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Page 426
26.
Ibid
. II, 730, 736-38, 748-49 (the quotations).
27.
Ibid
. II, 750-51.
28.
Ibid
. II, 774; for Mather's references to Boston,
Ibid
. II, 655, 656; Samuel Mather,
The Life of the Very Reverend and Learned Cotton Mather
(1729), 65.
29.
Diary
, II, 194, 196, 236, 246, 252, 474, 476, 520, 530, 539, 579, 586, 629, 652, all entries on his concern for his father; and for his interest in his children, see the following examples, 134, 136, 151, 155, 205, 207, 245, 248, 249, 251, 255-61, 266 357, 362, 379, 387, 450, 484, 525, 578.
30.
Ibid
. 181, 182, 188, 191, 194, 195 ("greatly wounded"), and
passim
.
31.
An Account of the Reasons Why a Considerable Number, . . ., Belonging to the New-North . . ., Could Not Consent to Mr. Peter Thacher's Ordination
(Boston, 1720), Preface, for the first quotation; Increase Mather,
A Further Testimony Against The Scandalous Proceedings of the New North Church
(Boston, 1720), 2. See also Increase Mather,
A Seasonable Testimony To Good Order In the Churches
(Boston, 1720); Peter Thacher and John Webb,
A Brief Declaration
(Boston, 1720); Peter Thacher
A Vindication of the New-North
(Boston, 1720).
32. Cotton Mather,
A Vision In The Temple
(Boston, 1721).
33. Samuel Sewall,
Diary
, 5th Ser. M.H.S.
Collections
, VII, 325, 326; Murdock,
Increase Mather
, 387-88.
34. Cotton Mather,
Parentator
. The book contains a great deal of information about Increase Mather's piety and worship.
35.
Diary
, II, 753-54, 755-57, 763, 764-65.
36.
Ibid
. II, 599-600, 703, 714, 739, 745, and
passim
. See, too, Holmes,
Cotton Mather
, III, 1134.
37. Mather,
Diary
, II, 583-91,
passim
.
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