 | clear, though less ambitious, endorsement of the Proposals. John Wise,
The Churches Quarrel Espoused
(2d ed., Boston, 1715) is justly celebrated. Wise referred to Cotton Mather as "an
Anomulous
Author" (58) and quoted
Eleutheria
against him.
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| 48. For further discussion of these points see below, Chapter 17.
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| 49. For a representative collection of Mather's sermons on PIETY, see his
Malachi. Or, The Everlasting Gospel, Preached Unto The Nations. And Those MAXIMS of PIETY
(Boston, 1717).
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| 50. Cotton Mather,
Icono-clastes
(Boston, 1717), 15, for the quotation.
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| 51.
Ibid
. 15. See also Mather's
Brethren Dwelling Together In Unity
, for the comment about the sectarian spirit that leads men to prefer a man of their own persuasion to one of the "Best Morals."
Malachi
, and
Piety and Equity United
(Boston, 1717), also deal with these and related issues raised by the New Piety.
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| 52. Cotton Mather,
Brethren Dwelling Together
, 6, 17-19, 24-25, 26-27, and
passim; Malachi
, 51, where Mather declares that all good men are "United in the Maxims of Piety" and "indeed a sufficient Basis for an UNION in
Religion
, is provided and afforded in them." In
Coelestinus
(Boston, 1723), Mather says that he has seen Baptists, Congregationalists, Presbyterians, Episcopalians, Lutherans, and Calvinists at the Communion Table together (v-vi).
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| 53. Mather,
Malachi
, 40, for the quotations, and 39-42 for his argument developed in this paragraph.
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| 54.
Ibid
. 35.
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| 1. Cotton Mather,
A Companion For The Afflicted
(Boston, 1701), 6-9, 18-23, 25-26.
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| 2. Thomas Hooker,
The Application of Redemption
(London, 1656), Book III, 152.
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| 3. See above, Chapters 4, 9, and the notes to these chapters.
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| 4. Not every Puritan divine agreed on the character of these stages. Edmund S. Morgan,
Visible Saints
contains a fine discussion of the conversion process.
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