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BISHOP, GEORGE. New-England Judged, by the Spirit of the Lord . . . Containing a Brief Relation of the Sufferings of the People call'd Quakers in New-England. . . Also, An Answer to Cotton Mather's Abuses of the said People in his late History of New-England [By John Whiting]. [8], [1], 498; 212, [12] pages. 8vo, contemporary calf, disbound, lacks rear cover, ink library notation on backstrip; heavily browned, general title chipped; library blindstamp to the first leaf of the preface and the terminal index leaf. London: T. Sowle, 1703
The first combined edition of both parts of Bishop's work and the first edition to include Whiting's response to Mather's Magnalia Christi Americana. "Most exhaustive contemporary indictment of God-fearing Puritans driven by insensate religious fervor to sickening brutalities against other religious fanatics who dared to differ from themselves. Witch-hunting was bad; this was worse"--Howes B481; Sabin 5631; Alden 703/16.
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