YEAR.

1636 Cont.

1637.

1638.

1639.

1640.

WORKS PUBLISHED.

Thomas Hooker (1586-1647): The Soul's Implantation.
The Soul's Humiliation.
Thomas Morton: New English Canaan. [London? or
Amsterdam?]

William Hooke: New England's Tears for Old England's Fears.

William Pierce: An Almanac for 1639; calculated for

New England.1

Freeman's Oath.1

Richard Mather, John Eliot and other "Chief Divines in the Country": The Whole Book of Psalms Faithfully Translated into English Metre. [The Bay Psalm Book.2]

1 Printed by Daye; the "Oath" was the first product of the press in the United States. "An almanac was annually printed at Cambridge... till near the close of the 17th century."

2 First English book printed in America.

YEAR.

1640 Cont.

1641.

WORKS PUBLISHED.

John Cotton: The Way of Life, in Four Treatises. [London.]

Thomas Shepard: The Sincere Convert, Discovering the Paucity of True Believers and the Great Difficulty of Saving Conversion. [London.]

Nathaniel Ward (Compiler): The Body of Liberties. [Cambridge, Mass.j1

An Abstract of the Laws of New England. [London.] A Catechism Agreed upon by the Elders at the Desire of the General Court. [Cambridge, Mass.]

1642.

John Cotton: A Brief Exposition of the Book of Canticles.
Thomas Lechford: Plain Dealing; or, News from New
England.

Theses of the First Graduates of Harvard College.

1643.

Richard Mather: Church Government and Church Covenant.

Roger Williams: An Help to the Language of the Natives
in New England (verse and prose).

New England's First Fruits. In Respect first of the
Indians, Second, of the Progress of Learning in the
College at Cambridge. [London.]

1 Probably distributed in manuscript.

YEAR.

WORKS PUBLISHED.

1644. Richard Mather: The True Use of Synods. Thomas Welde: A Short History of the Rise, Reign, and Ruin of the Antinomians, Familists, and Libertines that infested the Churches of New England. Roger Williams: Queries of Highest Consideration. The Bloody Tenet of Persecution for Cause of Conscience.

1645.

1646.

1647.

John Cotton: The Way of the Churches of Christ in
New England.

Thomas Shepard: The Sound Believer.

Roger Williams: Christening makes not Christians.
[Governor Winthrop]: A Declaration of Passages and
Proceedings Between the English and the Narra-
gansetts.

Peter Bulkeley: The Gospel Covenant.

Cambridge Synod: Concerning the Power of Magistrates
and Synods.

John Cotton: Milk for the Spiritual Nourishment of
Boston Babes in Either England.1

Samuel Gorton: Simplicitie's Defence against Seven-
headed Policy.

Edward Winslow: Hypocrisie Unmasked. . . . Where-
unto is Added a Brief Narration . of the True
Grounds or Cause of the First Planting of New
England, the Precedents of their Churches in the
Way and Worship of God.

John Cotton: The Grounds and Ends of the Baptism of the Children of the Faithful.

Singing of Psalms a Gospel Ordinance. [Thomas Shepard?]: The Day Breaking if not the Sun Rising of the Gospel with the Indians in New England.

[Nathaniel Ward]: The Simple Cobbler of Agawam. By "Theodore de la Guard." 2

Edward Winslow; New England's Salamander.

1 London; printed at Cambridge, Mass., in 1656.
2 Three editions in 1647.