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42. Stoddard expresses these attitudes in much of his work and especially in
The Inexcusableness Of Neglecting The Worship of God
.
43. Stoddard,
Doctrine Of Instituted Churches
, 21.
 
Page 388
44.
Ibid
. 22.
45. Solomon Stoddard,
An Appeal To The Learned
(Boston, 1790), 13.
46. Stoddard makes the distinction in
Ibid
. 9, and in
The In-excusableness Of Neglecting The Worship of God
, 3.
47. Stoddard,
Safety of Appearing
, 109;
The Inexcusableness Of Neglecting The Worship of God
, 4-12.
49. Increase Mather,
The Order Of The Gospel
, 15;
A Dissertation Wherein The Strange Doctrine
, 12-14, and
passim
.
50. Stoddard,
Doctrine Of Instituted Churches
, 18. Stoddard makes these arguments in his other works during the controversy too.
51. Increase Mather,
A Dissertation Wherein The Strange Doctrine
, 81, 82, for the quotations in this paragraph.
52. Increase Mather,
The Order Of The Gospel
, 19.
53.
Ibid
. 19. Mather made the same point in
Awakening Soul-Saving Truths
(Boston, 1720), 47-48.
54. Increase Mather,
The Order Of The Gospel
, 29-33.
55.
Ibid
. 29-30.
56. Increase Mather,
A Dissertation Wherein The Strange Doctrine
, 84. See, too, Increase and Cotton Mather, "A Defense of Evangelical Churches," in John Quick,
The Young Mans Claim Unto The Sacrament
(Boston, 1700), 53-54.
57. Among many discussions of the Lord's Supper see Increase Mather,
Practical Truths Tending To Promote the Power of Godliness
, 119-26; Increase Mather's
The Blessed Hope
(Boston, 1701), 109-10; and the controversial literature issued in the struggle with Stoddard, discussed in this chapter.
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