Heaven's alarm to the world., Or, A sermon, wherein is shewed, that fearful sights and signs in heaven, are the presages of great calamities at hand. : Preached at the lecture of Boston in New-England; January, 20. 1680. / By Increase Mather.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mather, Increase, 1639-1723 2678

Contributor:

Sewall, Samuel, 1652-1730, bookseller.

Browning, Joseph, -1691, bookseller.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Comets--Religious aspects--83541.

Comets.

Genre:

Sermons -- 1682.

Physical Description:

[8], 38, [2], 32 p. ; 15 cm. (8vo)

Edition:

The second impression. [Three lines from Revelation]

Other Title:

Sermon wherein is shewed that fearful sights and signs in heaven are the presages of great calamities at hand

Place of Publication:

Boston, in New-England, : Printed for Samuel Sewall. And are to be sold by Joseph Browning at the corner of the Prison-Lane next the town-house., 1682.

Notes:

Also issued as part of: Mather, Increase. Kometographia. Or A discourse concerning comets ... Boston, 1683 (Evans 352).

Two states of the imprint noted. The first (Bristol B59; Shipton & Mooney 39220) reads 'by John Browning'; in the second (Evans 320) this is corrected to 'by Joseph Browning.'

"The latter sign discoursed of, in a sermon preached ... August, 31. 1682 ... by Increase Mather ..."--[2], 32 p. at end, has separate title page and separate Evans number (321), but was apparently not issued separately. Cf. ESTC (BL)

Signatures: A-E⁸.

Local Notes:

Bound with other works.

HSP in LCP.

HSP copy has imprint in 2nd state with "by Joseph Browning" on t.p.

Cited in:

Evans 320

Evans 321

Bristol B59

Shipton & Mooney, 39220

Holmes, T.J. Increase Mather, 62-B

Wing (2nd ed.) M1218

Wing (2nd ed.) M1219

ESTC (BL) W019680

Contains:

Mather, Increase, 1639-1723. Latter sign discoursed of.