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Rh Opinions on Witchcraft and Kindred Subjects. 2 vols. Boston, 1867. [An enlargement of the preceding.]

—Salem Witchcraft and Cotton Mather. Reprinted from Hist. Mag. Sept., 1869. [A reply to Poole's criticism.]

Walker, Williston. The Services of the Mathers in New England Religious Development. Amer. Soc. Church History. V.

Wendell, B. Cotton Mather. The Puritan Priest. 1891. [The best life.]

IX. John Wise (1652-1725)

A. Separate Works

(1) Instructions for the Emigrants from Essex County, Mass. to South Carolina. 1697. New Eng. Hist, and Gen. Reg., XXX, 64. (2) A Narrative of an Expedition against Quebec. Mass. Hist. Soc. Proceedings. Nov. 1901. Reprinted, with introd. by Sam. A. Green. Cambridge, 1902. (3) The Churches Quarrel Espoused: or, A Reply in Satyre, to certain Proposals Made, in Answer to this Question, What further steps are to be taken, that the Councils may have due Constitution and Efficacy in Supporting, Preserving, and Well-Ordering the Interest of the Churches in the Country? [Commonly given as Boston, 1710. Evans lists it as New York, 1713.] Boston, 1715, 1745, 1772. Re-issued with no. 4, and with introd. by Rev. J. S. Clark. Boston, 1860. (4) A Vindication of the Government of New England Churches. Drawn from Antiquity; the Light of Nature; Holy Scripture; its Noble Nature; and from the Dignity Divine Providence has put upon it. With a Testimony to the order of the Gospel, in the Churches of New-England: left in the hands of the Churches; by the Two most aged Ministers of the Gospel yet surviving in the Countrey. [John Higginson, Wm. Hubbard.] Boston, 1717, 1772. [Two editions in latter year]. Re-issued with no. 3, Boston, 1860. A portion reprinted in Old South Leaflets, no. 165, vol. 7. (5) A Friendly check, from a kind relation. To the chief cannoneer. Founded on a late information, dated N. E. castle-William, 1720, 21. Boston, 1721. [Signed, Amicus Patriae, and ascribed to Wise by Evans, Amer. Bib.] (6) A Word of Comfort to a Melancholy Country. Or the Bank of Credit. . . fairly defended by a Discovery of the Great Benefit, accruing by it to the whole Province, etc. Humbly dedicated to the Merchants in Boston. Boston, 1721. [Signed, Amicus Patriae, and ascribed to Wise by Sibley and Evans. "A well-managed and witty plea for paper money and 'inflation.'"] (7) [Prayer for a Succession and Full Supply of Gospel Ministers. Sermon at Dover, 28 Oct., 1730. Boston 1731. Listed by Dexter. Doubtful. If by Wise the date is wrong.]

B. Biography and Criticism

Clark, Rev. J. S. Introd. to ed. issued by Cong. Board of Pub. Boston, 1860.

Dexter, Henry M. Congregationalism ... as seen in its Literature. 1880.

Sibley, J. L. Harvard Graduates. II, 441.

Tyler, M. C. History of American Literature during the Colonial Period. 1904.

Walker, Williston. History of the Cong. Churches in the U. S. 1894.

White, John. The Gospel treasure in earthen vessels. A funeral sermon on the death of Rev. John Wise; preached 11th April, 1725. [With A character of the Reverend John Wise. By Another Hand.] Boston, 1725.