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Two questions, : Viz. I. Whether an account of the work of grace is to be required of those that are admitted to full communion in the church? II. Whether the whole church is to be judge thereof? Judiciously answered. / By Mr. Thomas Shepard, sometimes a famous pastor of the church of Cambridge, in New-England. [Two lines of Scripture from Heb. 13.7].

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Shepard, Thomas, 1605-1649
Published
Boston in N.E. : Printed and sold by Bartholomew Green, and John Allen, 1697.
Physical Description
15 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 15 cm (12mo)
Additional Creators
Allin, John, 1596-1671, Green, Bartholomew, 1667-1732, Allen, John, 1660?-1727?, Andrews, John, active 1803, Calder, William, and Zinman, Michael
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Signatures: A-B⁴ (B4 verso blank).
Reprinted, with new prefatory lines on p. 3-4 and a new concluding paragraph on p. 15, from John Allin and Thomas Shepard, A defence of the answer made unto the nine questions or positions sent from New-England, against the reply thereto by ... Mr. John Ball, London, 1648, p. 188-195.
Concludes on p. 15: "What the sentiments of that excellent man, Mr. Jonathan Mitchel, Mr. Shepards immediate successor, were, concerning the controverted questions, with his argumentations about them, is to be seen in the description of his life, now in the press. Finis."
Editorial additions tentatively attributed to Cotton Mather, who is likely to have had this work printed while he was finishing Ecclesiastes, the biography of Jonathan Mitchel advertised in the final paragraph of the text.
Library Company copy from the Michael Zinman Collection of Early American Imprints; bound fifteenth in a volume of 21 early tracts with "Wm Calder" and "John Andrews
NEH-Readex: not in Readex; not at AAS.
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Reviewed/Cited In
Evans, C. American bibliography, 814
Wing (CD-ROM) S3149
English short title catalogue, R184070
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