 | 17.
Ibid
. I, 24, 38, 62, and
passim
.
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| 18.
Ibid
. I, 24.
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| 19. The
Diary
reflects this tension throughout.
|
| 20. Cotton Mather,
A Servant of The Lord
(Boston, 1704), 17.
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| 21. Cotton Mather,
Victorina
(Boston, 1717), 29.
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| 22. It is impossible, of course, to show in detail how I have used passages of the
Diary
; I have attempted to assess them with the circumstances of their peculiar composition in mind.
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| 23. For the quotations see
Diary . . . 1712
, 108;
Diary
, II, 117, 354. See also 123, 124.
|
| 24.
Ibid
. II, 484, 466, 642, for the quotations and the details of these relationships.
|
| 25. For an excellent discussion of Puritan attitudes toward sex see Edmund S. Morgan, "The Puritans And Sex,"
New England Quarterly
(Dec. 1942) XV, 591-607. Morgan's
The Puritan Family
(rev. ed., New York, 1966) is also valuable.
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| 26. Jonathan Mitchell,
A Discourse Of The Glory To Which God Hath Called Believers
(2d ed., Boston, 1721), 90.
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| 27. Puritan attitudes toward the body seem especially clear through the study of eschatological writings. Cotton Mather's major works, discussed below in Chapter 18, include Triparadisus, mss. at A.A.S. Increase Mather held the same views of the resurrected body. See his
Meditations On the Glory Of The Heavenly World
(Boston, 1711), 108-50. Jonathan Mitchell,
Discourse Of The Glory
, 45-49 makes the same points.
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| 28. Cotton Mather,
Diary
, I, 107, 110.
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