 | 1. For the jeremiad see above, Chapters 6 and 7.
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| 2. Cotton Mather,
Magnalia Christi Americana
, "General Introduction," Sect. 3.
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| 3. Cotton Mather used typology more later in his life; his style was always heavily metaphorical, in part because he believed that God employed "certain Metaphors, for the use of our understandings."
Unum Necessarium
(Boston, 1693), 106.
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| 4. See above, Chapters 2 and 3.
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| 5. Cotton Mather,
Magnalia
, Book I, Introduction, Ch. 4, 15, 17, for the quotations.
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| 6. Mather made these points, and used these terms, in many sermons. He also sometimes argued that a faithful remnant served the land in temporal affairs. See, for example,
Pascentius
(Boston, 1714), 32.
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| 7. For examples of these views see the following by Cotton Mather:
Winter-Meditations
(Boston, 1693);
The Short History of New-England
(Boston, 1694);
American Tears Upon The Ruines Of The Greek Churches
(Boston, 1701);
The Good Old Way
(Boston, 1706);
Pascentius
.
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| 8. For a typical statement of the 1690's (others are cited later in this chapter) see
Optanda
(Boston, 1692), 43-44. In
Christianus Per Ignem
(Boston, 1702), 151, Mather declared "I never
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| much admired, the violent pressing of
Uniformity
; but there may be
Unity
without Uniformity."
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| 9. Cotton Mather,
Winter-Meditations
49-50.
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| 10. The
Political Fables
, written around 1692, circulated in manuscript in Mather's lifetime. For a modern edition see Kenneth B. Murdock ed.,
Selections From Cotton Mather
(New York, 1926), 363-71.
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| 11. Miller,
From Colony To Province
, 170-71.
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