Read The Mathers: Three Generations of Puritan Intellectuals, 1596-1728 Online

Authors: Robert Middlekauff

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The Mathers: Three Generations of Puritan Intellectuals, 1596-1728 (122 page)

38. Miller,
From Colony To Province
tends to emphasize the passage of political power through ministerial hands.
39. The dreams mentioned here are clear in both the Biblia and Triparadisus.
40. It is probably impossible to work out a list of all of Mather's reading on the prophecies. Besides Mede, Jurieu, and Whiston, the following were especially important in the development of his eschatology: Thomas Philipott,
A New Systeme of the Apocalypse
(London, 1688); Drue Cressner,
Applications of the Apocalypse
(London, 1690); Pierre Poiret,
The Divine Economy
(London, 1713; originally pub. in French, Amsterdam, 1687); Thomas Goodwin,
The World To Come
(London, 1655); William Burner,
An Essay on Scripture-Prophecy
(New York, 1724); and, of course, the commentaries of Increase Mather.
41. Daniel 7.19. The
Geneva Bible
says "unlike to all the others."
42. See especially Part I,
passim
, of Mede's
Key of Revelation
.
43. He did not, so far as I can tell from reading the Biblia, and the published works on these Scriptures.
44. Whiston,
Essay on Revelation
, 42-61. Mather reviews all these issues in Biblia, Revelation,
passim
, and "Coronis."
45. Biblia, "Coronis."
46. Whiston,
Essay on Revelation
, 222, and
passim
; Biblia, "Coronis."
47. Biblia, Revelation, 1, following (and often quoting) Jurieu.
 
Page 422
48. Biblia, Revelation, ''Coronis'';
Diary
, II,
passim
.
49. (Cambridge, Mass., 1691), text caption.
50. Mather had just read Jurieu's commentary on the vials, but he was not completely convinced by the argument. See
Things To Be Look'd For
, 42-43.
51. Jurieu,
Accomplishment of the Scripture Prophecies
, 78-224; Mather,
Things To Be Look'd For
, 42-43;
Midnight Cry
, 1-9, 30-32, 63.
52. Mather,
Things To Be Look'd
For, 32, 39-40.
53.
Midnight Cry
, 60.
54. Cotton Mather,
The Wonders of the Invisible World
, 26-27.
55. Composed in 1692.
56. Mather,
Wonders
, 22-25, and
passim; Things To Be Look'd For
, 32, 54-55. Mather said about this time, "I am verily perswaded, There are Some already Born, who shall see the most Glorious Revolutions that ever happened in any former ages. . . ." This age, he explained, was "in the very Dawns of our Lords Coming to Destroy the Wicked one."
Winter-Meditations
, 51.
57. Cotton Mather, himself, never insisted that his predictions were wholly exact.
58. Mather,
Diary
, I, 261-62.
59.
Ibid
. I, 262.
60.
Ibid
. I, 261-62.

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