 | 17. Increase Mather,
Meditations On The Glory Of The Heavenly World
, 9.
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| 18. Increase Mather's
Blessed Hope
(Boston, 1701) is a series of sermons in which both themes discussed in this paragraph appear. For Christ as judge at the Second Coming, see
Faith And Fervency, passim
; and see, too,
Meditations On The Glory Of The Heavenly World
. The phrase "infinitely meritorious," and similar ones, appear throughout Mather's sermons. For one of the last appearances see
Five Sermons
, 116.
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| 19. Increase Mather attempted to convey some of this feeling in
Meditations On The Glory Of The Heavenly World
, and in most of the sermons cited in this chapter, delivered after about 1715.
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| 20.
Ibid
.
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| 21.
Ibid
. 117-50; see 118 and 144 for the quotations.
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| 22.
Ibid
. 130, 131-33.
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| 23.
Ibid
. 9-10.
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| 1. Cotton Mather,
The Minister
(Boston, 1722), 14.
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| 2. Cotton Mather,
Meat Out Of The Eater
(Boston, 1703), 16.
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| 3. I have discussed all these matters in later chapters with the exception of the revolt of 1689. The statement against Andros is
The Declaration Of The Gentlemen,. . April 18th 1689
(Boston, 1689).
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| 4. For Mather's working day his
Diary, passim
is revealing,
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| and it gives many reports of his fasts and other methods of worship. Samuel Mather,
The Life of The Very Reverend And Learned Cotton Mather
(Boston, 1729), 110 estimates the number of fasts. For the full range and nearly complete list of Mather's writings, published and unpublished, see Thomas James Holmes,
Cotton Mather: A Bibliography of His Works
(3 vols., Cambridge, Mass., 1940). The
Manuductio
was published in Boston in 1726. Cotton Mather's published diaries are
Diary of Cotton Mather
, M.H.S.
Collections
, 7th Series, VII-VIII, (2 vols., Boston, 1911-12; reprinted New York, 1957), Worthington C. Ford ed.; and, published separately,
The Diary of Cotton Mather, D. D., F. R. S., for the Year 1712
(Charlottesville, Va., 1964), William R. Manierre II ed.
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