The Mathers: Three Generations of Puritan Intellectuals, 1596-1728 (118 page)

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37.
Ibid
. 30, and see also 32-34.
38. There are occasional departures from these comments, however. In his "Introduction" to
Psalterium Americanum
(Boston, 1718), for example, he urges the Christian to "Harmonize and Symphonize" with the Holy Spirit in the Scriptures. (xxiii)
39.
Diary
, II, 387, 733 (this entry is for June 21, 1724).
40. (Philadelphia, 1725).
41. Ibid. "The Dedication."
42. See, for example, Cotton Mather,
Signatus
, 14-15, and
passim
: and
Deus Nobiscum
, 7-8.
43. Mather,
Signatus
, 14, 16, 20.
44.
Ibid
. 16.
45.
Ibid
. 20.
46. Cotton Mather,
Restitutus. The End of Life Pursued
(Boston, 1727), 24.
47.
Ibid. passim
.
48. Cotton Mather,
The Marrow of the Gospel
(Boston, 1727), 22-23, for Mather's comments on bad behavior and the Holy Spirit. See also, Mather's discussions of the Holy Spirit in the following:
Columbanus
(Boston, 1722);
Bethiah
(Boston, 1722);
Juga Jucunda
(Boston, 1727).
49. Biblia, "An Appendix Containing Some General Stores. . . ."

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