 | 38. Cotton Mather,
A Pillar of Gratitude
(Boston, 1700), 22.
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| 39. These controversies can be followed in these works by Increase Mather,
A Brief Discourse Concerning The Unlawfulness of The Common Prayer Worship
(Cambridge, Mass., 1686; London, 1689); "To The Reader," in
A Letter From Some Aged
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| Nonconforming Ministers
(4th ed., Boston, 1712);
Some Remarks On A Pretended Answer
(Boston?, 1713?). The important Anglican tracts are: William King,
A Discourse Concerning The Inventions of Men
(5th ed., Boston, 1712); John Williams,
A Brief Discourse Concerning the Lawfulness of Worshipping God By the Common Prayer
(2d ed.? Boston, 1712). See, too, Cotton Mather,
A Seasonable Testimony To The Glorious Doctrines of Grace
(Boston, 1702), part of which was reprinted in 1711 as
The Old Pathes Restored
. Holmes,
Increase Mather
, II, 534-38 gives many bibliographical details. For Mather's activity in distributing the tracts against the Anglicans,
Diary
, II, 175;
Diary
. . . 1712, 76, 80.
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| 40. Cotton Mather,
The Glorious Throne
(Boston, 1714). The address is in
Diary
, II, 300-3. See, too, Benjamin Colman,
A Sermon Preach'd at Boston
, 26.
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| 41. For early attempts at increasing synodical power, see
Collections
4, M.H.S., VIII, 193; Walker,
Creeds
, 137-39, 267; James K. Hosmer, ed.,
Winthrop's Journal
(2 vols., New York, 1908, reprinted, 1959), I, 112-13. There is a good, brief account of English experience in Geoffrey F. Nuttall,
Visible Saints
(Oxford, 1957), 122-23.
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| 42. Cotton Mather gives information about the history of New England associations in various places, including
Thirty Important Cases
(Boston, 1702);
Magnalia
(London, 1702); and the
Ratio Disciplinae Fratrum Nov Anglorum
(Boston, 1726). See, too, the "Records of the Cambridge Association," M.H.S.
Proceedings
, XVII (Boston, 1880).
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| 43. The
Proposals
of 1705 are in Walker,
Creeds
, 486-90.
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| 44. Increase Mather's opposition was declared in
A Disquisition Concerning Ecclesiastical Councils
.
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| 45. For May and the quotation,
Diary
, I, 313; and see 314, 315-16, 324, 328-29. Mather's
A Warning To The Flocks Against Wolves In Sheeps Cloathing
(Boston, 1700) was one result of the May episode.
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| 46.
Diary
, I, 385 for the quotation. The full sermon is on 384-88.
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| 47. John Rogers,
A Sermon Preached Before His Excellency, the Governour
(Boston, 1706), 48. Ebenezer Pemberton delivered a strong defense of the Proposals in
The Divine Original and Dignity of Government Asserted
(Boston, 1710), 102-3, where he said that they had been "misrepresented, and Prophanely descanted on." The year before, Grindall Rawson in
The Necessity of a Speedy and Thorough Reformation
(Boston, 1709) gave a
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