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| | Increase Mather - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | In order to gain full church membership, one had to be recognized by the church as a "visible saint," a person who was known to be saved. | | | The revulsion of feeling after the Salem witch trials undermined his authority greatly, and Roberts Calef's More Wonders of the Spiritual World (1700) was a personal blow to him as well as to his son. | | | In opposition to Stoddard, Mather held to the orthodox Puritan position, and therefore wished to exclude many more from this. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Increase_Mather
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| | Increase Mather saw in this a blow to the autonomy of every congregation, an autonomy that had been at the heart of the Congregational church since its inception. | | | Mather's brother Nathaniel was already living in London and active in a movement to unite the Presbyterian and Congregational ministries. | | | Mather forced them out in 1698, and they and their friends then founded the Brattle Street Church in Boston as a clear alternative to the traditional Congregational churches. |
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http://www.pragmatism.org/american/mather_increase.htm
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| | [EMLS 1.3 (December 1995): 4.1-34] Shifting Signs: Increase Mather and the Comets of 1680 and 1682 |
| | Mather interprets the presence of the comet as a visible utterance of God's divine language, "yea the voice of the almighty" (23), yet it is a voice that only the Puritan faithful may hear. | | | Mather intimates that this is accomplished only by believing the divine word of the scripture. | | | Mather's interpretation of the comet of 1682 proposes the heavenly sign to be a distinct component of this significant religious experience indicative of divine and patient interaction: "God seems to intimate that there are Great changes hastening upon the world. |
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| | Mather was also uneasy about the effects of the Halfway Covenant, which allowed unbelieving adults the privilege of having their children baptized into the church. | | | Increase was brought up in a household where religion was just as much a part of life as food and drink. | | | In 1664, Increase was invited to preach at the Old North Church in Boston, one of the most prestigious places of worship in the whole colony. |
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http://www.hillsdale.edu/academics/downloads/andrewmitchellincreasebio_1.doc
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| | Still, Increase Mather was a dominant figure and the leading voice for orthodox Calvinism in an era when rationalism was beginning to undermine the Bay Colony's religious foundations. | | | For years, Cotton Mather sought New England's spiritual awakening, praying that God would again pour out his Spirit on its churches and communities. | | | In 1664 Increase was called to the pastorate of Boston's Second ("Old North") Church, where he remained until his death. |
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http://www.spurgeon.org/~phil/mather/mathers.txt
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| | Literary Encyclopedia: Increase Mather |
| | Biographers such as Mason Lowance agree that Increase Mather should “command respect as a rigorous intellectual, as a principled Christian and Calvinist theologian, as a compulsive defender of the orthodox faith by pen and pulpit” (Increase Mather, 1974). | | | A member of an illustrious lineage of ministers, and a prominent public figure, Mather cultivated an identity as minister of God, preacher of orthodoxy, and prolific writer of theological doctrine and Providential history. | | | Like other Puritan ministers of his era, Increase’s father Richard had fled England when Archbishop Laud of the Anglican Church had investigated him for his non-conformist beliefs and subsequently prevented him from preaching. |
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http://www.literaryencyclopedia.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=2985
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| | Walker, Services of the Mathers in New England Religious Development |
| | In doctrine and polity alike Increase Mather was a conservative. | | | The more important, covering with its thirty-two questions nearly the whole practice of the Congregational churches on this side of the ocean, was replied to by Richard Mather, who, though he was one of the later comers among the ministry of these new churches, came forward as the fullest expounder of their methods. | | | The first of these was an exposition of that fundamental basis of the Congregational structure, the church-covenant,—the agreement into which a believer enters with his God and with his fellow-disciples, and which according to Congregational thinking is the essential bond of union which transforms a company of Christians into a church. |
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| | Heath Anthology of American LiteratureCotton Mather - Author Page |
| | Mather used both the witch trials and the Indian wars to generate a narrative that would encourage a spiritual awakening in the face of widespread religious complacency. | | | Neither the natural nor the supernatural world, however, interested Mather as much as the lives of men, especially his forebears who had founded New England as a celestial empire. | | | From the 1660s, a decade in which the Bay Colony buried the majority of its founding generations, Puritan ministers in the second and third generations began to see omens of spiritual decline, clear signs of a gradual abatement of religious fervor and a withdrawing of God’s favor. |
