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12. In the eighteenth century, Mather usually capitalized all the letters in this word. Its meaning and its implications are discussed throughout much of the remainder of this book.
13. Cotton Mather,
Fair Weather
(Boston, 1692). See especially, 26-33, 37-69, 77-82.
14. Cotton Mather,
Optanda
, 44.
15.
Ibid
. 42-43.
16.
Ibid
. 45. See 45-46 for the other duties summarized in this paragraph.
17. For Mather and Callender, see Cotton Mather,
Brethren Dwelling Togther In Unity
(Boston, 1718).
18. (Boston, 1724).
19.
Ibid
. 58-60; see 59, for the quotation.
20. The
Heads Of Agreement
(London, 1691) establishing the United Brethren has been reprinted in Williston Walker,
The Creeds and Platforms of Congregationalism
(New York, 1893 and Boston, 1960), 455-62. For Cotton Mather's initial reactions see
Blessed Unions
(Boston, 1692). For later accounts see Carl Bridenbaugh,
Mitre and Sceptre
(New York, 1962), 32-34.
21. Cotton Mather,
Blessed Unions
, 57-65.
22. Bridenbaugh,
Mitre And Sceptre
, 33-4 tells the story of the Congregational Presbyterian split, briefly and well.
23. This case can be followed in Cotton Mather's
Diary
, I, 218, 226, 275-76 and in
Collections
4, M.H.S. VII, 119-21. For Bradstreet see Clifford K. Shipton,
Sibley's Harvard Graduates: Biographical Sketches Of Those Who Attended Harvard College
(14 vols. to date, Boston, 1873-1968), IV, 154-57.

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