The Mathers: Three Generations of Puritan Intellectuals, 1596-1728 (155 page)

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Authors: Robert Middlekauff

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recommends activity, 191;
warns against lusts, 191;
fasts, 192;
writes life of Richard Mather, 195;
estimate of John Cotton, 195-96;
influence of Increase Mather on, 196-98;
sense of sin of, 198;
endures anxiety, 198-99;
understands youth, 199-200;
self-knowledge of, 200-201;
attitude toward children, 201-2;
attitude toward sex, 202-4;
religious experience of, 204-7;
character of, 207-8;

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