 | 50.
Ibid
. for the stories. I have studied Mather's theory of the Nishmath-Chagim in Triparadisus, mss. in A.A.S.; and in The Angel of Bethesda, mss. in A.A.S. The relevant chapter has been included in Otho T. Beall and Richard H. Shryock,
Cotton Mather: First Significant Figure in American Medicine
(Baltimore, 1954). And, see also Cotton Mather,
Coheleth
(Boston, 1720).
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| 1. Cotton Mather,
Successive Generations
(Boston, 1715), 20. And see also,
Tela Praevisa (Boston, 1724)
, 10-11.
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| 2. Cotton Mather, Triparadisus, Pt. II, 18-27, 36-41.
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| 3.
Ibid
. Pt. II, 40-41; and Mather's
Coelestinus
, 145-47 (second series of pagination), and
passim
.
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| 4. Cotton Mather,
Shaking Dispensations
(Boston, 1715), 28.
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| 5. Mather described the end of the world many times; I have relied heavily on his accounts in Problema Theologicum, mss. in A.A.S.; Triparadisus, Parts II and III; and Biblia, especially the commentary on Revelation. The important published works are cited in my notes below.
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| 6. Mather, Triparadisus, Pt. III, Sect. VI, "Signs of the Conflagration Coming On."
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| 7.
Ibid
. Pts. VII, VIII, IX, X. See also the following by Mather:
Things To Be Look'd For (Cambridge
, Mass., 1691);
Perswasions From The Terror of The Lord
(Boston, 1711);
The World Alarm'd
(Boston, 1721);
Terra Beata
(Boston, 1726); Biblia, 2 Peter, Revelation,
passim
.
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| 8. Mather, Triparadisus, Pt. X ("Where to find
Gog
and
Magog,
" appended, 4pp.)
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| 9. See above Chapter 2.
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| 10. Cotton Mather,
A Midnight Cry
(Boston, 1692), 11-25, 34-35, 50-55, and
passim; Successive Generations
, 3-4, 24-28;
Tremenda
(Boston, 1721), 11-19, and
passim
.
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| 11. For Mather's responses to Arminians and Arians, see above, Chapter 16.
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