Meditations on Spiritual Consolations

Submission and Reliance on God, July 8, 1656

After Sickness and Weakness, May 11, 1657 .

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Verses, May 13, 1657 . .

Submission to Chastisement from God, Sept. 30, 1657

Poem upon her son Samuel's going to England, Nov. 6, 1657
Divine Dealings, May 11, 1661

Verses; Thankfulness for Health.

On the Restoration of her Husband from an Ague, June, 1661
Upon her daughter, Hannah Wiggin's recovery from a Fever
On her son Samuel's return from England, July 17, 1661.
On her Husband's going to England, Jan. 16, 1661–62
In her solitary hours in her Husband's absence

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Verses upon the burning of her house, July 10, 1666

Verses; Longing for Heaven, Aug. 31, 1669.

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Meditations, Divine and Moral.

Dedication of the Meditations to her son, Simon Bradstreet,

Latin Translation of the Dedication of the Meditations by

her great-grandson, Simon Bradstreet

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Latin Translation of the first four Meditations by the same

Poems.

Fac-simile of Title-Page of First Edition

Fac-simile of Title-Page of Second Edition

Address to the Reader

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Anagrams of the Author's name

Commendatory Verses by J. Rogers.

Dedication to her father, Thomas Dudley, Esq., March 20,

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The Prologue

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David's Lamentation for Saul and Jonathan .

To the Memory of her Father, Thomas Dudley, Esq.

Epitaph on her Mother, Mrs. Dorothy Dudley

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Upon a Fit of Sickness, Anno. 1632. Etatis suæ, 19.
Upon some Distemper of Body

To her Father with some Verses

In Reference to her Children, June 23, 1656.

In Memory of her grand-child Elizabeth Bradstreet

daughter-in law Mrs. Mercy Bradstreet. 407

A Funeral Elegy upon the Author by the Rev. John Norton 409

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