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Page 419
50.
Ibid
. for the stories. I have studied Mather's theory of the Nishmath-Chagim in Triparadisus, mss. in A.A.S.; and in The Angel of Bethesda, mss. in A.A.S. The relevant chapter has been included in Otho T. Beall and Richard H. Shryock,
Cotton Mather: First Significant Figure in American Medicine
(Baltimore, 1954). And, see also Cotton Mather,
Coheleth
(Boston, 1720).
Chapter 18
1. Cotton Mather,
Successive Generations
(Boston, 1715), 20. And see also,
Tela Praevisa (Boston, 1724)
, 10-11.
2. Cotton Mather, Triparadisus, Pt. II, 18-27, 36-41.
3.
Ibid
. Pt. II, 40-41; and Mather's
Coelestinus
, 145-47 (second series of pagination), and
passim
.
4. Cotton Mather,
Shaking Dispensations
(Boston, 1715), 28.
5. Mather described the end of the world many times; I have relied heavily on his accounts in Problema Theologicum, mss. in A.A.S.; Triparadisus, Parts II and III; and Biblia, especially the commentary on Revelation. The important published works are cited in my notes below.
6. Mather, Triparadisus, Pt. III, Sect. VI, "Signs of the Conflagration Coming On."
7.
Ibid
. Pts. VII, VIII, IX, X. See also the following by Mather:
Things To Be Look'd For (Cambridge
, Mass., 1691);
Perswasions From The Terror of The Lord
(Boston, 1711);
The World Alarm'd
(Boston, 1721);
Terra Beata
(Boston, 1726); Biblia, 2 Peter, Revelation,
passim
.
8. Mather, Triparadisus, Pt. X ("Where to find
Gog
and
Magog,
" appended, 4pp.)
9. See above Chapter 2.
10. Cotton Mather,
A Midnight Cry
(Boston, 1692), 11-25, 34-35, 50-55, and
passim; Successive Generations
, 3-4, 24-28;
Tremenda
(Boston, 1721), 11-19, and
passim
.
11. For Mather's responses to Arminians and Arians, see above, Chapter 16.
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