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| | The horizons of the New England imagination grew narrow, and Puritan anthropomorphism unconsciously reduced the God of the Hebrew prophets to the compass of a village priest, clothed in stock and gown, and endowed with the intellect of a parish beadle. | | | They had installed as minister a man excommunicated from the Congregational church, and, when their meeting-house was closed to them, they persisted in assembling publicly before its barred doors rather than worship unmolested in a private house, To Mather these were attacks upon the true faith, and manifest disturbances of the civil peace. | | | Not a great man, as the world reckons greatness, Increase Mather may scarcely be accounted a great Puritan. |
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| | Cotton Mather - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Highly-influential due to his prolific writing, Mather was a force to be reckoned with in secular, as well as in spiritual matters. | | | After completing his post-graduate work, he joined his father as assistant Pastor of Boston's original North Church (not to be confused with the Anglican/Episcopal Old North Church). | | | It was not until his father's death, in 1723 that Mather assumed full responsibilities as Pastor at the Church. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton_Mather
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| | Portrait of Increase Mather |
| | Pastor of North Church, Boston, first president of Harvard College, intermediary with Congregational churches and James II, author of treatises on Indians and noted sermons, father of Cotton Mather. |
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| | The Mather Tomb, where Increase Mather and Cotton Mather Rest |
| | Increase Mather was the son of Richard Mather, and pastor of North Church from 1664 until his death in 1723 (the original North Church was later torn down by the British in 1775). | | | Cotton Mather was the son of Increase Mather, and minister with his father at North Church. | | | The Mather Tomb, where Increase Mather and Cotton Mather Rest |
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| | Yet a spiritual vocation was not a surprise -“Four out of five surviving sons of the Mathers would become ministers of the Gospel.” | | | All the colonies were being notified by letter of the new king, but Mather managed to prevent such a letter from being sent to Governor Andros. | | | Obviously, when addressing the king and royal officials, there were several things Mather would not have written. |
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| | Colonial Leaders: Increase Mather - - Christianbook.com |
| | Increase devoted much of his life to preserving freedom of religion. | | | Many times Increase found his freedom to worship nearly taken away. | | | The Church of England threatened Puritans in Britain, and some people wanted to do the same in the colonies. |
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| | Mather, Increase on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Cotton Mather, his son and colleague, cooperated with him in many of the affairs that occupied their busy lives. | | | "The Captive Exile Hasteth": Increase Mather, Meditation, and Authority.(Increase Mather, colonist who lived in the 17th century) | | | After returning to Massachusetts (1661), he became (1664) pastor of North Church, Boston, and retained that position through his life. |
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| | increase mather - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library |
| | Speaking of biography in general, Increase Mather notes that the Bibles "exemplary lives" have a predominantly "historical" purpose. | | | "Now that Bt is in a very...is more troubling," wonders Mather, "what they come up with next...flounder gene into a tomato to increase the fruits frost-tolerance... | | | "Let us be thankful to God," he says, that...justly done by me," said the man, as quoted by the Rev. Mather. |
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http://www.questia.com/search/increase-mather
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| | Increase Mather |
| | Known for his conservatism in religious matters, Mather opposed clergymen who were trying to liberalize Puritan doctrine and church organization. | | | He accepted with the condition that he also be allowed to continue preaching at North Church. | | | Mather spent four years in London between 1688 and 1692 pleading the cause of his colony before William III. |
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http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mather/Mather/Stories/Increase.htm
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| | Biography of Increase Mather |
| | Although Increase was one of the few ministers to associate sexual activity with witchcraft, he flatly rejected such tests for accused witches as reciting the Lord's Prayer, swimming, or weeping (superstition was the witches lacked these abilities). | | | Increase visited many of the accused in prison, and several of them recanted their confessions to him. | | | After the trials, Increase tried to resolve the dispute between Parris and his congregation. |
