 | 26. Cotton Mather,
Diary
, I, 326.
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| 27.
Ibid
. I, 332.
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| 28. The breach was publicly patched up when Increase Mather preached to the Brattle Street Church early in 1700; on this occasiona fastCotton Mather concluded the meeting with a prayer.
Diary, I
, 332-33.
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| 29. In August, 1699, Mather reported that the "bloody Bishop of London" had written one of his Boston curates asking for information about Cotton Mather's "treasonable or seditious Passages. . . ."
Diary
, I, 312.
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| 30.
Eleutheria: Or, An Idea of the Reformation in England
(London, 1698).
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| 31. (London, 1700).
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| 32.
Ibid
. 13; and
Eleutheria
, 59-60, 63-64, 70-71, and
passim
.
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| 33.
Ibid
. 28.
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| 34.
Ibid
. 20.
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| 35.
Diary
, II, 60, 64, 81, 120, 145, 147-48, 151, 326-30. Mather wrote
The Old Pathes Restored
(Boston, 1711 )to combat the "
Pelagian
Encroachments."
Diary
, II, 81. For the background of Anglican activity, see Bridenbaugh,
Mitre and Sceptre
, 57-67. For further evidence of these and other aspects of Mather's attitude toward the S.P.G. and the Church of England see
Diary
. . . 1712, 21, 38-39, 41, 45, 87, 91; and
Diary
, II, 88-89, 212, 221, 291, 412.
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| 36. The Newbury case can be reconstructed from the following:
Diary
II, 147-48, 171, 194, 218, 223, 231;
Diary
. . . 1712, 15, 40, 76, 80; Sewall
Diary
, II, 838; Sewall
Letter Book
, I, 416-19. And see too, Joshua Coffin,
A Sketch of the History of Newbury, Newburyport, and West Newbury
(Boston, 1845), 175-85.
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| 37. For the United Brethren, see Benjamin Colman,
A Brief Inquiry Into The Reasons
. . . (Boston, 1716), 31, and
A Sermon Preach'd at Boston
. . . (Boston, 1716), 28; and Cotton Mather,
Diary
, II, 310-12 ("TO THE REVEREND . . . MINISTERS . . ., IN . . . LONDON"). For Mather's reaction to the impeachment of Sacheverell, and to the news of the destruction of the Presbyterian meetinghouses,
Diary
, II, 36; for Marlborough, the Act of Occasional Conformity,
Diary
, II, 172. The quotations are from letters reprinted in the
Diary
, II, 173, 174, and in
Collections
4 M.H.S, VIII, 414.
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