Reformed Covenanter
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Got this book from RHB today; anyone else read it. Looks good.
Remarkable Providences Illustrative of the Earlier Days of American Colonization
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Got this book from RHB today; anyone else read it. Looks good.
VirginiaHuguenot
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Yes, it's online too. It was inspired by a project that Matthew Poole began but was unable to complete. It's very interesting reading.
Remarkable Providences Illustrative ... - Google Book Search
Remarkable Providences Illustrative ... - Google Book Search
Reformed Covenanter
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Yes, he looked like he needed his hair cut,
Reformed Covenanter
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Yes, he looked like he needed his hair cut,
Those Puritans must have been imitating our own "Amazing Grace".
VirginiaHuguenot
Puritanboard Librarian
His hair (actually, wig) is much longer in the picture found in Meet the Puritans.
Reformed Covenanter
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I needed it for the sourcebook I am working on; not sure if I will get to read it all in the near future, though it would be good preparation for studying Cotton Mather's Great Works of Christ in America...so I might make it my business to read it.
Reformed Covenanter
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Was this book the foundation for Cotton Mather's later study in Puritan New England?
VirginiaHuguenot
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I'm sure it was influential. Increase's book was first published in 1684. Cotton began working on Magnalia Christi Americana in 1690. Both have similar goals in attempting to show God's providential plans for and dealings with New England.
Reformed Covenanter
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Not the best picture of Increase Mather on the front cover though.
Yes, he looked like he needed his hair cut,
Those Puritans must have been imitating our own "Amazing Grace".
I thought about wearing one of those wigs at the PCA General Assembly in Dallas next month. There is usually a section of elders sitting together wearing clerical collars, so maybe I could start my own section of elders wearing wigs. It is a great way to start a tradition.
toddpedlar
Iron Dramatist
Not the best picture of Increase Mather on the front cover though.
Yes, he looked like he needed his hair cut,
Those Puritans must have been imitating our own "Amazing Grace".
bet he's got an earring under those locks....
Pilgrim
Puritanboard Commissioner
Yes, he looked like he needed his hair cut,
Those Puritans must have been imitating our own "Amazing Grace".
bet he's got an earring under those locks....
Maybe some tats too....
VirginiaHuguenot
Puritanboard Librarian
Cotton was very prolific, but Increase wrote 175 books and pamphlets, and it would be hard for most to top that. They were quite a pair, and of course there was Richard too. That was an amazing spiritual dynasty.
Reformed Covenanter
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I think Dr. Andrew Holmes (my lecturer last semester at Queen's) said that Cotton Mather wrote around 380 books.
VirginiaHuguenot
Puritanboard Librarian
So Cotton Increased the work of Increase?
I think Dr. Andrew Holmes (my lecturer last semester at Queen's) said that Cotton Mather wrote around 380 books.
Well, Wikipedia says that Cotton Mather wrote 450 books and pamphlets. So I guess Cotton did Increase the work of Increase.
Reformed Covenanter
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I think Dr. Andrew Holmes (my lecturer last semester at Queen's) said that Cotton Mather wrote around 380 books.
Well, Wikipedia says that Cotton Mather wrote 450 books and pamphlets. So I guess Cotton did Increase the work of Increase.
Andrew must have forgot about the pamphlets.
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