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Table of contents :
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
NOTE ON THE TEXT
THE PREFACE
CHAPTER ONE: ESSAYS TO DO GOOD
CHAPTER TWO: THE DUTY TO ONESELF
CHAPTER THREE: RELATIVE TO HOME AND NEIGHBORHOOD
CHAPTER FOUR: MINISTERS
CHAPTER FIVE: SCHOOLMASTERS
CHAPTER SIX: CHURCHES
CHAPTER SEVEN: MAGISTRATES
CHAPTER EIGHT: PHYSICIANS
CHAPTER NINE: RICH MEN
CHAPTER TEN: OFFICIALS AND LAWYERS
CHAPTER ELEVEN: REFORMING SOCIETIES
CHAPTER TWELVE: DESIDERATA
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: THE CONCLUSION
AN APPENDIX
ADVERTISEMENT
NOTES
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THE JOHN HARVARD LIBRARY BERNARD BAILYN Editor-in-Chief

THE JOHN HARVARD LIBRARY

BONIFACIUS AN ESSAY upon the GOOD BY

Cotton Mather

Edited with an Introduction by

DAVID LEVIN

T H E B E L K N A P PRESS OF H A R V A R D UNIVERSITY CAMBRIDGE,

PRESS

MASSACHUSETTS

19 66

© Copyright 1966 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College All rights reserved Distributed in Great Britain by Oxford University Press, London Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 66-14448 Printed in the United States of America

CONTENTS INTRODUCTION B Y DAVID LEVIN

vii

NOTE ON T H E TEXT

XXIX

BONIFACIUS:

A N

ESSAY

U P O N

T H E

THE PREFACE

G O O D 3

CHAPTER ONE: E S S A Y S TO D o

GOOD

17

CHAPTER T W O : T H E D U T Y TO O N E S E L F CHAPTER THREE: R E L A T I V E TO H O M E

AND

NEIGHBORHOOD CHAPTER FOUR:

41

MINISTERS

CHAPTER FIVE:

35

69

SCHOOLMASTERS

83

CHAPTER SIX: C H U R C H E S

88

CHAPTER SEVEN:

91

MAGISTRATES

CHAPTER EIGHT: PHYSICIANS CHAPTER NINE: CHAPTER TEN:

RLCH M E N

98 107

O F F I C I A L S AND L A W Y E R S

120

CHAPTER ELEVEN: R E F O R M I N G SOCIETIES

132

CHAPTER T W E L V E :

138

DESIDERATA

CHAPTER THIRTEEN:

THE

CONCLUSION

143

APPENDIX: E F F O R T S TO C O N V E R T THE INDIANS

153

ADVERTISEMENT:

159

NOTES

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