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12. Cotton Mather,
Winter-Meditations
, 20;
Wonderful Works
, 25.

13. I have read it in Boyle's
Works
(6 vols., London, 1772).

Page 413

14. Boyle,
Works
, II, 20, 21, and
passim
.

15. Cotton Mather, Biblia Americana, Genesis, 1; mss. in M.H.S. There is no reliable pagination in this work (in fact few pages are numbered). I will refer to the biblical chapter where Mather's commentary is found.

16. Mather betrays this uneasiness even in his early works. Boyle may not have felt it.

17. See, for example,
Christianus Per Ignem
, 7.

18. Mather's late work, including the
Christian Philosopher
, emphasizes these propositions even more than the early.

19. Biblia, Genesis, 1, 7, 8, and
passim
; Matthew, 12 and
passim
. Portions of Mather's commentary were written in 1699; still others in 1702 and 1706.

20. Biblia, Genesis, 1, 7, and
passim
.

21. The
Dictionary of National Biography
gives the essential biographical information about Bentley and Whiston. Julius H. Tuttle, "William Whiston and Cotton Mather,"
Pub. Col. Soc. Mass
., XIII, 197-204, discusses briefly a theological dispute between Mather and Whiston.

22. Biblia, Genesis, 1.

23.
Ibid
.

24.
Ibid
.

25. Mather discussed briefly Newton's
Optics
(1704) in the "Preface" to
Thoughts For The Day Of Rain
.

26. Biblia, Genesis, 1.

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