 | 14. Boyle,
Works
, II, 20, 21, and
passim
.
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| 15. Cotton Mather, Biblia Americana, Genesis, 1; mss. in M.H.S. There is no reliable pagination in this work (in fact few pages are numbered). I will refer to the biblical chapter where Mather's commentary is found.
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| 16. Mather betrays this uneasiness even in his early works. Boyle may not have felt it.
|
| 17. See, for example,
Christianus Per Ignem
, 7.
|
| 18. Mather's late work, including the
Christian Philosopher
, emphasizes these propositions even more than the early.
|
| 19. Biblia, Genesis, 1, 7, 8, and
passim
; Matthew, 12 and
passim
. Portions of Mather's commentary were written in 1699; still others in 1702 and 1706.
|
| 20. Biblia, Genesis, 1, 7, and
passim
.
|
| 21. The
Dictionary of National Biography
gives the essential biographical information about Bentley and Whiston. Julius H. Tuttle, "William Whiston and Cotton Mather,"
Pub. Col. Soc. Mass
., XIII, 197-204, discusses briefly a theological dispute between Mather and Whiston.
|
| 22. Biblia, Genesis, 1.
|
| 23.
Ibid
.
|
| 24.
Ibid
.
|
| 25. Mather discussed briefly Newton's
Optics
(1704) in the "Preface" to
Thoughts For The Day Of Rain
.
|
| 26. Biblia, Genesis, 1.
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