The Life and Times of Cotton MatherReintroducing Kenneth Silverman's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of the most celebrated of all New England Puritans, at once a sophisticated work which succeeds admirably in presenting a complete portrait of a complex man and a groundbreaking study that accurately portrays Mather and his contemporaries as the first true American rather than European expatriates. |
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Page 144
... tion , Mather published more works than ever before on the urgent need for reformation , aimed at restoring ( if it ever existed ) a special , spiritually minded Puritan community of praying families , children who did not play at the ...
... tion , Mather published more works than ever before on the urgent need for reformation , aimed at restoring ( if it ever existed ) a special , spiritually minded Puritan community of praying families , children who did not play at the ...
Page 153
... tion ago the change in baptismal policy was decried as a woeful declen- sion , but the present generation feel " the happy effects of it , and rising up at the Reformers names , do call them blessed . " Declaring themselves not ...
... tion ago the change in baptismal policy was decried as a woeful declen- sion , but the present generation feel " the happy effects of it , and rising up at the Reformers names , do call them blessed . " Declaring themselves not ...
Page 418
... tion . Now no ambidexter tongue - tied jest for some Oldmixon , he com- manded his congregation to listen to what he said : “ O People Trembling before the Lord ; Hear now my SPEECH , and hearken to all my Words . For Indeed , I may ...
... tion . Now no ambidexter tongue - tied jest for some Oldmixon , he com- manded his congregation to listen to what he said : “ O People Trembling before the Lord ; Hear now my SPEECH , and hearken to all my Words . For Indeed , I may ...
Contents
MR COTTON MATHER | 53 |
THE REVEREND COTTON MATHER | 191 |
SILENCE DOGOOD | 277 |
Copyright | |
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