The Library
1774 works catalogued century by century, from the literature the Bible was written among to the present — each with a note on what it is, why it lasted, and where to read it.
1601–1700
7 works
1643
English
Roger Williams · c. 1603–1683
A phrasebook of Narragansett with observations on their hospitality, government, and religion, and verses observing that the English are often the worse people.
1644
English
Roger Williams · c. 1603–1683
An argument for a wall of separation between the garden of the church and the wilderness of the world, and for liberty of conscience for pagans, Jews, and Turks alike.
New Testament 1661; complete 1663
Massachusett
Mamusse Wunneetupanatamwe Up-Biblum God
John Eliot with Cockenoe, Job Nesutan, and James Printer · 1604–1690
The whole Bible translated into an Algonquian language and printed at Cambridge, Massachusetts, by a team in which the Native collaborators did much of the work.
1671
English
John Eliot · 1604–1690
Model conversations for Native preachers to use with their own relatives, written to be practised — and giving the sceptical side arguments of real force.
18 February 1688
English
Francis Daniel Pastorius and the Germantown Quakers
Four Quakers ask what right anyone has to buy and keep men as slaves, and whether the golden rule is not as binding for black people as for white.
1693
English
William Penn · 1644–1718
Maxims on marriage, money, government, and death, written in a period of political disgrace by the founder of Pennsylvania.
1693
English
George Keith · c. 1638–1716
An argument that Friends should neither buy nor keep enslaved people, and should set free those they hold after a term of service.
7 of 1774 works