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48. Mather,
India Christiana
, 71.
Chapter 16
1. Robert Boyle,
The Christian Virtuoso
(London, 1690), 54. Mather originally referred to his
The Christian Philosopher
(London, 1721) as the
Christian Virtuoso
. See
Diary
, II, 324, 332, 511. In
Christianus Per Ignem
, he wrote of "the Incomparable
Robert
Boyl" (13).
2. Mather,
Christianus Per Ignem
, 12-14.
3. See
Thoughts For the Day of Rain
(Boston, 1712), 2, where Mather says that scientific study provides a way of doing something toward the restitution of the "Primitive and Paradisian State" and "a little to bring on the State for which the whole creation groaneth!"
4. See above, Chapter 8.
5. For one of Mather's conventional statements on thunder see his
Brontologia Sacra: The Voice Of The Glorious God In The Thunder
(London, 1695), reprinted in the
Magnalia
, Book VI, 14-20.
6. Quoted in Samuel Eliot Morison,
Harvard College In The Seventeenth Century
, I, 216.
7. See
Ibid
. I, 208-51 for an account of science at Harvard.
8. Cotton Mather,
The Wonderful Works of God Commemorated
(Boston, 1690), 26-27.
9.
Ibid
. 25, 26-27.
10. Cotton Mather,
An Elegy On The Much-to-be-deplored Death Of That Never-to-be-forgotten Person, The Reverend Mr. Nathanael Collins
(Boston, 1685), 5, and 5n.
11. Cotton Mather,
Wonderful Works
, 26.

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