Bonifacius: An Essay upon the Good [Reprint 2014 ed.] 9780674180628, 9780674180604
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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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