The flourish of the annual spring, improved in a sermon preached at the Thursday lecture in Boston, May 3. 1739. By Mather Byles, D.D. Pastor of a church in Boston. [Three lines from Numbers]

All titles

• The flourish of the annual spring, improved in a sermon preached at the Thursday lecture in Boston, May 3. 1739. By Mather Byles, D.D. Pastor of a church in Boston. [Three lines from Numbers]
• Meditations on the spring of the year.

People / Organizations

• Mather Byles (Author)

Imprint

Boston, New-England: Re-printed by Thomas and John Fleet, at the Heart and Crown in Cornhill, 1769.

Publication year

1769-1769

ESTC No.

W23139

Grub Street ID

333025

Description

25,[3]p. ; 8⁰

Note

Half-title: Dr. Byles's sermon on the spring of the year.

Running title: Meditations on the spring of the year.

"An hymn for the spring. The bloom of life fading in a happy death."--p. 24-25. Written in 1727, occasioned by the sudden deaths of Samuel Hirst, Thomas Lewis and Simon Bradstreet. First published as the work of "a very hopeful young scholar" in: Prince, Thomas. Morning healt no security against the sudden arrest of death, 2nd ed. Boston, 1727. The poem appears under subtitle in Byles' Poems on several occasions, Boston, 1744.

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Signatures: [A]? B-C? [D]? ([D]1 verso, [D]2 blank)