A letter from a gentleman in the country to his friend in the city, touching Sir William Petty's posthumous treatise entituled, Verbum sapienti, or, The method of raising taxes in the most equal manner, &c.

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A letter from a gentleman in the country to his friend in the city, touching Sir William Petty's posthumous treatise entituled, Verbum sapienti, or, The method of raising taxes in the most equal manner, &c.
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H. J., Gentleman in the country.
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London :: Printed by G.C. for William Miller ...,
1691.
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Petty, William, -- Sir, 1623-1687. -- Verbum Sapienti.
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Books Printed for and Sold by William Miller at the Acorn in St. Paul's Church-yard, where Gentlemen, and others, may be furnished with most sorts of Acts of Parliament, Kings, Lord Chancellors, Lord Keepers, and Speakers Speeches, and other sorts of Speeches, and State∣matters; As also Books of Divinity, Church Government, Humanity, Sermons on most Occasions, &c. 1690.

Books in Folio.

1. ASsemblies Annotations in two Volumes 2. Ainsworth's Annotations. 3. Book of Martyrs in Three Volumes. 4. Cassandra, a Romance. 5. Burton's Anatomy of Melancholly. 6. Jones's Reports. 7. Perkins's Works, Three Vo∣lumes. 8. Prinne's History of King John, &c. 9. Bishop Wilkins's Essay to∣wards

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a real Character. 10. Ward on Matthew. 11. Burgess on Corinthians. 12. Baines on Ephesians. 13. Cradock's Harmony of the Four Evangelists. 14. Cu∣ria Politiae. 15. Elton on the Collossians. 16. Love and Revenge, a Romance. 17. Extravagant Shepherd, the Anti-Romance. 18. Gauden of the Church. 19. Heywood's Hierarchy of Angels 20. Hakewell's Apology. 21. Hart's Diet for the Diseased. 22. Jones on the Hebrews. 23. Johnson's Three Plays. 24. Kellet on the Sacrament. 25. Lloyd's Memoirs. 26. Leggon's History of the Barbadoes. 27. Leigh's Critical Sacra. 28. Matchiave's Works. 29. Monk's Military and Politick Observations. 30. Orlando furioso. 31. Philip ▪de Comine's History. 32. Pharomon, a Romance. 33. Pembles's Works. 34. Pareus on the Revelations. 35. Ramsey's Astrology. 36. Rouse's Works. 37. Royal Chy∣mistry. 38. Spanish Bawd. 39. Bishop Smith's Sermon.

In Quarto.

1 Barclay's Argines, in English with Cuts▪ 2 Ball against Canne of Separati∣on. 3 Holy History. 4 Jackson's Concordance to the Bible. 5 Sir Henry Vane's retired Man's Meditations. 6 Weeme's Works in three Volumes. 7 Ad∣ventures in Love. 8 Arreignment of the whole Creature. 9 Allain's Chain of Scripture Chronology. 10 Behmon's Pieces▪ 11 Bolton's Works in two Vo∣lumes. 12 Baxter's Works. 13 Cooper's Heaven Opened. 14—His Life and Death. 15 Clark's Life of William the Conqueror. 16 Cradock's Know∣ledge and practice. 17 Carpenter's pragmatical Jesuit, a Comedy. 18 Dod on the Commandments. 19—On the Lord's prayer. 20 Digges's Tectonicon. 21 Extravagant Shepherd, a Comedy. 22 Ghost, or the Woman wears the Breeches. 23 Heywood's Life of Edward VI. 24—Life of Henry IV. 25▪ Hook∣er's Soul's preparation for Christ. 26—Soul's Humiliation. 27—His Ex∣altation. 28 History of King Authur. 29 History of precious Stones. 30 Kil∣ligrew's Conspiracy, a Tragedy. 31 Leigh's Saints Rest. 32 Norwood of Forti∣fication. 33 Squier on the Thessalonians. 34 Struther's King David's Choice. 35 Sir Henry Vane's Meditations. 36 Voyage of the wandring Knight. 37 Me∣dice cura teipsum, or the Apothecaries plea against Doctor Christopher Merret. 38 Bagshaw's Doctrine of Free Grace. 39—His Discourse about Christ and Anti-Christ. 40—His great Question concerning Things indifferent in Religi∣ous Worship. 41—Of God's Decrees against Pierce. 42 A Letter of Advice concerning Marriage. By A. B.

In Octavo.

☞ 1 Lately published some Instructions in the Art of Grammar, writ to Assist a young Gentleman in the speedy Understanding of the Latin Tongue.

☞ 2 There is now in the Press, and will be speedily published, the Greek and Roman History, Illustrated by Coins and Medals, representing their Religions, Rites▪ Manners, Customs, Games, and Feasts; Together with a Succinct Account of their Emperors and Families, in two Parts, necessary for the Introduction of Youth into the Knowledge of Antiquity, by O. W.

