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36.
Diary For
. . . 1712, 86, 101, 113; the four-page English letter is reproduced in facsimile between pages 114 and 119 of the
Diary For
. . . 1712. The quotation is from 4.

37. Mather,
Bonifacius
(Levin, ed.), 96.

38.
Faithful Monitor
, 3, and
passim
.

39. This is especially clear in
Bonifacius
, but also in all of Mather's pietistic writings.

40. The English writer Josiah Woodward had prescribed an ecumenical function for the societies too, but as Bahlman points out, Woodward's union was "within the Church rather than toleration and peace among different sects."
Moral Revolution
, 81.

41. Cotton Mather to Bartholomew Ziegenbalgh, Dec. 31,

Page 412

1717, in Cotton Mather,
India Christiana
(Boston, 1721), 66 (for the full letter, 62-74).

42.
Ibid
. 64, and
passim
.

43.
Diary
, II, 202.

44. See above, Chapter 14.

45.
Diary
, II, 667, 673.

46. Mather,
India Christiana
, 57-60, 69-74.

47. I have tried to establish this point about Mather in Chapter 11.