The Mathers: Three Generations of Puritan Intellectuals, 1596-1728 (89 page)

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8. Mather's Christology appears in almost all his sermons after 1700 and in many before. See
The Mystery of Christ
(Boston, 1686);
Meditations On The Glory Of The Lord Jesus Christ
(Boston, 1705).
9. Increase Mather,
Several Sermons
(Boston, 1715), 1-22, 28-34.
10. The quotations are, in order, from Increase Mather,
Mystery of Christ
, 145, 83, 31.
11.
Ibid
. 46.
12. Increase Mather,
Meditations On The Glory Of . . . Christ
, 42-67.
13. Increase Mather,
Mystery of Christ
, 131-32;
Meditations On The Glory Of . . . Christ
, 45-60.
14. For the quotations, in order, see Increase Mather,
Sermons Wherein Those Eight Characters
, 24;
A Plain Discourse Shewing Who Shall, and Who Shall Not Enter Into The Kingdom Of Heaven
(Boston, 1713), 12-13, 104. See also 88-91, 105-6.
15. Increase Mather,
Five Sermons On Several Subjects
, 36-37. See also 38-45.
16. Increase Mather,
A Plain Discourse
, 90-91, 106;
Soul-Saving Gospel Truths
, 5.
17.
Five Sermons
, 38-45, 61-65;
Awakening Truth's Tending To Conversion, passim
; and see also
Sermons Wherein Those Eight Characters
. The phrase "sermon-sick" appears in
A Plain Discourse
, 55, and in many other sermons.
18.
Ibid
. and most of the sermons cited in this chapter.
19. Increase Mather,
A Discourse Concerning the Existence and Omniscience of God
(Boston, 1716), Preface.

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