The Mathers: Three Generations of Puritan Intellectuals, 1596-1728 (180 page)

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Authors: Robert Middlekauff

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Increase Mather's loss of faith in, 173-74, 182;

and conversion, 164;

as a type, 187;

purposes according to Cotton

Page 438

New England (
continued
)

Mather, 210-11;

and Second Coming, 239;

groups in, 264-67;

third generation divines on, 267-68;

in Cotton Mather's prophetical theory, 349.
See also
Eschatology; Israel; Mather, Cotton; Mather, Increase; Mather, Richard; Stoddard, Solomon; Typology.

New England Courant
, 355, 357

New Heavens: described by Cotton Mather, 330-32

New Jerusalem, 31

New North Church, 363

Newton, Isaac, 285, 286;

warning to Bentley, 287;

admired by Cotton Mather, 289