 | 6. Increase Mather,
A Dissertation Wherein The Strange Doctrine
, 130-32.
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| 7. Increase Mather's belief that the conversion of national Israel would inaugerate the last days was widely shared; this belief made scholars holding it reluctant to claim that the millennium had commenced.
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| 8. Increase Mather,
A Dissertation Concerning The Future Conversion Of The Jewish Nation
, 3-12. This was written in 1695. Paul's forecast is in Romans 11.26.
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| 9. Increase Mather,
Faith and Fervency In Prayer
, 98-104,
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| for the information on the Turks, Danzig, Hamburg; the quotation is from 99.
Five Sermons
(Boston, 1719), 50, 61, 54, for the quotations (in order); see, too, 120-25.
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| 10. Increase Mather,
Five Sermons
, 123-25.
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| 11. Mather could, however, occasionally still call for repentance and reform. See
Ibid
. 125-28.
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| 12.
Ibid
. Preface; see also Increase Mather,
A Discourse Concerning The Existence And Omniscience Off God
(Boston, 1716), Preface;
Several Sermons
, vi-vii.
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| 13. See above, Chapter 4.
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| 14. Increase Mather,
Burnings Bewailed
(Boston, 1711), 8, 30-32.
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| 15. Increase Mather,
Faith and Fervency In Prayer
, 36.
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| 16. Increase Mather,
Practical Truth's Tending To Promote Holiness
(Boston, 1704), 98; and
Meditations On The Glory Of The Heavenly World
(Boston, 1711), 9, 269-71.
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