 | 5.
Ibid
. 74-75.
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| 6.
Ibid
. 79.
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| 7. Increase Mather did not make these points explicitly, and in fact as late as 1702 in an election sermon dedicated to Joseph Dudley
The Excellency of A Publick Spirit (Boston
, 1702) seems to indicate that he still trusted the State. But the old hope and trust were not there, and, of course, the Mathers soon broke with Dudley.
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| 8. All the jeremiads cited above and in Chapter 6 appeal to sinners as well as saints.
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| 9. (London, 1641).
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| 10.
Ibid
. 71, 80.
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| 11.
Ibid
. 71-79.
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| 12. The jeremiads cited above and in Chapter 6 reveal this direction in Mather's thought. See especially the
Discourse Concerning The Danger Of Apostasy
.
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| 13. For the founders' ideas on ecclesiastical polity see Chapter 3. And see, too, Edmund S. Morgan,
Visible Saints
(New York, 1963), Chapters 1-4.
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| 14. Increase Mather,
The Order Of The Gospel
, 14-17 and
passim
. The jeremiads also frequently make these same points.
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| 15.
Ibid
. 18.
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| 16. (Cambridge, Mass., 1663).
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| 17.
Ibid. passim
.
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