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36. Increase Mather,
Practical Truths Tending to Promote the Power of Godliness
, 188;
Some Important Truths Concerning Conversion
(Boston, 1684), 24-31;
Ichabod
(Boston, 1702), 31-32;
Practical Truth's Tending To Promote Holiness
(Boston, 1704), 59-97;
Soul-Saving Gospel Truths
(Boston, 1703), 57-59, 154-57;
Awakening Truth's Tending to Conversion
, 39-41;
Practical Truths Plainly Delivered
(Boston, 1718), 16-17.
37. Cotton Mather tells of his father's fears in
Parentator
, 207-8; see too Samuel Sewall,
Diary of Samuel Sewall
, 1674-1729, M.H.S.
Collections
, 5th Series, V-VII (Boston, 1878-82), VII, 325, 326.
38. For a discussion of these works see Chapter 3.
 
Page 382
39. Increase Mather,
Several Sermons
(Boston, 1715), ii;
Practical Truths Plainly Delivered
, "Preface."
40. Increase Mather,
The Mystery of Christ Opened And Applyed
(Boston, 1686), 145.
41. Almost all of Increase Mather's sermons dealing with sin and regeneration employ some of this language. For a representative example see his
Awakening Truth's Tending to Conversion
, 66-78, 82-87, and
passim
.
42. Richard Mather,
A Farewel-Exhortation
(Cambridge, Mass., 1657), 5; Increase Mather,
The Folly of Sinning
(Boston, 1699), 56-57.
43. Increase Mather,
Practical Truths Tending to Promote the Power Godliness
, 160-72, 178-79.
44. Increase Mather,
Pray For the Rising Generation
(3d Impression, Boston, 1685), 191, 196-98. See also Mather's
A Call From Heaven
(Boston, 1679) and his
An Earnest Exhortation to the Children of New England
(Boston, 1711).
45. This rigidity is clear in his "An Apologetical Preface" to John Davenport's
Another Essay For Investigation of the Truth
.
46. These feelings are clearest after the early 1680's.
47. See the
Autobiography
and the Diary for his introspection.
48. Diary, M.H.S.
Proceedings
, XIII, 342.
49. Parts of Maria Mather's papers were reprinted in the Preface to Increase Mather,
A Sermon Concerning Obedience & Resignation To The Will of God
.
51.
Autobiography
, 361-18; Increase Mather,
Practical Truths Tending to Promote the Power of Godliness
, 119-48,
passim
.
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