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5. Thomas Shepard,
The Sincere Convert
(4th ed., London, 1646), 75, 110.
6. Miller,
From Colony To Province
, 53-67, and
passim
is
Page 404
chiefly responsible for the view of Mather. See, too, Miller's "'Preparation For Salvation' In Seventeenth-Century New England,"
Journal of the History of Ideas
(June 1943), IV, 253-86; this article has been reprinted in
Nature's Nation
(Cambridge, 1967).
7. Cotton Mather,
The Call Of The Gospel
(Boston, 1686), 33, 35, 36, 37.
8. Cotton Mather,
The Armour Of Christianity
(Boston, 1704), 140-41. This work was originally given as "Thursday Lectures", June-October 1703. See, too, Cotton Mather,
Balsamum Vulnerarium
(Boston, 1692), 46-47.
9. Cotton Mather, The
Everlasting Gospel. The Gospel of Justification
(Boston, 1700), 32 for the quotation "innate propensity". See, too, 29-45; and
Utilia. Real And Vital Religion Served
(Boston, 1716), 17 for quote on "money."
10. Mather cautions against becoming "listless" in the
Armour of Christianity
, 116. See, too, Mather's
A Conquest Over The Grand Excuse
(Boston, 1706) for a related set of psychological scruples.
11. For Mather's comments on the Devil and preparation, see the
Armour of Christianity
, 126-27. The quotations in the preceding paragraph are from Cotton Mather,
The Christian Cynick
(Boston, 1716), 33, 36. In
Utilia
, 7-8, Mather wrote: "The posture wherein we are to come unto our Savior, is
upon our Knees
. 'Tis in the quality of Petitioners, yea, and of poor ones, too, that we are to sue unto our Saviour, when we
come
unto Him. As a Beggar coming for an Alms, or as a Criminal for his
Life
. . . ."
12. For the quotations, see Cotton Mather,
A Soul Well-Anchored
(Boston, 1712), 12. See also
Conquest Over The Grand Excuse
.
13. Besides Mather's works already cited in the notes to this chapter see his
Faith At Work
(Boston, 1697),
Free-Grace, Maintained and Improved
(Boston, 1706),
The Heavenly Conversation
(Boston, 1710),
The Greatest Concern In The World
(2d ed., New London, 1718),
The Converted Sinner
(Boston, 1724).
14. Miller,
From Colony To Province
, 53-81.
15. See the following by Mather:
The Religious Marriner
(Boston, 1700), 18-20, 23-25;
A Christian At His Calling
, 38-65, and
passim; Lex Mercatoria
(Boston, 1705), 10-39;
Fair Dealing
(Boston, 1716), 13-14, 27.
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