| 14. Cotton Mather, Perswasions From The Terror of the Lord , 20-28; and Terra Beata , 18-25. See also, Chapter 14, above. Increase Mather made the same points in his chiliasm.
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| 15. See, for example, Mather's Theopolis Americana (Boston, 1710).
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| 16. Mather, Perswasions From the Terror of the Lord , 28.
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| 17. Ibid . 28-29.
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| 18. Cotton Mather, The Stone Cut Out of the Mountain , 2-8; and passim; Malachi , 81 and passim .
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| 19. Mather, Things To Be Look'd For , 50-56.
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| 20. Calef's charge came in More Wonders of the Invisible World (London, 1700). The ministers' response, including Cotton Mather's, in Obadiah Gill and others, Some Few Remarks Upon A Scandalous Book (Boston, 1701).
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| 21. Cotton Mather's ideas about Satan may be studied in his Batteries Upon The Kingdom of the Devil (London, 1695); and The Armour of Christianity . The Devil is a prominent figure in the Biblia and in Triparadisus.
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| 22. Mather, Triparadisus, Pt. III, Sect. VIII for the quotation. This section describes the conflagration in great detail. See also Mather's, Things To Be Look'd For , 67-68; A Midnight Cry , 22-24; Things For a Distress'd People to Think Upon (Boston, 1696), 34-37; The World Alarm'd , 3-5.
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| 23. Mather, Triparadisus, Pt. III, Sect. VII, X; Biblia, Revelation, 22.
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| 24. Cotton Mather, Psalterium Americahum (Boston, 1718), xxix-xxxi; and Triparadisus, Pt. III, Sect. III.
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| 25. Mather, Triparadisus, Pt. III, Sect. VIII.
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