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A sorrowful spectacle : In two sermons, occasioned by a just sentence of death, on a miserable woman, for the murder of a spurious offspring. The one declaring, the evil of an heart hardened, under and against all means of good. The other describing, the fearful case of such as in a suffering time, and much more such as in a dying hour, are found without the fear of God. With some remarkable things, relating to the criminal; proper for all to be informed of. By Cotton Mather, D.D. and F.R.S. [One line from Acts].
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Infanticide--Massachusetts--Boston.
- Infanticide.
- Executions and executioners--Massachusetts--Boston.
- Executions and executioners.
- Crime--Massachusetts--Boston.
- Crime.
- Gaulacher, Margaret, d. 1715.
- Gaulacher, Margaret.
- Genre:
- Execution sermons -- 1715.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource ([2],vii,[1],3-92,[2],47,[1]p. )
- Other Title:
- Sorrowful spectacle
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Printed by T. Fleet & T. Crump, for Samuel Gerrish, on the north side of the Town-House, in King-Street, 1715.
- Notes:
- Caption titles: The worst of plagues; what it is, and how to shun it. [and] The grand concern, of suffering and of dying people.
- "The divine compassions declar'd and magnified .. upon the sorrowful occasion of a miserable woman present, under sentence of death .. by Benjamin Colman .. 1715."--47, [1] p. at end, with separate title page (on leaf I6).
- Reproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford).
- Cited in:
- Evans, 1764
- Holmes, T.J. Cotton Mather, 367
- English Short Title Catalog, W2555.
- OCLC:
- 510857353
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