The Mathers: Three Generations of Puritan Intellectuals, 1596-1728 (123 page)

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61. Mather,
Faith of the Fathers
(Boston, 1699), 4.

62. Mather,
Diary
, I, 315.

63. Mather, Problema Theologicum, 52-56, 89.

64.
Ibid
. 68.

65. Ibid
. 67-68 (the quotation is from 68). Mather had read the French version of Poiret's
L' Economie Divine
(Amsterdam, 1687).

66. In
Theopolis America
(Boston, 1710), Mather suggests that America may become a part of the city of God; see 43-51. In Triparadisus, Pt. III, Sect. X, he returned to the question, still puzzled, but determined to reject Mede's views. Although Mather did not declare himself fully satisfied with Poiret's suggestion that Gog and Magog came from Hades, he clearly preferred it to Mede's contentions about their American orgins.

67. Biblia, "Coronis."

68.
Ibid
.

69. Whiston,
Essay on Revelation
, 52-92, and
passim
.

Page 423

70. Biblia, "Coronis"; Whiston,
Essay on Revelation
, 187, and
passim
.

71. Whiston,
Essay on Revelation
, 215. Whiston qualified his prediction at this point, saying that conclusion of the Antichristian state might not occur until 1736.

72. (2d. ed., London, 1692).

73. Mather,
A Midnight Cry
, 60; Biblia, "Coronis."

74. Biblia, Revelation, 11; Whiston,
Essay On Revelation
, 209 and
passim
.

75. Whiston,
Essay on Revelation
, 209-10.

76. Samuel Sewall,
Letter-Book, Collections
, M.H.S. (6th Ser., Boston, 1888), II, 53-54, 64-65, 78, 83; Mather to Samuel Penhallow, April 17, 1712,
Diary
, II, 171-74. See, too, II, 176.

77. (Boston, 1716)

78.
Diary
, II, 416.

79. See citations in note 76 above.

80. Joel 2.28;
Diary
, II, 365.

81.
Diary
, II, 366.

82. Mather, Triparadisus, Pt. III, Sect. XII.