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5. David Levin reviews a part of Mather's historical reputation in "The Hazing of Cotton Mather: The Creation of a Biographical Personality,"
In Defense of Historical Literature
(New York, 1967). For Morison's comment see his
Harvard College In The Seventeenth Century
(2 vols., Cambridge, Mass., 1936) II, 417. Mather reports the Quakers' jibe in
Little Flocks Guarded Against Grievous Wolves
(Boston, 1691), 3.
6. Cotton Mather's gentility was noted by his friends, but judging from their comments after his death, they were more impressed by his piety and learning. See, for example, Benjamin Colman,
The Holy Walk and Glorious Translation of Blessed Enoch
(Boston, 1728).
7. Most of these external details of his life are in Samuel Mather's
Life Of . . . Cotton Mather
.
8. Mather's family pride is discussed below in this chapter, and in Chapter 19.
9. Cotton Mather,
Magnalia Christi Americana
(London, 1702), Book III, Pt. II, Chapter 20, 125-26.
10.
Ibid
. Book III, Pt. I, Chapter 1, 29.
11.
Ibid
. 21-23.
12. Cotton Mather,
Parentator
(Boston, 1724), 50.
13.
Ibid
. 58. Increase Mather's views on stated councils appear in his
A Disquisition Concerning Ecclesiastical Councils
(Boston, 1716). Cotton reproached Increase for desiring to remain in England in a letter of May 17, 1690, in
Diary
, I, 137-40.
14. Secession from the Second Church (North Church) is discussed in Chapter 19; and the issue of Israel's conversion in Chapter 18.
15. Cotton Mather,
A Companion For Communicants
(Boston, 1690), "Dedication."
16. Cotton Mather,
Diary
, I, 5, 9; II, 483.

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