Research Catalog

Title

A help to a national reformation. [electronic resource] : Containing an abstract of the penal-laws against prophaneness and vice. A form of the warrants issued out upon offenders against the said laws. Directions to Inferior Officers in the Execution of their Office. Prudential Rules for the giving of Informations to the Magistrates in these Cases. A Specimen of an Agreement for the Forming of a Society for Reformation of Manners in any City, Town, or larger Village of the Kingdom. And her Majesty's Proclamation for preventing and punishing Immorality and Prophaneness; and the late Act of Parliament against prophane Swearing and Cursing. To which is added, an account of the progress of the reformation of manners in England an Ireland, and other Parts of the World: With Reasons and Directions for our engaging in this Glorious Work. And the special obligations of magistrates To be diligent in the Execution of the Penal-Laws against Prophaneness and Debauchery, for the effecting of a National Reformation. AS Also, Some Considerations offered to such unhappy Persons as are guilty of prophane Swearing and Cursing, Drunkenness, and Uncleanness, and are not past Counsel. Printed for the Ease of Magistrates, Ministers, and Inferior Officers, and the Direction and Encouragement of private Persons who in any Part of the Kingdom are engaged in the Glorious Work of Reformation, or are Religiously disposed to contribute their Endeavours for the Promoting of it.

Publication

London : printed and sold by Joseph Downing in Bartholomew Close, near West-Smithfield, 1720.

Details

Description

[16],151,[1]p.; 8⁰.

Subject

Immoral conditions (Law) > England > Early works to 1800

Note

• Sometimes attributed to Josiah Woodward.
• Reproduction of original from British Library.

Indexed In (note)

• English Short Title Catalog

Reproduction (note)

• Electronic reproduction.

OCLC

• 642151904
• ECCO1-N17495

Title

A help to a national reformation. [electronic resource] : Containing an abstract of the penal-laws against prophaneness and vice. A form of the warrants issued out upon offenders against the said laws. Directions to Inferior Officers in the Execution of their Office. Prudential Rules for the giving of Informations to the Magistrates in these Cases. A Specimen of an Agreement for the Forming of a Society for Reformation of Manners in any City, Town, or larger Village of the Kingdom. And her Majesty's Proclamation for preventing and punishing Immorality and Prophaneness; and the late Act of Parliament against prophane Swearing and Cursing. To which is added, an account of the progress of the reformation of manners in England an Ireland, and other Parts of the World: With Reasons and Directions for our engaging in this Glorious Work. And the special obligations of magistrates To be diligent in the Execution of the Penal-Laws against Prophaneness and Debauchery, for the effecting of a National Reformation. AS Also, Some Considerations offered to such unhappy Persons as are guilty of prophane Swearing and Cursing, Drunkenness, and Uncleanness, and are not past Counsel. Printed for the Ease of Magistrates, Ministers, and Inferior Officers, and the Direction and Encouragement of private Persons who in any Part of the Kingdom are engaged in the Glorious Work of Reformation, or are Religiously disposed to contribute their Endeavours for the Promoting of it.

Imprint

London : printed and sold by Joseph Downing in Bartholomew Close, near West-Smithfield, 1720.

Edition

The fifth edition with great additions.

Reproduction

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

Indexed In:

English Short Title Catalog, N17495.

Connect to:

Full text online available from home with a valid library card and onsite at NYPL

Place of Publication

Great Britain England London.