Cain's lamentations over Abel : in six books / by Rowland Cotton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cotton, Rowland.

Series:

Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926.

Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. O.T--History of Biblical events--Fiction.

Bible.

Cain (Biblical figure)--Fiction--Early works to 1800.

Cain.

Abel (Biblical figure)--Fiction--Early works to 1800.

Abel.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (239 p., [1] leaf of plates ) ill. ;

Edition:

3rd ed.

Other Title:

Cain's lamentations over Abel

Place of Publication:

New York : Printed by Wayland and Davis for the author, 1795.

Contents:

book 1. His astonishment at Abel's death, his melancholy relation of the event to Adam and Eve, and his sorrowful separation from his parents when he became a fugitive exile

Book 2. His conviction and penitence in his solitary retirement, with Satan's appearing to him

Book 3. The appearance of Abel unto him as a messenger from Heaven, and their discourse

Book 4. His relfections on Abel's descension and ascension to Heaven and the consolation it produced to his soul

Book 5. The appearance and discourse of Adam with him from Heaven, Adam's departure, his second apearance to him as the messenger of glad tidings, with Cain's melancholy reflections and doubts in the interval

Book 6. His patient waiting the will of God to depart from this spot of solitude and earnest desire to see his mother before she goes to his father and brother, with the death of Eve in the presence of Cain.

Notes:

Page numbers 73-84 omitted from paging, letter G omitted from register; the text, however, is complete.

Reproduction of original from Huntington Library.

Sabin no. 17106.

Cited in:

RLIN, CTRG03-B212

OCLC:

277273638