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Authors: Robert Middlekauff

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The Mathers: Three Generations of Puritan Intellectuals, 1596-1728 (107 page)

29. Mather's fervor is clear in the works cited in note 28, and in such efforts as
Pia Disideria
(Boston, 1722), and
Divine Afflations
(New London, 1722).
30. Cotton Mather,
Resort of Piety, passim
; and the sermons cited in note 28.
31. Cotton Mather,
A Life of Piety
, 28.
32.
Ibid
. 28; and see also 29-32.
33.
Ibid
. 29, for the quotations.
34. Miller,
New England Mind: Seventeenth Century
, 405-7.
35. See, for example, Cotton Mather,
The Converted Sinner
(Boston, 1724), 26-29.
 
Page 409
36. Cotton Mather,
A Soul Well-Anchored
, 12-13.
37. Cotton Mather,
A Companion for Communicants
, 67-80;
Utilia
, 15-17, and
passim
; see above, Chapter 13.
38. Cotton Mather,
Boanerges
(Boston, 1727), 14.
39.
Ibid
. 33.
40. For Mather's psychology of religion, see Chapter 13.
Chapter 15
1. Solomon Stoddard,
The Way For A People To Live Long In The Land That God Hath Given Them
(Boston, 1703), 16.
2. In 1714, for example, in a sermon before the Governor and the General Assembly, Mather describes God saying to New England: "
Thou hast Sinned against my Covenant." Duodecennium Luctuosum
(Boston, 1714), 10. See also, Cotton Mather's
Small Offers Towards The Service Of The Tabernacle In The Wilderness
(Boston, 1689),
The Way to Prosperity
(Boston, 1690), and
The Present State Of New-England
(Boston, 1690).
3. Mather also dealt with these themes in his prophetical writings which I have discussed in Chapter 18, below.
4. Cotton Mather,
The Day, And The Work Of The
Day (Boston, 1693), 60.
5. Cotton Mather,
Lex Mercatoria. Or, The Just Rules Of Commerce Declared
(Boston, 1705), 10-39;
A Christian At His Calling
(Boston, 1701), 60-71;
The Religious Marriner
, 20.
6. Cotton Mather,
Theopolis Americana
(Boston, 1710), 19.
7. Cotton Mather,
Addresses To Old Men, and Young Men, and Little Children
, 71-80;
Necessary Admonitions
(Boston, 1702), 29-30;
A Monitory Letter
(Boston, 1702), 16;
The Best Ornaments of Youth
(Boston, 1707), 29-30; and see also Chapter 11, above.

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