| 39. Increase Mather, Several Sermons (Boston, 1715), ii; Practical Truths Plainly Delivered , "Preface."
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| 40. Increase Mather, The Mystery of Christ Opened And Applyed (Boston, 1686), 145.
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| 41. Almost all of Increase Mather's sermons dealing with sin and regeneration employ some of this language. For a representative example see his Awakening Truth's Tending to Conversion , 66-78, 82-87, and passim .
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| 42. Richard Mather, A Farewel-Exhortation (Cambridge, Mass., 1657), 5; Increase Mather, The Folly of Sinning (Boston, 1699), 56-57.
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| 43. Increase Mather, Practical Truths Tending to Promote the Power Godliness , 160-72, 178-79.
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| 44. Increase Mather, Pray For the Rising Generation (3d Impression, Boston, 1685), 191, 196-98. See also Mather's A Call From Heaven (Boston, 1679) and his An Earnest Exhortation to the Children of New England (Boston, 1711).
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| 45. This rigidity is clear in his "An Apologetical Preface" to John Davenport's Another Essay For Investigation of the Truth .
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| 46. These feelings are clearest after the early 1680's.
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| 47. See the Autobiography and the Diary for his introspection.
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| 48. Diary, M.H.S. Proceedings , XIII, 342.
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| 49. Parts of Maria Mather's papers were reprinted in the Preface to Increase Mather, A Sermon Concerning Obedience & Resignation To The Will of God .
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| 51. Autobiography , 361-18; Increase Mather, Practical Truths Tending to Promote the Power of Godliness , 119-48, passim .
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