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| | COTTON MATHER - LoveToKnow Article on COTTON MATHER |
 | | Cotton Mathers Soil, SAMUEL MATHER (1706-1785), also a clergyman, graduated at Harvard hi 1723, was pastor of the North Church, Boston, from 1732 to 1742, when, owing to a dispute among his congregation over revivals, he resigned to take charge of a church established for him in North Bennett Street. | | | Among his works are The Life of Cotton Mather (1729); An Apology for the Liberties of the Churches in New England (1738), and A merica Known to the Ancients (1773). | | | He believed strongly in the power of prayer and repeatedly had assurances that his prayers were heard; and when he was disappointed by non-fulfilment his grief and depression were terrible. |
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http://www.1911ency.org/M/MA/MATHER_COTTON.htm
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| | Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Cotton Mather |
| | Highly influential due to his prolific writing, Mather was a force to be reckoned with in secular as well as spiritual matters. | | | Cotton Mather was the son of influential minister Increase Mather. | | | It was not until his father's death in 1723 that Mather assumed full responsibilities as Pastor at the Church. |
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| | {M-Q}: Positive Atheism's Big List of Scary Quotations |
| | For any to deny the being of a Devil must be from ignorance or profaneness worse than diabolical. | | | -- Cotton Mather, explaining that you can come to believe the deeper mysteries and other unverifiable aspects of the Christian religion with or without threats of eternal punishment in the Christian Hell for not believing what the authorities tell you to believe, quoted from George Seldes, ed., The Great Thoughts (1985) |
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http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/quotes/scar_m.htm
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| | Mather, Cotton on Encyclopedia.com |
| | "The Captive Exile Hasteth": Increase Mather, Meditation, and Authority.(Increase Mather, colonist who lived in the 17th century) | | | He was ordained (1685) and became a colleague of his father at North Church, Boston, serving as pastor in his father's absences and after his father's death (1723). | | | His most read book was the The Great Works of Christ in America (1702), a recount of the history of New |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/M/Mather-C1.asp
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| | Mather, Cotton - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Mather, Cotton |
| | Mather appears to have supported the Salem witch-hunts through his books, sermons, and influence as a religious leader. | | | This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional. | | | He was a Puritan minister in Boston, Massachusetts, and wrote over 400 works of history, science, annals, and theology, including Magnalia Christi Americana/The Great Works of Christ in America (1702), a vast compendium of early New England history and experience. |
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http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/Mather,+Cotton
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| | Cotton Mather |
| | The Mather Family Library at the American Antiquarian Society |
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http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/mather.htm
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