A letter to a friend in the country, attempting a solution of the scruples and objections of conscientious or religious nature, commonly made against the new way of receiving the small-pox. By a minister in Boston. [Eight lines of Scripture quotations]
Cooper, William,1694-1743.
Mather, Cotton,1663-1728.
Boston : Printed by S. Kneeland, for S. Gerrish, at his shop in Corn-hill,
MDCCXXI. [1721]
The Boston, 1730 edition, published under the title "Reply to the objections made against taking the small pox .." has a preface signed by Cooper, in which he acknowledges his authorship. Erroneously attributed to Cotton Mather.
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