Read The Mathers: Three Generations of Puritan Intellectuals, 1596-1728 Online

Authors: Robert Middlekauff

Tags: #Biographies & Memoirs, #Historical, #United States, #Leaders & Notable People, #Religious, #Christian Books & Bibles, #History, #Americas, #State & Local, #Christianity, #Religion & Spirituality, #test

The Mathers: Three Generations of Puritan Intellectuals, 1596-1728 (72 page)

26. Summe of Seventie Lectures, 89.
27.
Ibid
. 88-91.
28.
Ibid
. 128-31. 249-52.
29.
Ibid
. 104.
30.
Ibid
. 104, 105.
31.
Ibid
. 105.
32. All major Puritan writers shared this view.
33. Summe of Seventie Lectures, 105-10.
34.
Ibid
. 255-73, and
passim
.
35.
Ibid
. 329-33.
36. In urging temperance upon Dorchester, Mather once said that God punished sexual offences with "monstrous births" and "leprous children."
Ibid
. 140.
37.
Ibid
. 241
38.
Ibid
. 241; he makes this point often in these sermons.

Other books

High Hearts by Rita Mae Brown
Stuffed by Patricia Volk
The Bungalow Mystery by Carolyn Keene
Stumptown Kid by Carol Gorman and Ron J. Findley
The Shifting Tide by Anne Perry
Damascus Countdown by Joel C. Rosenberg
Feral Curse by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Fronteras del infinito by Lois McMaster Bujold