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12. Mather, Triparadisus, Pt. III; Biblia, Revelation,
passim
; Coelestinus, "Heaven Convers'd withal" (2d series of pagination), 2-162,
passim
.
13. Mather's "Preparatory Meditations Upon The Day of Judgement" was prefixed to Samuel Lee,
A Summons or Warning to the Great Day of Judgment
(Boston, 1692).
 
Page 420
14. Cotton Mather,
Perswasions From The Terror of the Lord
, 20-28; and
Terra Beata
, 18-25. See also, Chapter 14, above. Increase Mather made the same points in his chiliasm.
15. See, for example, Mather's
Theopolis Americana
(Boston, 1710).
16. Mather,
Perswasions From the Terror of the Lord
, 28.
17.
Ibid
. 28-29.
18. Cotton Mather,
The Stone Cut Out of the Mountain
, 2-8; and
passim; Malachi
, 81 and
passim
.
19. Mather,
Things To Be Look'd For
, 50-56.
20. Calef's charge came in
More Wonders of the Invisible World
(London, 1700). The ministers' response, including Cotton Mather's, in Obadiah Gill and others,
Some Few Remarks Upon A Scandalous Book
(Boston, 1701).
21. Cotton Mather's ideas about Satan may be studied in his
Batteries Upon The Kingdom of the Devil
(London, 1695); and
The Armour of Christianity
. The Devil is a prominent figure in the Biblia and in Triparadisus.
22. Mather, Triparadisus, Pt. III, Sect. VIII for the quotation. This section describes the conflagration in great detail. See also Mather's,
Things To Be Look'd For
, 67-68;
A Midnight Cry
, 22-24;
Things For a Distress'd People to Think Upon
(Boston, 1696), 34-37;
The World Alarm'd
, 3-5.
23. Mather, Triparadisus, Pt. III, Sect. VII, X; Biblia, Revelation, 22.
24. Cotton Mather, Psalterium Americahum (Boston, 1718), xxix-xxxi; and Triparadisus, Pt. III, Sect. III.
25. Mather, Triparadisus, Pt. III, Sect. VIII.
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