Mason published, besides separate sermons, 1740–1756: •
A Plain and Modest Plea for Christianity, 1743, (anon., effectively a reply to
Christianity not founded on Argument, 1742, by
Henry Dodwell. •
Self-Knowledge: a Treatise, 1745, six editions before 1763; of later editions, that of 1811, edited by J. M. Good, with
Life, has been considered accurate. It has been translated into Welsh,
Hunan-Adnabyddiaeth, Carmarthen, 1771. •
An Essay on Elocution, 1748; two editions same year; 3rd edit. 1751; 4th edit. 1761. •
An Essay on the Power of Numbers and the Principles of Harmony in Poetical Compositions, 1749; 2nd edit. 1761. •
An Essay on the Power and Harmony of Prosaic Numbers, 1749; 2nd edit. 1761. • ''The Lord's Day Evening Entertainment'', 1752, 4 vols. (52 practical discourses). •
A Letter to a Friend on his Entrance on the Ministerial Office, &c., 1753. •
The Student and Pastor, 1755; 2nd edit. [1760]. •
Fifteen Discourses, Devotional and Practical, 1758. •
Christian Morals, 1761, 2 vols. Posthumous was
The Tears of the Dying annihilated by the Hope of Heaven, a Dialogue. 1826, ed., with
Memoir, by
John Evans. Sermons by Mason are in
The Protestant System, 1758, vol. ii.; in
The Practical Preacher, 1762, vol. ii.; and in
Sermons for Families, 1808, ed.
James Hews Bransby. Mason was said to have received, for his early works and at the suggestion of John Walker, D.D., classical tutor at
Independent College, Homerton, the diploma of M.A. from
Edinburgh University. He edited
Sermons to Young People, 1747, by John Oakes, his predecessor at Cheshunt. He undertook the training of students for the ministry. Selections from his tutorial lectures were published in the ''Protestant Dissenter's Magazine
,’1794–6. They begin September 1794, p. 190, under the heading Lectiones Polemicæ. By the late Rev. John Mason, A.M., of Cheshunt''. ==Family==