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26.
Ibid
.
27.
Ibid
. Pt. III, Sect. IX.
28.
Ibid
.
29.
Ibid
.
30.
Ibid
. See also, Cotton Mather,
The Soul Upon The Wing
(Boston, 1722), 11-19;
Colestinus
, 149, and
passim
.
31. Mather, Triparadisus, Pt. III, Sect. IX; Problema Theologicum, 73.
32. For this background see Norman Cohn,
The Pursuit of the Millennium
(2d. ed., New York, 1961) and Ernest Lee Tuveson,
Millennium and Utopia
(Berkeley, 1949; New York, 1964).
33.
The Key of the Revelation
(London, 1643) was Joseph Mede's most important eschatological work, and the one that Mather studied most carefully. Mather also seems to have been
Page 421
influenced by Mede's
The Apostasy of the Latter Times
(London, 1641).
34. Biblia, Revelation, 1. Mather copied long passages into the Biblia from Jurieu's
The Accomplishment of the Scripture Prophecies
(London, 1687). In Part I, 28 Jurieu argued that Revelation was nothing but a paraphrase of Daniel, 7.
35. William Whiston,
An Essay On The Revelation of Saint John
(Cambridge, 1706). For the views of Richard Mather and John Cotton, see above, Chapter 2; for Increase Mather, Chapter 10.
36. See above, Chapter 16.
37. On experience, worship, and prophecy see Mather, Biblia, "An Essay For A Further Commentary on the Sacred Scripture;" and
Benedictus
(Boston, 1715), 49-58 (statement by Bridges).
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