 | 43.
Ibid
. I, 66. For Mather's use of Ball, Baynes, and Cartwright see Pt. II, 27-29.
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| 44.
Ibid
. I, 69.
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| 45.
Ibid
. I, 69-70.
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| 46.
Ibid
. I, 70. The Biblical passages cited are 2
Kings
25.24, 25;
Acts
8.37;
Revelation
2.2.
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| 47. See John Cotton,
Of The Holinesse of Church Members
(London, 1650),
passim
.
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| 48. A Plea, I, 72.
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| 49.
Ibid
. I, 72-73.
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| 50.
Ibid
. I, 81-83.
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| 51.
Ibid
. II, 27-29. On the uses of hypocrisy, see Perry Miller,
The New England Mind: From Colony To Province
(Cambridge, Mass., 1953) 68-81.
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| 52. A Plea, I, 142-47; II, 48-62.
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| 53.
Ibid
. II, 72-73. Mather's ideas about the growth of grace are discussed in the next chapter. The sources are The Summe of Seventie Lectures, and
The Summe of Certain Sermons Upon Genes
: 15.6 (Cambridge, Mass., 1652).
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| 54. Written with Jonathan Mitchell. (Cambridge, Mass., 1664), 51-52. Mitchell wrote the first part of this work; Mather, the second.
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| 55.
Ibid
. 51.
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