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Chapter 6
1. See Chapter 2, above, for a discussion of Puritan mission. Increase Mather,
The Life and Death of . . . Richard Mather
quotes Richard Mather's statements about the founding.
2. The sources cited below in this chapter have stimulated my interpretation. Perry Miller's
New England Mind: From Colony To Province
(Cambridge, Mass., 1953) discusses these matters
brilliantly
.
3. Increase Mather,
A Discourse Concerning The Danger of Apostasy
(Boston, 1679), 65. This sermon is bound with
A Call From Heaven
and its pagination follows consecutively.
 
Page 383
4. Jonathan Mitchell,
Nehemiah On the Wall
(Cambridge, Mass., 1671), 28. Mitchell preached this sermon May 15, 1667.
5. For Winthrop's sense of mission see Edmund S. Morgan,
The Puritan Dilemma
(Boston, 1958), Chapter 6.
6. See above, Chapter 2 and 3.
7. Mitchell,
Nehemiah On the Wall
, 18.
8. Richard Mather,
A Farewel-Exhortation
expresses his mature ideas on New England.
9. The works by Increase Mather, Mitchell, Samuel Dan-forth, William Stoughton, Thomas Shepard, Urian Oakes, Samuel Willard, William Hubbard, and John Higginson, below all carry this implication.
10. Increase Mather,
A Call From Heaven
, "To The Reader."
11. An election day sermon, May 23, 1677, (Boston, 1679).
12.
Ibid
. 55-56.
13.
The Life and Death of . . . Richard Mather
.
14. John Higginson,
The Cause of God and His People In New-England
(Cambridge, Mass., 1663), 11.
15. Besides those already cited in this chapter see Samuel Willard,
The Duty Of A People That Have Renewed Their Covenant With God
(Boston, 1680) and his
The Child's Portion
(Boston, 1684); William Hubbard,
The Happiness Of A People
(Boston, 1676), William Stoughton,
New Englands True Interest
(Cambridge, Mass., 1670); Urian Oakes,
New England Pleaded With
(Cambridge, Mass., 1673),
The Soveraign Efficacy of Divine Providence
(Boston, 1681),
A Seasonable Discourse
(Cambridge, Mass., 1682); Samuel Danforth,
A Brief Recognition of New-Englands Errand Into the Wilderness
(Cambridge, Mass., 1671). Increase Mather's prefaces to the following are also revealing as are the sermons themselves: Thomas Thacher,
A Fast of Gods Chusing
(Boston, 1678); Samuel Torrey,
A Plea For the Life of Dying Religion
(Boston, 1683); Samuel Torrey,
An Exhortation Unto Reformation
(Cambridge, Mass., 1674).
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