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Jun 17, 2024 · Increase Mather, Congregational minister, author, and educator, who was a determining influence in the councils of New England during the period when leadership passed into the hands of the first native-born generation. He was the son of Richard Mather, son-in-law of John Cotton, and father of Cotton Mather.
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Jun 24, 2024 · Increase Mather had published a book on witchcraft in 1684 and his son Cotton Mather published one in 1689. Increase Mather brought out a London edition of his son's book in 1690. Increase Mather claimed to have picked all the men to be included in the new government.
Jun 21, 2024 · On October 3 Cotton Mather’s father, Increase Mather, an influential minister and the president of Harvard, condemned the use of spectral evidence and instead favoured direct accusations: The devil never assists men to do supernatural things undesired.
Jun 11, 2024 · increase mather. Publication date 1675 Collection internetarchivebooks Contributor Internet Archive Language English. Notes. cut-off text on some pages due ...
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Jul 1, 2024 · The children of clergymen tended to marry each other, and a clerical elite was perpetuated over generations, as, for example, Cotton Mather followed his father Increase Mather and his grandfathers Richard Mather and John Cotton into the ministry.
Jun 16, 2024 · Joshua Moody and Increase Mather, the high priests of the disloyal faction, were, as might have been expected, the promoters of these disorders.