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http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/salem/ASA_INC.HTM
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| | Discussion Thread: Increase Mather |
| | It were better that ten suspected Witches should escape, than that one innocent Person should be Condemned....I had rather judge a Witch to be an honest woman, than judge an honest woman as a Witch. | | | In response to Wendy's question about books on the Salem witch trials, and their legal aspects: | | | Godbeer talks about that work in the epilogue of his book. |
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| | Salem Witch Trials: Increase Mather |
| | Mather advised the congregation that they should focus their attention on their own shortcomings and not those that they saw in their neighbors and friends. | | | His son, Cotton Mather was born into the third generation of Puritan Mather ministers, and after following in father's footsteps by studying at Harvard, Cotton would join his father as a leader in the Boston religious establishment. | | | He and four of his five brothers would follow Richard's call to guide the morality and spirituality of their fellow man, even as the family ventured with other Puritans to New England in the seventeenth century. |
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http://www.iath.virginia.edu/salem/people/i_mather.html
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| | Increase Mather Biography / Biography of Increase Mather Main Biography |
| | england · in england · harvard · boston ·; the eldest · new england · colonists · charter · covenant · conceded · congregational churches · john cotton · massachusetts colony · mather · dorchester mass · halfway covenant | | | In 1664 Increase became teacher of the Second Church, which he served until his death. | | | Increase Mather Biography / Biography of Increase Mather Main Biography |
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| | Reader's Companion to American History - -MATHER, INCREASE, and MATHER, COTTON |
| | He played an important role in disseminating scientific knowledge to the New England community (he wrote a treatise on medicine, The Angel of Bethesda, that remained unpublished in his lifetime), and, with Increase, he was at the forefront of the battle for acceptance of the smallpox vaccine. | | | He remains best known, however, for his support of the witchcraft persecution, which he explained in his Wonders of the Invisible World (1693), a book that can be read—more sympathetically now than then—as a poignant assertion of New England's continuing centrality as the battleground between God and Satan. | | | Cotton Mather, an even more prolific writer and controversialist than his father, published nearly five hundred works, of which the most important is the Magnalia Christi Americana (1702), a massive history of New England under the aspect of divine providence. |
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| | Early American Literature: "The Captive Exile Hasteth": Increase Mather, Meditation, and Authority.(Increase Mather, ... |
| | "The Captive Exile Hasteth": Increase Mather, Meditation, and Authority.(Increase Mather, colonist who lived in the 17th century) | | | Early American Literature: "The Captive Exile Hasteth": Increase Mather, Meditation, and Authority.(Increase Mather, colonist who lived in the 17th century)@ HighBeam Research | | | Like a number of other colonists during Cromwell's Protectorate, he had abandoned the New for the Old World. |
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| | It attempts to cover all aspects of his life: politics, religion, writing, etc. Lowance, Mason Jr. | | | The earliest individual biography on Mather which our library owns, Murdock attempts to objectively portray Mather as the leader of his day and age. | | | This work tends to focus exclusively on the writings of Mather and their effect on the populace. |
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http://www.hillsdale.edu/academics/downloads/andrewmitchellincreasebib_1.doc
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| | AddALL.com - browse and compare book price: Increase Mather |
| | Richard Mather, Teacher in the Church in Dorchester, New England, 1670 | | | Angelographia or a Discourse Concerning the Nature and Power of the Holy Angels, 1696 | | | AddALL.com - browse and compare book price: Increase Mather |
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| | The Last Days of Increase Mather |
| | Even these borne with the faith and patience of the saints have a sort of martyrdom in them, and will add unto the "far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory." | | | ND now the time draws nigh, in which Dr. Mather is to die. | | | He grows old, yet what a green olive-tree in the proseucha of his God!—nec tarda senectus debilitat vires animi, mulaive vigorem. |
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| | Salem Witch Trials Increase Mather |
| | While his actions in 1692 were often self-contradictory, he was, according to Kenneth Murdock regarded as "an ally and leader of those whom we see as the most liberal of his time." | | | INCREASE MATHER (1639-1723): Mather, an influential Boston minister and father of Cotton Mather, is credited with being a force for moderation throughout the Salem witchcraft trials and helping bring them to an end with the circulation of his Cases of Conscience on October 3, 1692. | | | Increase Mather has drawn fire from some historians of the period for his hesitancy to take a firm stand against the trials and executions early in the summer of 1692. |
