 | 24.
Autobiography
, 288-89.
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| 25.
Ibid
. 288-89.
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| 26.
Ibid
. 290-97; 313-21, 340-41, 351-52; Murdock,
Increase Mather
, Chapters 12-16.
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| 27. Stoddard is discussed below in Chapter 7; for Mather's feelings about Harvard see the
Autobiography
, 351-52. There is an excellent account of his Harvard Presidency in Samuel Eliot Morison,
Harvard College In The Seventeenth Century
(2 vols., Cambridge, Mass., 1936), II, 472-537.
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| 28. Mather quoting his Diary, December 30, 1672 in
Autobiography
, 299.
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| 29.
Ibid
. 299-300; Cotton Mather,
Parentator
, 34.
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| 30.
Autobiography
, 303-4.
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| 31.
Ibid
.
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| 32. Increase Mather may have fulfilled his pastoral functions more carefully before the middle 1680's than I have indicated. His Diary, MHS
Proceedings
, XIII, records many visits to church members. See 341 345, 363, 365, for example. His preaching is discussed below and in Chapter 9.
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| 33. Increase Mather,
Five Sermons on Several Subjects
(Boston, 1719), 3. Increase wrote "Coyned," which I have rendered "coined."
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| 34. William Perkins,
A Graine of Mustard-Seed
(London, 1621), 48-52. See, too, Perkins' Deaths Knell (11th ed., London ?, 1629).
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| 35. Examples of these ideas may be found in the following by Increase Mather:
The Greatest Sinners Exhorted and Encouraged to Come to Christ
(Boston, 1686), 119 (eating and sleeping with one's attention on God);
Practical Truths Tending to Promote the Power of Godliness
(Boston, 1682),
passim; Sermons Wherein Those Eight Characters
(Boston, 1718),
passim
.
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