Fruits of retirement: or, Miscellaneous poems, moral and divine. Being contemplations, letters, &c. Written on a variety of subjects and occasions. / By Mary Mollineux, late of Liverpool, deceased. ; To which is prefixed, some account of the author. ; [Two lines from Exodus]
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- Fruits of retirement: or, Miscellaneous poems, moral and divine. Being contemplations, letters, &c. Written on a variety of subjects and occasions. / By Mary Mollineux, late of Liverpool, deceased. ; To which is prefixed, some account of the author. ; [Two lines from Exodus]
- Author
- Mollineux, Mary, 1651?-1695.
- Publication
- Philadelphia: :: Re-printed by Joseph Crukshank, in Market-Street.,
- MDCCLXXVI. [1776]
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- Mollineux, Mary, 1651?-1695.
- Poems -- 1776.
- Anthologies.
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"Fruits of retirement: or, Miscellaneous poems, moral and divine. Being contemplations, letters, &c. Written on a variety of subjects and occasions. / By Mary Mollineux, late of Liverpool, deceased. ; To which is prefixed, some account of the author. ; [Two lines from Exodus]." In the digital collection Evans Early American Imprint Collection. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/N32794.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 4, 2024.
Contents
- title page
- A TESTIMONY CONCERNING MY DEAR FRIEND AND COUSIN MARY MOLLINEUX, DECEASED, In a living Remembrance of the Benefit which I re∣ceived by her Labour of Love; and now recommend to the Youth of our Age, to excite them to Faithful∣ness, and a circumspect Conversation.
- A TESTIMONY CONCERNING MY DEAR FRIEND MARY MOLLINEUX.
- A TESTIMONY CONCERNING MY LATE WIFE MARY MOLLINEUX, DECEASED.
- A few Words more, in Remembrance of my dear Wife, M. Mollineux.
- The following Relation, touching some Discourse that, upon Occasion, she had with Doctor Stratford, so called, Bishop of the Diocess of Cheshire and Lan∣cashire, &c.
- TO THE READER.
- THE CONTENTS.
- Fruits of Retirement: OR EPISTLES in Prose.
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Fruits of Retirement: OR Miscellaneous Poems, MORAL, AND DIVINE.
- Of the Fall of Man.
- Of a sinful State.
- On GOD'S LOVE.
- Of this. Age.
- On the fruitless Fig-Tree.
- On Israel's Rebellion.
- Meditations in Trouble.
- A Meditation.
- On PETER.
- A Meditation in Affliction.
- On the Sight of a Skull.
- A Meditation.
- On the Parable of the Ten Virgins.
- A Meditation.
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On NA
AB and ABIHU. - On CHARITY.
- Contemplation.
- A Meditation in Retirement.
- On the Vanity of the World.
- A Contemplation.
- A Meditation.
- On TRUTH.
- Contemplation.
- The Retreat, a Meditation.
- The first EPISTLE to Cousin F. R.
- The second EPISTLE to Cousin F. R.
- A Remembrancer.
- An EPISTLE to Cousin E. S.
- To Cousin M. S.
- The third EPISTLE to Cousin F. R.
- The fourth EPISTLE to Cousin F. R. in Answer to one received.
- To Cousin. P. S.
- Contemplation.
- An EPISTLE to M. J.
- Meditations.
- The fifth EPISTLE to Cousin F. R.
- The sixth EPISTLE to Cousin F. R.
- Meditations in Trouble.
- Concerning Trials.
- A Meditation in Retirement.
- Of MODESTY.
- Meditation.
- On ELIJAH.
- Of CHASTITY.
- Of a FRIEND.
- A Meditation.
- Of the Rainbow.
- Of CONTENT.
- An EPISTLE to M. R.
- An EPISTLE to Cousin J. R.
- An ELEGY.
- An EPISTLE.
- The seventh EPISTLE to Cousin F. R. being then under some Exercises of Mind.
- The eighth EPISTLE to Cousin F. R.
- A Letter to Cousin F. R.
- A Parable to Cousin F. R.
- SOLITUDE.
- A Meditation.
- Meditations on Persecution.
- On DANIEL.
- Meditations concerning our Imprisonment only for Conscience-sake, 1684, in Lancaster Castle.
- Another Letter to Cousin F. R.
- On FRIENDSHIP.
- On the Three Holy Children.
- The Conclusion of a Letter to Cousin F. R.
- A Meditation.
- To her Friend M. J.
- A Meditation.
- Friendship tried.
- A Meditation.
- Of a happy Life.
- On DAVID and JONATHAN.
- On MODESTY and CHASTITY.
- Retirement.
- On SOLOMON's Request.
- A Meditation.
- A Contemplation.
- Of FRIENDSHIP.
- A Letter to a Friend.
- Another Letter to a Friend.
- Upon parting with a Friend.
- A Letter of Invitation to a Friend.
- A Meditation.
- Another Meditation.
- Dat veniam Corvis, vexat censura Columbis.
- A Letter to Cousin F. R. [Written after her Marriage.]
- Another Letter to Cousin F. R.
- A third Letter to Cousin F. R.
- UPON SILENCE [Written by another Hand.]
- BOOKS PRINTED and SOLD by JOSEPH CRUKSHANK, on the North side of Market-Street, between Second and Third Streets, Philadelphia.