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A Cotton Mather reader / edited and with an introduction by Reiner Smolinski and Kenneth P. Minkema.
ISBN
0300260180
9780300260182
0300229976
9780300229974
Publication
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2022]
Copyright Notice Date
©2022
Physical Description
xxxvi, 392 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Summary
Cotton Mather (1663-1728) is one of the best-known Puritan writers, but very few people have ever read a significant portion of his work. The sheer volume of Mather's corpus makes it challenging. In his sixty-five years, he was responsible for some of the most important contributions to history, medicine, and theology in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, in addition to having written some 450 books and pamphlets, hundreds of sermons, and thousands of letters. This wide-ranging volume includes topical selections on autobiography and meditation; New England history; gender, childrearing, and education; natural science and medicine; mercantilism and paper money; biblical interpretation; Salem witchcraft; race, slavery, and servitude; Native Americans and captivity; and pietism, world missions, and millennialism. This reader will serve as both a reference for scholars and a textbook for students and should help bring renewed attention to this important figure.
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 06, 2022
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-379) and indexes.
Contents
"Paterna"
To My Son
Diary (March 1681)
[Mather's "Infirmity"]
Samuel Mather, Life (1729)
[Mother Is Given a Way to Minimize His Stutter]
Christianus per Ignem (1702)
[Meditations on Fire]
New England History and The Glorious Revolution
Magnalia Christi Americana (1702)
A General Introduction
Nehemias Americanus: The Life of John Winthrop, Esq.
The Declaration, of Gentlemen, Merchants, and Inhabitants of Boston, and the Countrey Adjacent (1689)
Gender, Childrearing, and Education
Ornaments for the Daughters of Zion (1692)
The Vertuous Maid
The Vertuous Wife
The Vertuous Mother
The Vertuous Widow
Bonifacius. An Essay upon the Good (1710)
Husband, Wife, Parents, and Children
Natural Philosophy (Science)
The Christian Philosopher (1721)
Essay I: Of the Light
Essay XXI: Of Gravity
Conclusion
Medicine and the Cure of Diseases
"The Angel of Bethesda" (c. 1693)
Cap. VII: Conjecturales
An Account of the Method and Success of Inoculating the Small-Pox (1722)
Diary (November 14, 1721)
[Assassination Attempt on Cotton Mather]
Mercantilism and Paper Money
Some Considerations on the Bills of Credit (1691)
Theopolis Americana (1710)
Biblical Hermeneutics
Psalterium Americanum (1718)
Introduction
An Admonition Concerning the Tunes
Psalm XXIII
Psalm CXXXVII
Manuductio ad Ministerium (1726)
[Reading the Sacred Scriptures]
Biblia Americana (1693-1728)
[Entry on Genesis 1:31 (Atomist Explanation of the Mosaic Creation Account)]
[Entry on Exodus 16:33 (On the Generation of Insects)]
[Entry on Joshua 10:12 ( On the Sun Standing Still)]
[Entry on Judges 11:38 (The Sacrifice of Jephthah's Daughter)]
[Entry on 2 Chronicles 1:1 (Solomon a Type of Christ)]
[Entry on the Psalms (A Jewish Curiosity About the Psalms)]
[Entry on Isaiah 7:14 (Isaiah's Prophecy on a Virgin Conceiving)]
[Entry on Isaiah 7:16 (The Applicability of Isaiah's Prophecy to Christ)]
[Entry on Romans 3:31 (On a Sinner's Justification)]
[Entry on Ephesians 5:32 (The Mystery in the Marriage of Adam and Eve)]
[Entry on Ephesians 5:22-32 (Marriage as a Type of Union Between Christ and the Church)]
The Invisible World and Salem Witchcraft
Memorable Providences, Relating to Witchcrafts and Possessions (1689)
Witchcrafts and Possessions
"The Return of Several Ministers Consulted by His Excellency, and the Honourable Council, upon the Present Witchcrafts in Salem Village" (June 15, 1692)
Diary (May-December 1692)
[Account of Activities During the Witch Hunt]
"Letter to John Foster" ( August 17, 1692)
The Wonders of the Invisible World (1693)
Enchantments Encountred
The Tryal of G[eorge] B[urroughs]
The Tryal of Susanna Martin
Race, Slavery, and Servitude
Biblia Americana (1693-1728)
[Entry on Genesis 9:27 ( The Curse of Cham)]
[Entry on Genesis 9:20-27 (The Prophecy of Noah)]
[Entry on Genesis 10:20 (The Nations Descended from One Man)]
Diary (October-December 1693)
[Establishing a "Society of Negroes"]
Rules for the Society of Negroes (1693)
A Good Master Well Served (1696)
The Negro Christianized (1706)
Puritans and Native Americans
humiliations Follow'd with Deliverances (1697)
A Narrative of a Notable Deliverance from Captivity
A Narrative of Hannah Swarton, Containing Wonderful Passages, Relating to Her Captivity, and Her Deliverance
Duodecennium Luctuosum (1714)
Pietism and World Missions
Manuductio ad Ministerium (1726)
[Maxims of Piety]
India Christiana (1721)
III. Unio Fidelium. Communications Between the Western and Eastern India
To the Reverend... Mr. Bartholomew Ziegenbalgh
The Second Coming and Millennialism
Triparadisus (1727)
The Third Paradise: An Introduction
X: The New Earth Survey'd.
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