 | 48. Mather,
India Christiana
, 71.
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| 1. Robert Boyle,
The Christian Virtuoso
(London, 1690), 54. Mather originally referred to his
The Christian Philosopher
(London, 1721) as the
Christian Virtuoso
. See
Diary
, II, 324, 332, 511. In
Christianus Per Ignem
, he wrote of "the Incomparable
Robert
Boyl" (13).
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| 2. Mather,
Christianus Per Ignem
, 12-14.
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| 3. See
Thoughts For the Day of Rain
(Boston, 1712), 2, where Mather says that scientific study provides a way of doing something toward the restitution of the "Primitive and Paradisian State" and "a little to bring on the State for which the whole creation groaneth!"
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| 4. See above, Chapter 8.
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| 5. For one of Mather's conventional statements on thunder see his
Brontologia Sacra: The Voice Of The Glorious God In The Thunder
(London, 1695), reprinted in the
Magnalia
, Book VI, 14-20.
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| 6. Quoted in Samuel Eliot Morison,
Harvard College In The Seventeenth Century
, I, 216.
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| 7. See
Ibid
. I, 208-51 for an account of science at Harvard.
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| 8. Cotton Mather,
The Wonderful Works of God Commemorated
(Boston, 1690), 26-27.
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| 9.
Ibid
. 25, 26-27.
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| 10. Cotton Mather,
An Elegy On The Much-to-be-deplored Death Of That Never-to-be-forgotten Person, The Reverend Mr. Nathanael Collins
(Boston, 1685), 5, and 5n.
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| 11. Cotton Mather,
Wonderful Works
, 26.
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