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Hist. Soc. Proc. Sec. Series, 16, 274-284. Assigned by the ed. to 1636 [?], and believed to be a copy of Moses his Judicials. (3) A Letter from Mr Cotton to Lord Say and Seal in the Year 1636. Printed in Hutchinson, Hist. Mass. Bay, I, 496-501. (4) An Abstract of the Lawes of New England as they are now established. London, 1641, 1655. Reprinted in Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll. First Series, v, 173; in Force Tracts, III, 1844; and by the Prince Soc. 1865. [See no. 2 above.] (5) A coppy of a letter of Mr Cotton of Boston in New England, sent in answer of certaine objections made against the discipline and orders there. [London], 1641. (6) Gods Mercie mixed with his Justice: or, his peoples deliverance in time of danger laid open in severall sermons. London, 1641. [See no. 44.] (7) The Way of Life. Or, Gods way and course, in bringing the Soule into . . . the wayes of life and peace. London, 1641. In the Prince Library Cat. the title is given thus: The Way of Life. In foure Treatises. The pouring out of the Spirit, Sins deadly wound, The Christians Charge, the life of Faith. London, 1641. (8) A Brief Exposition of the whole Book of Canticles . . . a Work very usefull and seasonable to every Christian: but especially such as endeavour and thirst after the setling of Church and State according to the Rule and Pattern of the Word of God, etc. London, 1642, 1648, 1655. (9) The Churches Resurrection, or the Opening of The Fift and sixt verses of the 20th Chap, of the Revelation. London, 1642. (10) The Doctrine of the Church, to which are committed the Keyes of the Kingdome of Heaven. [London], 1642. Second ed. same year. Third ed. "according to a more exact copy . . . and some few proofes and wordes added, etc. " London, 1643. Another form, Questions and Answers upon Church Government, in a Treatise of Faith, etc., [?, 1713?] in Yale Univ. Lib. gives date, "begun 25. 11 M. 1634." (11) A Modest and Cleare Answer to Mr. Balls Discourse on set formes of Prayer. London, [1642.] (12) The Powring out of the Seven Vials; or an Exposition of the 16. Chapter of the Revelation, . . . with an Application of it to our Times, etc. [London] 1642, 1645. (13) The True Constitution of a particular visible Church proved by Scripture, etc. London, 1642. (14) Discourse about civil government in a new plantation whose design is Religion. [London], 1643. Re-issued with a slightly different title. Cambridge, 1663. [Assigned to J. Davenport by C. Mather. Cotton's name is on the title page.] (15) A Letter ... to Mr Williams . . . Wherein is shewed, That those ought to be received into the Church who are Godly, though they doe not see, nor expressly bewaile all the pollutions in Church-fellowship, Ministery, Worship, Government. London, 1643. Reprinted, with introd. by R. A. Guild, in Narr. Club. Pub. 1, 287-311. (16) The Keyes of the Kingdom of Heaven, and Power thereof, according to the Word of God . . . tending to reconcile some present differences about Discipline, etc. London, 1644. Re-issued the same year, [minor variations in the title-page]. Boston, 1852. (17) Sixteene questions . . . propounded unto Mr John Cotton, of Boston in New England. Together with his Answers to each Question. London, 1644. [See no. 20.] (18) The Covenant of Gods free grace most sweetly unfolded, etc. London, 1645. (19) The Way of the Churches of Christ in New-England, or the Way of Churches walking in Brotherly equalitie, etc. London, 1645. [This and The Keyes were replied to in 1645, in a tract, Vindiciae Clavium . . . manifesting . . . the Middle-way (so called) of Independents, to be the Extreme, or By-way of the Brownists, etc.] (20) A Conference at Boston With the Elders of New-England, With The Difference between the Christian and Antichristian Church. [The latter by F. Cornwell.] London, 1646. [Another version of no. 17.] (21) The Controversie concerning liberty of conscience in matters of Religion truly stated ... by way of answer to some arguments . . . sent unto him [by Roger Williams], etc. London, 1646, 1649.