 | Massachusetts Historical Society. Library - 1811 - 124 pages
...London, 1648. , Abstract of laws and gov. published by William Aspinwall, 4. London, 1655. •— , Discourse about civil government in a new plantation, whose design is religion, 4. Cam. England, 1663. — , Treatise on the covenant of grace, 12. Lon. 1671. [COTTON, JOHN, Plymouth,]... | |
 | Jeremy Belknap - 1831 - 546 pages
...Marmaduke Johnson, entitled " A Discourse about Civil Government in a new Plantation whose Designe is Religion, Written many years since. By that Reverend...Plantation, for General Direction and Information." The object of it seems to be, " to prove the expediency and necessity of entrusting free Burgesses... | |
 | Jeremy Belknap - 1831 - 566 pages
...Discourse about Civil Government in a new Plantation whose Designe is Religion, Written many years sinrr. By that Reverend and Worthy Minister of the Gospel,...Plantation, for General Direction and Information." The objectof it seems to be, '' to prove the expediency and necessity of entrusting free Burgesses... | |
 | William Allen - 1832 - 820 pages
...the publication of his writings, all in 1634; an apologelical reply to the answer of W. Best, 1 636; a discourse about civil government in a new plantation, whose design is religion ; a profession of his faith made at his admission into one of the churches of New England, 1642; the... | |
 | James Luce Kingsley - 1838 - 128 pages
...shores of the New Haven bay. NOTE E. REFERENCE is here made to a treatise by Mr. Davenport, entitled, " A discourse about civil government in a new plantation, whose design is religion,"—" in the title page whereof," says Mather,* " the name of Mr. Cotton, is, by mistake, put for that of... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1840 - 588 pages
...law of limiting the right of political suffrage to the members of the churches, Mr. Bacon quotes from a " Discourse about Civil Government, in a New Plantation, whose Design is Religion," attributed to Mr. Davenport. The danger apprehended from the absence of any such law of limitation,... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1840 - 584 pages
...law of limiting the right of political suffrage to the members of the churches, Mr. Bacon quotes from a "Discourse about Civil Government, in a New Plantation, whose Design is Religion," attributed to Mr. Davenport. The danger apprehended from the absence of any such law of limitation,... | |
 | 1846 - 318 pages
...lost at sea on its way to the press. See a good abstract in the second volume of Hanbury'a Memorials. A Discourse about Civil Government in a New Plantation whose design is Religion. Cambridge, 1673. Quarto, This is the Tract erroneously bearing the name of John Cotton on the title-pageHe... | |
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A | Discourse | about | Civil Government | in a | New Plantation| Whose Design is | Religion. Written many years since, | By that Reverend and Worthy Minister of the Gospel, | John Cotton BD |and now Published by some Undertakers of | a new Plantation,... 
