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26. Perry Miller,
Errand Into the Wilderness
(Cambridge, Mass., 1956), 12.
27. Mather and Thompson,
An Heart-Melting Exhortation
, 81.
28. John Cotton joined Richard Mather in making this suggestion. See his
An Exposition Upon the Thirteenth Chapter of the Revelation
, where he says to Puritans in New England "Let us help them what we can by Prayer." (262)
Chapter 3
1. Richard Mather and William Thompson,
An Heart-Melting Exhortation
.
2. For the details of Increase's departure for England, see "The Autobiography of Increase Mather," ed. Michael G. Hall,
Proceedings
of the A.A.S. (1961) (Worcester, Mass., 1962).
3. The standard account of the Marian exiles is C. M. Garrett,
The Marian Exiles
(Cambridge, England, 1938).
4. Patrick Collinson,
The Elizabethan Puritan Movement
(Berkeley, 1967), 65-66, and
passim
; J. E. Neale,
Elizabeth I And Her Parliaments, 1559-1581
(New York, 1953), 132-33.
5. The documents of the Admonition controversy have been reprinted in W. H. Frere and C. E. Douglas eds.,
Puritan Manifestoes: A Study of the Origin of the Puritan Revolt
(London, 1907). I have also relied on Collinson, 118-21, and Neale, 295-97. See, too, A. F. Scott Pearson,
Thomas Cartwright and English Puritanism
(London, 1925).
6. Neale,
Elizabeth I And Her Parliaments
, 193-203.
7. On the "prophesyings," see Collinson,
op. cit
., 169-78; on Grindall, Collinson,
op. cit
., 194-98, and Neale,
op. cit
., 371-73. Collinson also summarizes the literature on Martin Marprelate, 391-97; see, too, his account of the classical movement, 323-55 and
passim
. J. E. Neale,
Elizabeth I And Her Parliaments, 1584-1601
(London, 1957) 145-65. 216-32 is also valuable.
 
Page 374
8. Quoted in Perry Miller,
Orthodoxy in Massachusetts, 1630-1650
(Cambridge, Mass., 1933), 26; Miller gives an excellent account of Anglican views on 25-32.
9. Quoted in Henry Dexter,
The Congregationalism of the Last Three Hundred Years
(New York, 1880), 99, fn. 151.
10.
The Works of John Robinson
(3 vols. Boston, 1851), II, 487.
11.
Ibid
. II, 487-88.
12.
Ibid
. II, 295.
13.
Ibid
. II, 293-94.
14. Henry Ainsworth,
Counterpoyson
(Amsterdam, 1608), 35.
15. Robinson,
Works
, II, 490.
16. Ainsworth,
Counterpoyson
, 106, 127-28, 205, 226-27.
17.
Ibid
. and Robinson,
Works
, II, 487-92. See, too, Henry Barrow,
A Brief Discoverie of the False Church
(Dort, 1590), and
A Plaine Refutation of M. G. Giffarde's Reprochful Booke
(?, 1591).
18. For the Separatists' ideas about the Church, see Edmund S. Morgan,
Visible Saints: The History of A Puritan Idea
(New York, 1963), 33-63.
19. (Cambridge, Mass., 1933).
20. Miller,
Orthodoxy
, 84.
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