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4. The quotations are in Increase Mather,
Discourse Concerning The Danger of Apostasy
, 70, 81. See, too, 69-75, and
passim
.
 
Page 386
5.
Ibid
. 74-75.
6.
Ibid
. 79.
7. Increase Mather did not make these points explicitly, and in fact as late as 1702 in an election sermon dedicated to Joseph Dudley
The Excellency of A Publick Spirit (Boston
, 1702) seems to indicate that he still trusted the State. But the old hope and trust were not there, and, of course, the Mathers soon broke with Dudley.
8. All the jeremiads cited above and in Chapter 6 appeal to sinners as well as saints.
9. (London, 1641).
10.
Ibid
. 71, 80.
11.
Ibid
. 71-79.
12. The jeremiads cited above and in Chapter 6 reveal this direction in Mather's thought. See especially the
Discourse Concerning The Danger Of Apostasy
.
13. For the founders' ideas on ecclesiastical polity see Chapter 3. And see, too, Edmund S. Morgan,
Visible Saints
(New York, 1963), Chapters 1-4.
14. Increase Mather,
The Order Of The Gospel
, 14-17 and
passim
. The jeremiads also frequently make these same points.
15.
Ibid
. 18.
16. (Cambridge, Mass., 1663).
17.
Ibid. passim
.

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