 | 29. Cotton Mather,
Companion For Communicants
, 87-93, and
passim
. See, too,
Balsamum Vulnerarium
, and
A Soul Well-Anchored
.
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| 30. Cotton Mather,
Balsamum Vulnerarium
, 90;
Companion For Communicants
, 76;
A Comforter Of The Mourners
(Boston, 1704), 27.
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| 31. Cotton Mather,
Everlasting Gospel
, 66. See too
Faith At Work
where the same arguments are made.
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| 32. Cotton Mather, of course, continued to recommend good works. He seems always to have extolled works in funeral sermons. See, for example, his
Tibitha Rediviva
(Boston, 1713).
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| 33. John Rogers,
The Doctrine Of Faith; Wherein Are Principally Handled Twelve Principall Points, Which Explain The Nature And Use of It
(London, 1632), 370. Rogers was one of many who argued that it was better to have all the signs weakly than a few strongly. Cotton Mather discusses assurance and self-examination in many sermons and books. See, for example,
Com-
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| panion For Communicants; Armour Of Christianity; Utilia; A Soul Well-Anchored; The Religion Of The Closet
(Boston, 1705).
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| 34. See above, Chapters 4 and 9; and
Menachem
, 16-22. In
The Tryed Professor
(Boston, 1719), Mather discussed signs of hypocrisy as well as of grace. See 9-16.
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| 35. Cotton Mather,
Comforter Of Mourners
, 32. And for similar expressions, see Mather's
Winter Piety
(Boston, 1712), 29;
Utilia
, 185-90;
Christianity Demonstrated. An Essay To Consider The Sanctifying Work Of Grace
(Boston, 1710), 8.
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| 36. G. S. Brett,
A History Of Psychology
(3 vols., London, 1921), II, 71 discusses the theory of psychological states localized in the body.
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| 37. The quotations are from Shepard,
Sincere Convert
, 150; Increase Mather,
A Plain Discourse, Shewing Who Shall, and Who Shall Not Enter Into . . . Heaven
(Boston, 1713), 50; Cotton Mather,
Companion For Communicants
, 131.
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| 38. The ultimate expression of Mather's emphasis on desire appears in his
Pia Desideria
(Boston, 1722) where he said "A
Desire, a desire
, to
Fear
the
Name of
GOD. If such a
Desire
be found in us, we shall be found among the True Servants of GOD; and His Ear
will be attentive unto our Prayer
. Verily,
As a Man Desireth in His
Heart, so is He.'" (3)
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