The church-membership of children, and their right to baptisme ...

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Title: The church-membership of children, and their right to baptisme ...
Creator: Shepard, Thomas, 1605-1649, author
Contributor: Wilson, John, 1588-1667.
Green, Samuel, 1615-1702, printer.
Published / Created: 1663.
Publication Place: Cambridge [Mass.] and United States Massachusetts Cambridge
Publisher: Printed by Samuel Green
Description: BEIN Z84 55: Imperfect: Bled, with loss of most title page autograph. Autograph on front free endpaper recto: Crescentius Matherus. Manuscript table of contents on front free endpaper recto. Bookplate: Yale College Library, from the estate of Mr. George Brinley, 1879. Autograph on title page: [Crescentius Matherus?]. Manuscript notes in text. Number 8 of 17 works bound together, formerly with binder's title: Ecclesiastical tracts.
BEIN Pequot Z96: Loss of manuscript autograph on title page due to trimming. Number 3 of 6 titles bound together in brown, blind tooled leather binding with manuscript call number label on spine.
Includes four poems in Latin and English, pages [21-22], 1st count; two are signed by John Wilson.
Signatures: A-F⁴.
Errata at foot of page 26.
Extent: [22], 26 pages ; 19 cm (4to)
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Early works to 1800
Annotations (Provenance) 17th century
Subject (Geographic): Massachusetts
Subject (Topic): Baptism
Congregational churches
Infant baptism
Children
Religious life
Church membership
Baptism and church membership
Subjects: Baptism > Congregational churches > Early works to 1800
Infant baptism > Early works to 1800
Children > Religious life > Early works to 1800
Church membership > Massachusetts > Early works to 1800
Baptism and church membership > Early works to 1800
17th century
Massachusetts. Cambridge. 1663
Mather, Increase, 1639-1723 > Autograph
Brinley, George, 1817-1875 > Ownership

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