The Mathers: Three Generations of Puritan Intellectuals, 1596-1728 (73 page)

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39.
Ibid
. 236.
40.
Ibid
. 292 for his discussion of legal and evangelical preaching.
41.
Ibid
. 209-12 for his discussion of 2 Peter 1.8, and 235-36 for the "actings and operations" of grace.
 
Page 379
42.
Ibid
. 265-68, 273; and see
Summe of Certain Sermons, passim
.
43. Summe of Seventie Lectures, 237.
44.
Ibid
. 237-38.
45.
Ibid
. 144-45.
46.
Ibid
. 333.
47.
Ibid
. 329-33, 348.
48.
Ibid
. 24, 297, 333.
49. Richard Mather,
A Farewel-Exhortation
, 7-8.
50. Jonathan Mitchell and Richard Mather,
A Defence of the Answer
(Cambridge, Mass., 1664), 51-52. Mather wrote the second part of this work in which the statements about grace appear.
51. Increase Mather,
Life and Death of . . . Richard Mather
, 27.
Chapter 5
1. Benjamin Colman,
The Prophet's Death Lamented
(Boston, 1723), 16.
2.
Ibid
. 31-37.
3. This paragraph is based on my reading of dozens of funeral sermons. Increase and Cotton Mather preached many.

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