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| | Cotton Mather -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | Most of what they wrote in colonial times was prompted by their religious feeling. | | | Boston Congregational minister, author and educator, who was a determining influence in the councils of New England during the crucial period when leadership passed into the hands of the first native-born generation. | | | Three of the most eminent and influential Puritan clergymen in colonial Massachusetts were members of the Mather family: Richard (1596–1669), his son Increase (1639–1723), and his grandson Cotton (1663–1728). |
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| | UPNE The Last American Puritan |
| | He was the most important spokesman of his generation for Congregationalism and became the last American Puritan of consequence as the seventeenth century ended. | | | Tempted to “Atheisme” and unbelief, afflicted early by nightmares and melancholy, then by hope and joy, he was a pioneer in recognizing the excitement of the new sciences and sought to reconcile them to theology. | | | He left home for Harvard College when he was twelve and at twenty-two began to stir the city of Boston from the pulpit of North Church. |
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| | Increase Mather |
| | There were others also at Charles-town brought upon their Tryals, who had formerly confess'd themselves to be Witches; but upon their tryals deny'd it, and were all clear'd; So that at present there is no further prosecution of any. | | | With the observations of a Person who was upon the Place several Days when the suspected Witches were first taken into Examination. | | | Increase Mather, A Further Account of the Tryals of the New-England Witches, sent in a Letter from thence, to a Gentleman in London (1693) |
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| | A short poem by Increase Mather from the title page of his diary; site maintained by Drexel University. | | | Increase Mather's report of his conversation in prison with Sarah Wilson, Sr. | | | Contains an in-depth biography of Increase Mather; maintained by Early America.com. |
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| | Mather, Increase - definition of Mather, Increase by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia. |
| | 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. | | | Mather, Increase - definition of Mather, Increase by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia. | | | You may also use the word browser links: |
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| | Death Literature - Last Days of Increase Mather by Mather |
| | They were ready to swear, like Hannibal against the Romans, and to bind their sons to the oath of everlasting enmity to the name of Britain. | | | Death Literature - Last Days of Increase Mather by Mather | | | In their late excursion they had trod their deleterious path through a part of the country called the Connecticut Farms. |
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| | Amazon.ca: Increase Mather: A Bibliography of His Works: Books |
| | Amazon.ca: Increase Mather: A Bibliography of His Works: Books | | | Look for books like Increase Mather: A Bibliography of His Works by subject: | | | Use Your Account to view or change your orders |
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| | increase mather - OneLook Dictionary Search |
| | Tip: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "increase mather" is defined. | | | We found 6 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word increase mather: | | | Mather, Increase : Columbia Encyclopedia, Six Edition [home, info] |
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| | Science and Pseudo-science |
| | Individual cases were ended – not by atheists or religious heretics, but by orthodox religious ministers (such as, in the case of the Salem witch trials, the staunch Puritan minister Increase Mather). | | | Witch-burning ended, not because people had suddenly become scientific, but because the forces that caused it (the need for a scapegoat) ceased to exist. |
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| | Find in a Library: Increase Mather : two tracts. |
| | WorldCat is provided by OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. on behalf of its member libraries. | | | Find in a Library: Increase Mather : two tracts. |
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| | Increase Mather |
| | Increase Mather (1639-1723) was an influential Puritan theologian who upheld the Puritan theocracy in Massachusetts Bay. | | | He went to England to present the grievances of Massachusetts against Sir Edmund Andros. | | | After the Glorious Revolution of 1689, Mather obtained a new charter which united Plymouth Colony and Massachusetts Bay. |
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http://www.gps.edu/amhistory/colonialera/imather.htm
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| | Early American and Colonial Literature to 1700 |
| | Discovering the Unity Among the Parts and the Interweaving of Themes in Cotton Mather's "Wonders of the Invisible World" | | | Includes Mather's writings; other resources & writings about Mather. | | | Use search function to find articles, "Life of Cotton Mather" by |
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