 | 24. Increase Mather, "To The Reader," in Samuel Willard,
The Peril of the Times Displayed
(Boston, 1700).
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| 25.
Ibid
. 8-11. The book Mather discussed was Josiah Woodward,
An Account of the Rise And Progress Of The Religious Societies In The City of London
(London, 1689).
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| 26. Cotton Mather,
Religious Societies
(Boston, 1724), 1-19 (in the second part, separate pagination). See also
Diary
, II, 712. Mather next called for the creation of orderly societies in
The Wonders Of The Invisible World
(Boston, 1693), 64. There evidently was a religious society of Negroes in Boston as early as 1693. See Mather's
Rules For The Society of Negroes. 1693
(Boston, 1693?);
Diary
, I, 176.
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| 27.
Diary
, I, 418-19; Cotton Mather,
Methods and Motives For Societies To Suppress Disorders
(Boston, 1703).
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| 28. Cotton Mather,
Methods and Motives
, 8, and
passim
urged that the reforming societies (of mature men) suppress vice. And see, Cotton Mather,
Private Meetings Animated and Regulated
(Boston, 1706).
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| 29.
Methods and Motives
, 7, and
passim
; Cotton Mather,
A Faithful Monitor
(Boston, 1704), 50, 54, and
passim; Diary
, II, 150, 160, 206, 229, 235, 283;
Diary For
. . . 1712, 19.
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| 30.
Methods and Motives
, 7, 8.
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| 31. See the excellent study by William Kellaway,
The New England Company, 1649-1776
(New York, 1962).
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| 32.
Methods and Motives
, 1-8,
passim
.
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| 33.
Diary
, I, 516-17, 522-23; II, 2, 27, 42, 107, 118, 131, 275, 767, and
passim
.
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| 34.
Diary
, II, 44, 315, 369, 397, 439, 573, 712;
Diary For
. . . 1712, 13, 15, 16, and
passim
.
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| 35.
Diary
, II, 356, 360, 370, 372, 373, 388, 391, 442, 646, and
passim
.
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