The power of religion on the mind, in retirement, affliction and at the approach of death
Subtitle: exemplified in the testimonies and experience of persons distinguished by their greatness, learning or virtue.
Contributors: Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.
Edition: 7th ed., corrected and much enlarged.
Publisher: Printed by Isaac Collins
Published: 1795
Place of publication: Trenton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
Subjects: Christian biography; Christian life; Theater -- Moral and ethical aspects; Plague -- England -- London
Notes: Early American imprint identified in "Evans' American bibliography", no. 29133.

Includes: "Appendix : containing and account of the plague in London; and some extracts from the writings of pious and eminent men, against the entertainments of the stage, and other vain amusements" p. 173-220. Account of the plague taken from Defoe's Journal of the plague year.

Library copy in original binding (brown leather ; short title at top of spine in gold lettering (faded): POWER OF RELIGION on red leather with gold rule at top and bottom of spine title); some torn pages, last circulated Feb. 17, 1997, retained for Rare Books in June 2006.