 | 39. Increase Mather,
Several Sermons
(Boston, 1715), ii;
Practical Truths Plainly Delivered
, "Preface."
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| 40. Increase Mather,
The Mystery of Christ Opened And Applyed
(Boston, 1686), 145.
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| 41. Almost all of Increase Mather's sermons dealing with sin and regeneration employ some of this language. For a representative example see his
Awakening Truth's Tending to Conversion
, 66-78, 82-87, and
passim
.
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| 42. Richard Mather,
A Farewel-Exhortation
(Cambridge, Mass., 1657), 5; Increase Mather,
The Folly of Sinning
(Boston, 1699), 56-57.
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| 43. Increase Mather,
Practical Truths Tending to Promote the Power Godliness
, 160-72, 178-79.
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| 44. Increase Mather,
Pray For the Rising Generation
(3d Impression, Boston, 1685), 191, 196-98. See also Mather's
A Call From Heaven
(Boston, 1679) and his
An Earnest Exhortation to the Children of New England
(Boston, 1711).
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| 45. This rigidity is clear in his "An Apologetical Preface" to John Davenport's
Another Essay For Investigation of the Truth
.
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| 46. These feelings are clearest after the early 1680's.
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| 47. See the
Autobiography
and the Diary for his introspection.
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| 48. Diary, M.H.S.
Proceedings
, XIII, 342.
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| 49. Parts of Maria Mather's papers were reprinted in the Preface to Increase Mather,
A Sermon Concerning Obedience & Resignation To The Will of God
.
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| 51.
Autobiography
, 361-18; Increase Mather,
Practical Truths Tending to Promote the Power of Godliness
, 119-48,
passim
.
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