Publications of John Hancock

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Printed by John Hancock

  • Bridge, William. Bridge's remains, being VIII sermons. Viz. 1. Of mans blessedness. 2. Affections rightly placed. 3. How to walk with God in our calling? 4. Of good and bad company. 5. The carnality of professors. 6. What our work is, and how to be done? 7. Soul resignation into the hands of God. 8. The dignity and duty of Gods called ones. By that learned and judicious divine Mr. William Bridge, sometimes Fellow of Emmanuel Colledge in Cambridge, and late preacher of the word of God at Yarmouth. Designed by himself for the press, as appears by the marginal notes, except the eighth sermon, which was the last he preached, was taken exactly in short-hand, and published by his son-in-law, after they were perused by Mr. Greenhill. London: printed, and are to be sold by John Hancock Senior and Junior, at the sign of the Three Bibles in Popes head Alley in Cornhill, 1673. ESTC No. R18600. Grub Street ID 74853.

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  • Hancock, John. Rulers should be benefactors. As it was consider'd in a sermon preach'd before His Excellency Samuel Shute Esq; His Majesty's Council, and the representatives of the province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England, May 30th. 1722. Being the day for election of counsellors By John Hancock, M.A. and Pastor of the Church of Christ in Lexington. Boston in N.E.: Printed by B. Green, printer to His Excellency the governor & Council, 1722. ESTC No. W29075. Grub Street ID 339300.
  • Hancock, John. A sermon preached at the ordination of Mr. John Hancock. A.M.: in the North Precinct of Brantree [sic]; Novem. 2. 1726. By his father the Rev. Mr. John Hancock Pastor of the Church of Christ in Lexington. Boston: Printed for Thomas Hancock in Ann-Street near the drawbridge, 1726. ESTC No. W8559. Grub Street ID 357665.
  • Hancock, John. The prophet Jeremiah's resolution to get him unto great men, and to speak unto them, considered and applied: in a sermon delivered at the publick lecture in Boston, November 21. 1734. Before His Excellency the governour, and the General Court. By John Hancock, A.M. senio Pastor of the Church of Christ in Lexington. N.B. Partly for brevity sake, and partly thro' the infirmity of an old man's memory, some things were omitted in the delivery of this sermon, which are now added in the publication, tho' they are but few. Boston: Printed by S. Kneeland, printer to the Honourable House of Representatives, MDCCXXXIV. [1734]. ESTC No. W28977. Grub Street ID 339190.
  • Hancock, John. The Lord's ministers are the people's helpers. A sermon preached at the ordination of the Reverend Mr. Ebenezer Hancock, at Lexington, January 2d. 1733,4. By his Reverend father John Hancock, A.M. Pastor of the church there. [Two lines from I. Peter]. Boston: N.E.: Printed by S. Kneeland & T. Green, for T. Hancock, at the Bible & Three Crowns in Ann-Street, 1735. ESTC No. W20702. Grub Street ID 330404.
  • Hancock, John. A memorial of God's goodness. Being the substance of two sermons, preach'd in the First Church of Christ in Braintree, Sept. 16th. 1739. On compleating the first century since the gathering of it. By John Hancock, M.A. their present Pastor. Printed at the earnest desire of the hearers; in remembrace of God's mercy. Together with some marginal illustrations. [Nine lines of Scripture texts]. Boston: Printed and sold by S[.] Kneeland, & T. Green, over against the prison in Queenstreet, 1739. ESTC No. W20745. Grub Street ID 330450.
  • Hancock, John. The examiner, or Gilbert against Tennent. Containing a confutation of the Reverend Mr. Gilbert Tennent and his adherents: extracted chiefly from his own writings, and formed upon his own plan of comparing the Moravian principles, with the standard of orthodoxy, in distinct columns. Together with some strictures on the preface to the Rev. Mr. Tennent's Five sermons and appendix lately published, and subscribed by six reverend ministers of Boston. The whole being an essay towards answering three important queries, viz. 1. What is truth in the present religiou commotions in this land? 2. What is the shortest method of finding the whole truth? 3. Whether such as are given to change, ought not in conscience to make their publick retractations, according to St. Austin? The whole essay is submitted to the judgment of common sense. By Philalethes. [Five line of Scripture texts]. Boston: Printed for S. Eliot, in Cornhill, 1743. ESTC No. W32182. Grub Street ID 342655.
