 | 15. The sources through which the Antinomian crisis can be studied are in Charles Francis Adams,
Antinomianism in the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, 1636-1638
(Boston, 1894). Study of these documents persuades me that Mather's view was widely held. There are excellent accounts of Antinomianism in Miller's
From Colony To Province
, E. S. Morgan's
The Puritan Dilemma: The Story of John Winthrop
(Boston, 1958), and Emery Battis'
Saints and Sectaries
(Chapel Hill, 1962). For a modern edition
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| of important documents and a perceptive commentary see David D. Hall, ed.,
The Antinomian Controversy, 1636-1638: A Documentary History
(Middletown, Conn., 1968).
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| 16. Summe of Seventie Lectures, 124-48, 204-10, 236-38;
Summe of Certain Sermons
, 22-26.
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| 17. Summe of Seventie Lectures, 63.
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| 18.
Ibid
. 62-63, 65-67, 104-10, 211, and
passim
.
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| 19. Thomas Hooker,
The Application of Redemption
(London, 1656), 345. See also 305, 307, 335.
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| 20.
Ibid
. and
passim
.
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| 21. Thomas Shepard,
The Sincere Convert
, 116-17, 151, 158; John Cotton,
The Way of Life
(London, 1641), 4-13, 182; John Cotton,
Christ the Fountaine of Life
(London, 1651),
passim
; John Norton,
The Orthodox Evangelist
(London, 1654), Chapter 6, especially 139.
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| 22. Summe of Seventie Lectures, 122-48, 209-34, 262-72.
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| 23. Hooker,
Application of Redemption
, 345; Cotton,
Way of Life
, 133.
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| 24. Mather, Cotton, Hooker, Shepard all make comments that indicate that they were questioned by anxious men. See especially Summe of Seventie Lectures, 88-91, 256-57, 264-65.
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| 25.
Ibid
. 104-5, and the works by Cotton, Hooker, and Shepard in note 21.
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