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Page 385
30.
Ibid
. 61. (The pagination of the printed tract is incorrect; I have corrected it.)
31.
Ibid
. 61.
32. See, for example,
Ichabod
and works cited in note 22.
33.
Ibid
. and works in notes 16 and 22.
34. Increase Mather,
An Historical Discourse Concerning The Prevalency of Prayer
(Boston, 1677), 11. And see Mather's
Brief History of the Wart
and his
A Relation Of The Troubles
(Boston, 1677).
35. Perry Miller,
From Colony To Province
, Chapter 11 and
passim; Increase Mather, A Narrative of the Miseries of New England
(London, 1688), in
Andros Tracts
, II (Boston, 1869), 1-11; Increase Mather,
New England Vindicated
(London, May 1689), in
Andros Tracts
, II, 111-23; Increase Mather,
A Further Vindication
(probably London, 1689), reprinted in Thomas J. Holmes,
Increase Mather: A Bibliography
I, 273-74.
36. The later preaching, especially
Several Sermons
, and
Five Sermons
reveal some of Mather's uncertainty.
37.
Discourse Concerning The Danger of Apostasy
, 57-61, and
passim
.
38. Mather's
The Great Blessing of Primitive Counsellours
(Boston, 1693) reveals much of his attitude in the 1690's.
Chapter 7
1. John Higginson,
The Cause Of God And His People In New-England
, 11; William Stoughton,
New-Englands True Interest
, 9-10; Jonathan Mitchell,
Nehemiah On the Wall
, 26; Samuel Danforth,
A Brief Recognition Of New-Englands Errand Into The Wilderness
, 23 and
passim
; Increase Mather,
The Day of Trouble Is Near
(Cambridge, Mass., 1674).
2. There were, of course, appeals to groups and interests in the first jeremiads, but the burden of these early appeals was to the whole people, the people whom God has "culled out," as Increase Mather said in the
Day of Trouble
, 27. In part, the difference in the later jeremiads is one of tone and emphasis, as I have attempted to show.
3. (Boston, 1679).
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