The Mathers: Three Generations of Puritan Intellectuals, 1596-1728 (184 page)

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Authors: Robert Middlekauff

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in Mathers' preaching, 90-91
"Plea for the Churches of New England, A" (by Richard Mather), 50
Poiret, M., 342
Political Fables
(by Cotton Mather), 214
Pool, Matthew, 143
Prayers, Ejaculatory, 206
"Precious Thoughts": of Cotton Mather, 367
Predestination, Doctrine of, 4, 53, 59-61
Preparation, theory of:
defined, 63-64, 232-33;
Cotton Mather rejects language of, 234-35;
and human exertions, 236-37;
and Nathanael Mather, 241

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