John Cotton. The Way of Life. Or, God’s Way and Course, In Bringing the Soule Into, Keeping it in, and Carrying it on, in the Ways of Life and Peace. Laid Down in Four Several Treatises on Four Texts of Scripture. Viz. The Pouring out of the Spirit, on Zach. 12:10,11, & etc.; Sins Deadly Wound, on Acts 2:37; The Christians Charge, on prov. 4:23.; The Life of Faith, on Gal. 2: 19,20. London 1641. 481 pages. Xerox copy of the 1641 printing. Two pages printed side by side on one side of each leaf. Bound in black cloth with the title “The Way Of Life” in gilt on spine. Oblong. 11-1/4 x 8-1/2 inches. Bound by Heckman Bindery, Inc., N. Manchester, Indiana. 2000. Note in pencil on the rear end page. Very good condition.

John Cotton (1584-1652) clergyman in England and the American colonies, and by most accounts was the preeminent minister and theologian of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.