 | example, his
Nepenthes Evangelicum
(Boston, 1713);
A Life of Piety Resolv'd Upon
, and
Utilia
.
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| 4. The fact that Mather recommended many techniques of worshipfasting, meditation, self-examinationthat were completely conventional should not lead us to believe that his major views were the same as those of the founders. He wanted the experience of these old ways of worship to be different.
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| 5. See above, Chapter 12; and for typical statements of Mather's "catholic" or ecumenical spirit,
Brethren Dwelling Together
and
Malachi
.
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| 6. Cotton Mather,
Nepenthes Evangelicum
, 8.
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| 7.
Ibid
. 7.
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| 8. See, for example, Mather's
The Stone Cut Out of the Mountain
.
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| 9. Mather,
Nepenthes Evangelicum
, 25-30;
Piety and Equity United
, "Measures of Equity" (separate pagination), 20-23.
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| 10. Cotton Mather,
Pascentius
, 5-6.
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| 11. Cotton Mather,
Winter Piety
, 14, where he says that "The more the
Flesh
endures, the more the Soul receives!" See also, Cotton Mather,
The Religion of the Cross
(Boston, 1714) and
The Sacrificer
(Boston, 1714). Mather's
Diary
contains much on his own asceticism.
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| 12. For examples of his techniques of worship, see the works cited in note 11, and the following by Mather:
A Present of Summer-Fruit
(Boston, 1713);
Utilia; Family-Religion Excited and Assisted
(4th Impression, Boston, 1720);
Agricola
.
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| 13. Mather,
Utilia
, 62 and
passim
; Biblia, "An Essay for a Further Commentary on the Sacred Scriptures."
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| 14. Cotton Mather,
The Words of Understanding
(Boston, 1724), 5.
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