 | 5. Thomas Shepard,
The Sincere Convert
(4th ed., London, 1646), 75, 110.
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| 6. Miller,
From Colony To Province
, 53-67, and
passim
is
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| chiefly responsible for the view of Mather. See, too, Miller's "'Preparation For Salvation' In Seventeenth-Century New England,"
Journal of the History of Ideas
(June 1943), IV, 253-86; this article has been reprinted in
Nature's Nation
(Cambridge, 1967).
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| 7. Cotton Mather,
The Call Of The Gospel
(Boston, 1686), 33, 35, 36, 37.
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| 8. Cotton Mather,
The Armour Of Christianity
(Boston, 1704), 140-41. This work was originally given as "Thursday Lectures", June-October 1703. See, too, Cotton Mather,
Balsamum Vulnerarium
(Boston, 1692), 46-47.
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| 9. Cotton Mather, The
Everlasting Gospel. The Gospel of Justification
(Boston, 1700), 32 for the quotation "innate propensity". See, too, 29-45; and
Utilia. Real And Vital Religion Served
(Boston, 1716), 17 for quote on "money."
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| 10. Mather cautions against becoming "listless" in the
Armour of Christianity
, 116. See, too, Mather's
A Conquest Over The Grand Excuse
(Boston, 1706) for a related set of psychological scruples.
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| 11. For Mather's comments on the Devil and preparation, see the
Armour of Christianity
, 126-27. The quotations in the preceding paragraph are from Cotton Mather,
The Christian Cynick
(Boston, 1716), 33, 36. In
Utilia
, 7-8, Mather wrote: "The posture wherein we are to come unto our Savior, is
upon our Knees
. 'Tis in the quality of Petitioners, yea, and of poor ones, too, that we are to sue unto our Saviour, when we
come
unto Him. As a Beggar coming for an Alms, or as a Criminal for his
Life
. . . ."
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| 12. For the quotations, see Cotton Mather,
A Soul Well-Anchored
(Boston, 1712), 12. See also
Conquest Over The Grand Excuse
.
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| 13. Besides Mather's works already cited in the notes to this chapter see his
Faith At Work
(Boston, 1697),
Free-Grace, Maintained and Improved
(Boston, 1706),
The Heavenly Conversation
(Boston, 1710),
The Greatest Concern In The World
(2d ed., New London, 1718),
The Converted Sinner
(Boston, 1724).
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| 14. Miller,
From Colony To Province
, 53-81.
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| 15. See the following by Mather:
The Religious Marriner
(Boston, 1700), 18-20, 23-25;
A Christian At His Calling
, 38-65, and
passim; Lex Mercatoria
(Boston, 1705), 10-39;
Fair Dealing
(Boston, 1716), 13-14, 27.
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