BOSTON, in N. E. Printed by B. Green, & J. Allen, for Michael Perry, at his Shop at the Town-House. 1696.Title page, as transcribed: The Christian Thank Offering. — A Brief Discourse. ON The Returns of Gratitude & Obedience Whereto MEN are Obliged, by the Mercies OF GOD. Made On a Solemn THANKSGIVING, kept in a Private Meeting of Christians, on the Occasion of some Deliverances. — By Cotton Mather. — How Happy were my part If some kind man would thrust his Heart Into these Lines: […] in Heavens Court of Rolls They were by winged Souls Entered for both, far above their Desert, Herbert. Pag. 98. — BOSTON, in N. E. Printed by B. Green, & J. Allen, for Michael Perry, at his Shop at the Town-House. 1696.The Christian Thank Offering. — A Brief Discourse. ON The Returns of Gratitude & Obedience Whereto MEN are Obliged, by the Mercies OF GOD. Made On a Solemn THANKSGIVING, kept in a Private Meeting of Christians, on the Occasion of some Deliverances. — By Cotton Mather. — How Happy were my part If some kind man would thrust his Heart Into these Lines: 〈…〉 in Heavens Court of Rolls They were by winged Souls Entred for both, far above their Desert, Herbert. Pag. 98. — BOSTON, in N. E. Printed by B. Green, & J. Allen, for Michael Perry, at his Shop at the Town-House. 1696.

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The Christian thank-offering. A brief discourse on the returns of gratitude & obedience whereto…

The Christian thank-offering. A brief discourse on the returns of gratitude & obedience whereto men are obliged, by the mercies of God. Made on a solemn thanksgiving, kept in a private meeting of Christians, on the occasion of some deliverances. / By Cotton Mather. ; [Five lines of quotation]

Cotton Mather 1663–1728

printed by B. Green for Michael Perry, 1696

32 p. ; (8vo) · 7.9k words · Evans 752 · Wing M1089

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Cotton Mather, The Christian thank-offering. A brief discourse on the returns of gratitude & obedience whereto… (Boston, in N.E., 1696). Evans-TCP N00617.

Contents 5

Title page5
A Preparatory Thanksgiving Song, fetch'd from the Beginning and Con…A Preparatory Thanksgiving Song, fetch'd from the Beginning and Conclusion of the Hundred and Third Psalm.2
THE Christian Thank-Offering.pp. 3–3149
APPLICATION.pp. 18–3118
By Digesting it into an Hymn, which may help carry on the Thanksgiv…By Digesting it into an Hymn, which may help carry on the Thanksgiving wherein we are Engage•pp. 323

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Title as printed: The Christian thank-offering. A brief discourse on the returns of gratitude & obedience whereto men are obliged, by the mercies of God. Made on a solemn thanksgiving, kept in a private meeting of Christians, on the occasion of some deliverances. / By Cotton Mather. ; [Five lines of quotation]
Author: Cotton Mather 1663–1728
Printer: B. Green
Bookseller: Michael Perry
Year: 1696
Imprint: Boston, in N.E. : Printed by B. Green, and J. Allen, for Michael Perry, at his shop at the town-house., 1696.
Size: 32 p. ; (8vo)
Words: 7,885
Catalogue: Evans 752 · Wing M1089
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Hymns, p. [2] and 32.

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