The Mathers: Three Generations of Puritan Intellectuals, 1596-1728 (72 page)

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Authors: Robert Middlekauff

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26. Summe of Seventie Lectures, 89.
27.
Ibid
. 88-91.
28.
Ibid
. 128-31. 249-52.
29.
Ibid
. 104.
30.
Ibid
. 104, 105.
31.
Ibid
. 105.
32. All major Puritan writers shared this view.
33. Summe of Seventie Lectures, 105-10.
34.
Ibid
. 255-73, and
passim
.
35.
Ibid
. 329-33.
36. In urging temperance upon Dorchester, Mather once said that God punished sexual offences with "monstrous births" and "leprous children."
Ibid
. 140.
37.
Ibid
. 241
38.
Ibid
. 241; he makes this point often in these sermons.

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