Two Mather Biographies: Life and Death and ParentatorLehigh University Press, 1989 - 241 sider The first modem edition of Increase Mather's seventeenth-century biography of his father, Richard, and Cotton Mather's eighteenth-century biography of his father, Increase. Characteristic of New England Puritan biographies, both convey religious instruction about the conduct of one's life on earth. |
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THE LIFE AND DEATH OF That Reverend Man of God MR RICHARD MATHER TEACHER of the CHURCH IN DORCHESTER IN NEWENGLA... | 27 |
PARENTATOR | 59 |
NOTES TO THE INTRODUCTION | 213 |
NOTES TO Life and Death | 216 |
NOTES TO Parentator | 221 |
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