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  1. www.enotes.com › topics › increase-matherIncrease Mather Biography - eNotes.com

    Increase Mather was born June 21, 1639, in the Dorchester, Massachusetts, parsonage of his father, Richard Mather. His mother, née Katharine Hoult, was a “godly and prudent maid” whose family ...

  2. www.enotes.com › topics › increase-matherIncrease Mather Criticism: Dolefull Witchcraft - Kenneth Ballard...

    Aug 12, 2024 · The book appeared when Increase Mather was opposed by many on grounds other than his views on witches, and such effect as it had in weakening his influence it owed, probably, not to any superior ...

  3. www.enotes.com › topics › increase-matherCriticism: Increase Mather - Williston Walker - eNotes.com

    Aug 12, 2024 · SOURCE: "Increase Mather," in Ten New England Leaders, Silver, Burnett and Company, 1901, pp. 175-213. [In the following excerpt, Walker offers an overview of Mather's life, paying particular ...

  4. www.enotes.com › topics › increase-matherIncrease Mather Criticism: Introduction - eNotes.com

    Increase Mather was a highly influential Puritan minister in seventeenth-century Massachusetts. The Puritans were a branch of the Congregationalist Church, more progressive than Presbyterians but ...

  5. www.enotes.com › topics › increase-matherCriticism: Increase Mather's New Jerusalem: Millennialism in Late...

    Aug 12, 2024 · SOURCE: "Increase Mather's New Jerusalem: Millennialism in Late Seventeenth-Century New England," in Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, Vol. 87, 1978, pp. 343-408. [In the following ...

  6. www.enotes.com › topics › increase-matherIncrease Mather Anonymity and Art in the Life and Death of That...

    Aug 12, 2024 · On one level, of course, the motif originates from the fact that Increase is Richard Mather's son; but on another, deeper level this father imagery points beyond a solely natural or secular sense ...

  7. www.enotes.com › topics › increase-matherIncrease Mather - eNotes.com

    Aug 12, 2024 · SOURCE: "Science and Pseudoscience," in Increase Mather, Twayne Publishers, Inc., 1974, pp. 76-106. [In the following excerpt, Lowance analyzes Mather's attempts to combine scientific knowledge ...

  8. www.enotes.com › topics › increase-matherIncrease Mather Criticism: The Salem Witchcraft Prosecutions: The...

    Aug 12, 2024 · Increase Mather's Cases of Conscience was cited as part of the justification for reversing the decision of the court. See Taylor, Witchcraft Delusion , pp. 62-78. 76 Burr, Narratives , pp. 383-84 ...

  9. www.enotes.com › topics › increase-matherIncrease Mather Criticism: The Mathers - eNotes.com

    Aug 12, 2024 · Increase Mather's introductory declaration to this effect might be taken for any of a dozen others: "I have thought that the relation of what the Lord has done for your Father, and the wonderfull ...

  10. www.enotes.com › topics › increase-matherIncrease Mather Criticism: The Mather Dynasty - eNotes.com

    Aug 12, 2024 · 8 Murdock, Increase Mather, pp. 138-139. 9 See pp. 294-295, where he seeks unsuccessfully to refute the position taken by J. T. Adams. 10 See Murdock, Increase Mather, pp. 125-127.