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Notes ABBREVIATIONS AAS, American Antiquarian Society CSM, Colonial Society of Massachusetts MHS, Massachusetts Historical Society i. The Legacy, Birth, and Education of a Puritan i. Cotton Mather, Parentator. Memoirs of Remarkables in the Life and Death of the Ever-Memorable Dr. Increase Mather (Boston, 1724), 5. This is Cotton Mather's biography of his father, published a year after IncreaseMather's death and three years before his own. Cotton imitated his father, who wrote a biography of his father. Cotton's own son, Samuel, wrote his life in 1729. It was the fourth family biography and the third generation to writeone. 2. Increase Mather, The Life and Death of that Reverend Man of God, Mr. Richard Mather (Cambridge, 1670). Facsimileedition, William J. Scheick, ed. (Bainbridge , N.Y.: York-MailPrint, Inc., 1974), 29-33. 3. Charles E. Hambrick-Stowe, The Practice of Piety. Puritan Devotional Discipline in Seventeenth-Century New England (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1982), 27. 4. PerryMiller, "Marrow of Puritan Divinity," in Errand into theWilderness (Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1956; N.Y.: Harper & Row, 1964), 82. See also Norman Petit, The Heart Prepared: Grace and Conversion in Puritan Spiritual Life (New Haven: Yale UniversityPress, 1966), 78 — 79. 5. Hambrick-Stowe, Practice of Piety, 43. 6. Thomas Shepard, quoted in Ibid. Shepard, who died early at age 44, was among the half-dozen ministers who most directly shaped Massachusetts religious culture in Richard Mather's time. 7. Ibid., 44. 8. Increase Mather, Life and Death, 34. 9. Ibid., 35. 10. Ibid., 36 — 37. 11. Ibid., 37—38. Stephen Foster, "English Puritanism and the Progress of New England Institutions, 1630—1660," in Saints and Revolutionaries. Essays on Early American History, ed. by David D. Hall, John M. Murrin, and Thad W. Tate(N.Y: W. W. Norton, 1984), 22. [366 Notes to Pages 10—22 12. For example, Thomas Shepard's account in Michael McGiffert, ed., God's Plot: the Paradox of Puritan Piety, Being the Autobiography andJournal of Thomas Shepard (Amherst: Universityof Massachusetts Press, 1972), 49. 13. Increase Mather, Life andDeath, 42. 14. John Winthrop, "Reasons to be Considered and Objections with Answers," quoted in Edmund Morgan, ed., Founding of Massachusetts (N.Y.: BobbsMerrill , 1964), 175—182. 15. Richard Mather, "Arguments tending to prove the Removing from OldEngland toNew," in Increase Mather, Life and Death, 43 — 54. 16. See David D. Hall, "Understanding the Puritans," in Herbert J. Bass, ed., State of American History (Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1970), 330 — 349. 17. Winthrop, "A Modell of Christian Charity," in Morgan, ed., Founding of Massachusetts , 190— 204. 18. Hambrick-Stowe, Practice of Piety, 48. 19. Ibid., 49. 20. Ibid., 100. 21. Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, trans, by Talcott Parsons, (N.Y.: Scribner'sSons, 1930, 1958), 105-121. 22. Cambridge Platform, in Williston Walker, Creeds and Platforms of Congregationalism (N.Y.: Scribner's Sons, 1893; Boston: Pilgrim Press, 1960), 204. 23. Richard Barry Burg, Richard Mather of Dorchester (Louisville: University of Kentucky Press, 1976), 26—27. 24. John Norton, Answer to the Whole Set of Questions of the Celebrated Mr. William Apollonius (London, 1648), translated by Douglas Horton (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1958). 25. William Wood, New-England's Prospect (London, 1634), The English Experience , No. 68 (N.Y: Da Capo Press, 1968), 37. 26. Quoted in Edmund Morgan, Visible Saints. The History ofa Puritan Idea (N.Y.: New York University Press, 1963), 100. Burg, Richard Mather, 33 —34. Foster , "English Puritanism," 19— 20. 27. Morgan, Visible Saints, 80-108. 28. Increase Mather, Autobiography, Michael G. Hall, ed. (Worcester, Mass.: American Antiquarian Society, 1962), 278. 29. Here, as elsewhere below, biographical facts of the Mather family are pieced together from a variety of sources, of which the most important are, Increase Mather, Life and Death;Cotton Mather, Parentator; Increase Mather, Autobiography ; Increase Mather's family Bible record, printed in Chandler Robbins, History of theSecondChurch, orOldNorth in Boston (Boston, 1852), 215; Increase Mather diaries; Samuel G. Drake, "Pedigree of the Family of Mather," in Cotton Mather, MagnaliaChristi Americana (London, 1702), Samuel G. Drake, ed., 2 vols. (Hartford, Conn., 1853); John S. Sibley, Biographical Sketches of Graduates of Harvard University, 3 vols. (Cambridge, 1873—1885); Clifford K. Shipton, Biographical Sketches of Those Who Attended Harvard College, Sibley's Harvard Graduates, vols. 4, 5, and 6 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1933-1942). 30. IncreaseMather, Life and Death, 30—31. [34.230.35.103] Project MUSE (2024-03-28 22:25 GMT) Notes to Pages 22—43 367] 31...