The Flourish of the Annual Spring, Improved in a Sermon Preached at the Thursday Lecture in Boston, May 3. 1739. By Mather Byles, D.D. Pastor of a Church in Boston. [Three Lines From Numbers]. The Second Edition

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Library of Congress

W023139

Half-title: Dr. Byles's sermon on the spring of the year. Running title: Meditations on the spring of the year. "An hymn for the spring. The bloom of life fading in a happy death."--p. 24-25. Written in 1727, occasioned by the sudden deaths of Samuel Hirst, Thomas Lewis and Simon Bradstreet. First published as the work of "a very hopeful young scholar" in: Prince, Thomas. Morning healt no security against the sudden arrest of death, 2nd ed. Boston, 1727. The poem appears under subtitle in Byles' Poems on several occasions, Boston, 1744.

Boston, New-England: Re-printed by Thomas and John Fleet, at the Heart and Crown in Cornhill, 1769. 25, [3]p.; 8°