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Chapter 12
1. For the jeremiad see above, Chapters 6 and 7.
2. Cotton Mather,
Magnalia Christi Americana
, "General Introduction," Sect. 3.
3. Cotton Mather used typology more later in his life; his style was always heavily metaphorical, in part because he believed that God employed "certain Metaphors, for the use of our understandings."
Unum Necessarium
(Boston, 1693), 106.
4. See above, Chapters 2 and 3.
5. Cotton Mather,
Magnalia
, Book I, Introduction, Ch. 4, 15, 17, for the quotations.
6. Mather made these points, and used these terms, in many sermons. He also sometimes argued that a faithful remnant served the land in temporal affairs. See, for example,
Pascentius
(Boston, 1714), 32.
7. For examples of these views see the following by Cotton Mather:
Winter-Meditations
(Boston, 1693);
The Short History of New-England
(Boston, 1694);
American Tears Upon The Ruines Of The Greek Churches
(Boston, 1701);
The Good Old Way
(Boston, 1706);
Pascentius
.
8. For a typical statement of the 1690's (others are cited later in this chapter) see
Optanda
(Boston, 1692), 43-44. In
Christianus Per Ignem
(Boston, 1702), 151, Mather declared "I never
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much admired, the violent pressing of
Uniformity
; but there may be
Unity
without Uniformity."
9. Cotton Mather,
Winter-Meditations
49-50.
10. The
Political Fables
, written around 1692, circulated in manuscript in Mather's lifetime. For a modern edition see Kenneth B. Murdock ed.,
Selections From Cotton Mather
(New York, 1926), 363-71.
11. Miller,
From Colony To Province
, 170-71.

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