Samuel Sewall’s Millennialist Vision of America

Sewall, Samuel. Phaenomena quaedam apocalyptica ad aspectum novi orbis configurata. Second Ed. 1727. Together with: Willard, Samuel. The Fountain Opened. Third Ed. Boston: Printed by Bartholomew Green, Boston, 1727 Evans 2959, Sabin 79444 Binding: Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good Condition. Item Type: Book. 2 leaves (title page and address to Sir William Ashhurst) printed in facsimile on laid paper. 64 p., 24 p. Although the two works are paginated separately, the signatures are continuous (Sewall ends with Sig. S and Willard begins with Sig. T). The reprint of Willard’s pamphlet is followed by an appendix written by Sewall. Size: 8"-9" - Octavo (8vo). In bringing together his earlier work, Willard’s sermon and an update in his appendix, Sewall marshals the evidence for his position that the Millennium is near and that the discovery and Christianizing of America is a crucial and perhaps final development to that end. In his introduction to a 1998 reprint of Phænomena, Professor Rei