3 Vinnes's Twenty Sermons on the Sacrament. 4 Arcanum of Astrology. 5 Bo∣telar's Art of War▪ 6 Bagshaw's Rights of the Crown. 7 Bunworth of the French Disease. 8 Continuation of Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia. * Dent on the Re∣velation. 9—Sermon of Repentance. 10 Downame's Abstract. 11 Enchiri∣on of Fortification. 12 Epicurus's Morals. 13 Howe's Marks of Salvation.

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☞ 14 Wall's Baptism Anatomized, being propounded in Five Queries? 1. What Water Baptism is? 2. What is the end for which it was Instituted? 3. What giveth right to it? 4. Who are the true Administraters of it? 5. Whether is be Lawful for a Man to Baptise himself, wherein the right that the Infants of Believers have to Water Baptism is vindicated; The duty of Believing Parents in that matter asserted, and that by the contrary Tenet and Practice they ought themselves to be excluded from the Lords Supper, is plainly and fully proved.

☞ 15 The Christians daily Walk, in holy Security and Peace. Being an Answer to these Questions; 1. How a Man may do each pre ent days work with Christian Cheerfulness? 2. How to bear each present days Cross with Christian Pa∣tience? Containing familiar Directions: 1. How to walk with God in the Course of a Man's Life: 2. How to be Upright in the said walking: 3. How to Live without taking Care or Thought in any thing: 4. How to get and keep true peace with God; wherein manifold Helps to prevent and remove damnable Presum∣ption; also to quiet and ease distressed Consciences. By Hen. Scudder.

16 Hume's steadfast Christian. 17 Juan de Luar, Spanish and English Gram∣mar. 18 Gouge's Word to Saints, and Word to Sinners. 19—Catechism. 20 Gar∣land of Good-will. 21 Government of the Tongue. 22 Knolly's Rudiments of the Hebrew Grammar. 23 Latine's Apprentice made Free-man. 24 Love's Do∣minion. 25 Lucius Florus in English. 26 Merry Drollery. 27 Natural and ar∣tificial Conclusions. 28 Nomenclatura, Greek, Latin, and English. 29▪ Shake∣speer's Rape of Lucreece. 30 Shepheard's Office of Constables. 31 Sharp's Mid∣vvisry. 32 Ward, of Wit, Wisdom, and Folly, describing the Nature▪ Use, and A∣buse of the Tongue and Speech. 33 Templum Musicum: Or, the Musical Synopsis. 34 Skelton's Tachugraphia, in Latin. 35 Emblems Divine, Moral▪ Natural and Historical, expressed in Sculptures, and applied to the several Ages, Occasions, and Conditions of Men. By a Person of Quality.

In Twelves.

1 Aristotle's Art of Rhetorick. 2 Abernetskie's Duty of a Christian. 3 Cour∣tior's Art. 4 Abbot's young Man's Warning piece. 5 Andrew's pattern of Cate∣chitical Doctrine. 6 A, B, C. in Welsh. 7 Ʋsher's Catechisms in Welsh. 8 De∣spane on the Lord's Prayer, in Welsh. 9 Sincere Convert, in Welsh. 10 Beller∣minus Ennervatus. 11 Boulton's Helps to Humiliation. 12—His devout Pray∣ers. 13 St. Barnard's Meditations. 14 Bradshaw and Hildersham on the Sacra∣ment. 15 Old Bacon of Life and Death. 16 Cotton's none but Christ. 17 Ca∣pell of Temptation. 18 Coral and Steel their Virtue. 19 Doctrine of the Bible. 20 Dent's Path-way to Heaven. 21 David's Blessed Man. 22—Sing. 23—Re∣pentance. 24 Duty of every one that intends to be saved. 25 Complete English and French Cook. 26 Fettiplace's Christ Monitor. 27—His holy Exercises of heavenly Graces. 28—Sinners Tears. 29 Granada of Prayer and Meditation. 30 Garden of Spiritual Flowers. 31 Golden Mean. 32 Garbut on the Resurre∣ction. 33 Henshaw's Meditations. 34 Holy Sinner. 35 Joseph and his Mistriss, by Smith. 36 Mothers Legacy to her Child. 37 Moral practice of the Jesuits. 38 Norden's poor Man's Rest. 39—Pensive Man's practice. 40 Oxford Jests. 41 Practice of the Faithful. 42 Preston on the Sacrament. 43—Doctrine of Saints Informity. 44 Sibbe's Saints Conflict. 45—Fountain Sealed. 46—Spiritual Man's Aim. 47 Saltemarsh of Free Grace. 48 Smith's practice of Physick. 49 Spurstow's Meditations. 50 The Third part of the Bible. 51 Understanding Christians Duty. 52 Jeffery's New Year's Gift.

FINIS.

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