 | 64. For the theory of the national convenant see Miller,
From Colony To Province
.
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| 65. The quotations are in Stoddard,
Doctrine of Instituted Churches
, 25-26, 27. See also 28-32.
|
| 66. Stoddard,
Safety of Appearing
, 119-21;
An Appeal To The Learned
, 21, and
passim
.
|
| 67. Stoddard,
An Appeal To The Learned
, 21-22.
|
| 68.
Ibid
. For Mather's views about saints and sinners in the land, see above, Chapter 6.
|
| 69. Increase Mather,
Dissertation Wherein The Strange Doctrine
, 85, asks "But would he [Stoddard] bring the Churches in
New-England
back to the Imperfect Reformation in other Lands, and so deprieve us of our Glory for ever?"
|
| 70. The quotation is from
A Discourse Concerning The Danger of Apostasy
, 56.
|
| 1. Quoted in Perry Miller,
The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century
(New York, 1939, reissued Cambridge, Mass., 1954), 207.
|
| 2. Quoted in
Ibid
. 212.
|
| 3. Increase Mather,
Heavens Alarm To The World
, "To the Reader." The comet was first noticed in New England on November 14, 1680; it could not be seen after the middle of the following February. Mather gave this sermon January 20, 1681.
|
| 4.
Ibid
. "To the Reader" for the measurement of the comet's "radiant Locks." Increase Mather read the following by Hooke:
Lectures and Collections Made By Robert Hooke, Secretary of the Royal Society
(London, 1678).
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| 5. Hooke,
Lectures and Collections
, 7-10, 15. Hooke discusses Brahe and Kepler on 17-19.
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