The Holy Bible it self, in some of its editions hath been affronted, with scandalous errors of the press-work; and in one of them, they so printed those words, Psal. 119. 161. Printers have persecuted me. The author of this church history ha's all the reason in the world then to be patient, tho' his work, be depraved with many errors of the press-work. The common excuse in such cases is, the distance of the author from the press; here there was the distance of a thousand leagues. Tho' the errata are mostly, but literals; and there are few, but what an intelligent, and charitable reader, would correct without any direction from the author; yet it was thought fit here, to offer a collection of them; (omitting the false-pointings, which are more numerous, and less important.) ...
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Author / Creator: | Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728. |
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Imprint: | [Boston, Mass. : s.n., 1702] |
Description: | 2 leaves ; 30 cm (folio) |
Language: | English |
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Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
Local Note: | Library Company copy bound with Mather's Magnalia Christi Americana (London 1702). Library Company copy from the Michael Zinman Collection of Early American Imprints. NEH-Readex: not in Readex; not at AAS. |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10359004 |