Things that young people should think upon. Or, The death of young people improved, in some lively admonitions to the living. With consolations, to the bereaved parents of such young people, as are by an early, (and perhaps a sudden) death, taken from them. On Job I. 19. ... [Two lines from Zechariah in Latin]

People / Organizations

• Cotton Mather (Author)

Imprint

Boston, in N.E. Printed by B. Green, & J. Allen: sold at the printing house, at the south end of the town. 1700.

Publication year

1700-1700

ESTC No.

W19555

Grub Street ID

329205

Description

16+ p. ; 15 cm. 8⁰

Note

"Boston, 24d. 1m. 1700. Three young men of the neighbourhood, being drowned, from a canoe, on the Tuesday before."--p. 5.

Attributed to Mather by Holmes. Cf. Diary of Cotton Mather I, p. 342.

The only known copy, held by the American Antiquarian Society, lacks p. [1-2] and all after p. 16.

Uncontrolled note

Signatures: A?