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25.
Life and Death
, 7.
26. For Richard's uneasiness about his conformity see
Ibid
. 7-8.
27.
Ibid
. 8.
 
Page 371
28.
Ibid
. 8-9.
29.
Ibid
. 31.
30.
Ibid
. 10-11.
31. Richard's Journal has been printed in Alexander Young ed.,
Chronicles of the First Planters of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay
(Boston, 1845), 445-81. This quotation is on 477; those in the remainder of this chapter appear on 477-78, 460, and 474.
Chapter 2
1. Alexander Young ed.,
Chronicles of the First Planters of . . . Massachusetts
, 447.
2. Quoted in Increase Mather,
Life and Death of . . . Richard Mather
, 11.
3. Quotations from
Ibid
. 12, 17. Increase seems to print the arguments from a manuscript left by Richard.
4.
Ibid
. 17 and
passim
.
5.
Ibid
. 17-18. The notion of England as the chosen nation of God has been explored in William Haller,
The Elect Nation: The Meaning and Relevance of Foxe's
Book of Martyrs (New York, 1963).
6. (7th ed., London, 1615). The work has four parts, published separately, each with its own pagination. Richard cited most frequently
The Third Part of the True Watch . . . Taken Out of the Vision of Ezekiel, Chapter 9
(London, 1622).
7. Brinsley,
The Third Part of the True Watch, passim
, and especially 216-27.
8.
Ibid
. 216.
9.
Ibid
. 219.

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