  • Hancock, John. A discourse upon the good work. Delivered at the monthly Tuesday lecture in Pembrook, September 7th. 1742. And now published at the earnest desire of the hearers. By John Hancock, A.M. Pastor of the First Church in Braintree. [Six lines of Scripture texts]. Boston: Printed and sold by Rogers and Fowle in Queen Street below the prison, near the town-house, 1743. ESTC No. W20212. Grub Street ID 329867.
  • Hancock, John. The danger of an unqualified ministry, represented in a sermon, preached at Ashford, in the colony of Connecticut, Sept. 7th. 1743. And now printed at the earnest desire of the hearers. By John Hancock, Pastor of the First Church in Braintree. [Four lines of Scripture texts]. Boston: Printed and sold by Rogers and Fowle in Queen Street, next to the prison, 1743. ESTC No. W34112. Grub Street ID 344715.
  • Hancock, John. An expostulatory and pacifick letter, by way of reply to the Revd Mr. Gee's letter of remarks, on the printed testimony of the late convention of pastors in Boston, against several errors and disorders in the land: address'd to the Revd Mr. Nathanael Eells their moderator. By John Hancock, Pastor of the First Church of Christ in Braintree. [Four lines of Scripture texts]. Boston: Printed and sold by Rogers and Fowle in Queen-Street, next to the prison, 1743. ESTC No. W32225. Grub Street ID 342702.
  • Hancock, John. The examiner, or Gilbert against Tennent. Containing a confutation of the Reverend Mr. Gilbert Tennent, and his adherents: extracted chiefly from his own writings, and formed upon his own plan of comparing the Moravian principles, with the standard of orthodoxy, in distinct columns. Together with some strictures on the preface to the Rev. Mr. Tennent's Five sermons and appendix lately published, and subscribed by six reverend ministers of Boston. The whole being an essay towards answering three important queries, viz. 1. What is truth in the present religiou commotions in this land? 2. What is the shortest method of finding the whole truth? 3. Whether such as are given to change, ought not in conscience to make their publick retractations, according to St. Austin? The whole essay is submitted to the judgment of common sense. By Philalethes. [Four line of Scripture texts]. [Philadelphia]: Boston, printed, 1743. Philadelphia: re-printed and sold by B. Franklin, [1743]. ESTC No. W9663. Grub Street ID 358841.
  • Hancock, John. An oration; delivered March 5, 1774, at the request of the inhabitants of the town of Boston: to commemorate the bloody tragedy of the fifth of March 1770. By the Honorable John Hancock, Esq; [Five lines in Latin from Virgil]. Boston: Printed by Edes and Gill, in Queen Street, M,DCC,LXXIV. [1774]. ESTC No. W2613. Grub Street ID 336155.
  • Hancock, John. An oration delivered March 5, 1774, at the request of the inhabitants of the town of Boston; to commemorate the bloody tragedy of the fifth of March, 1770. By the Hon. John Hancock, Esq; [Five lines in Latin from Virgil]. Newport, Rhode-Island: Reprinted and sold by S. Southwick, in Queen-Street, 1774. ESTC No. W21491. Grub Street ID 331259.
  • Hancock, John. An oration; delivered March 5, 1774, at the request of the inhabitants of the town of Boston: to commemorate the bloody tragedy of the fifth of March, 1770. By the Honorable John Hancock, Esq; [Five lines in Latin from Virgil]. New-Haven: Re-printed by Thomas and Samuel Green, M,DCC,LXXIV. [1774]. ESTC No. W21492. Grub Street ID 331260.
  • Hancock, John. An oration: delivered March 5, 1774, at the request of the inhabitants of the town of Boston; to commemorate the bloody tragedy of the fifth of March, 1770. By the Honorable John Hancock, Esquire. [Five lines in Latin from Virgil]. Philadelphia: Printed by J. Douglass M'Dougall, in Chesnut-Street, M,DCC,LXXV. [1775]. ESTC No. W2614. Grub Street ID 336165.