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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
12 Increase Mather's language here does not prove that he, rather than his son Cotton, is the person referred to as 'Mr. Mather' in an important entry (dated August 19) in The Diary of Samuel ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
