The life and times of Cotton Mather by Silverman Kenneth

Author:Silverman, Kenneth
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728, Puritans
ISBN: 1566492068
Publisher: New York : Harper & Row
Published: 1984-03-13T16:00:00+00:00

Index

Aaron, 45-46

Accomplished Singer, The (Mather), 305

Adams, Samuel, 1

Addison, Joseph, 199, 297

Advice, To the Churches of the Faithful

(Mather), 365Aeneid (Virgil), 159, 160"Affectation of Praehiminincies (a.d.

1663-1675)" (Porter), 277affliction, Puritan views on, 34, 76, 182,

269, 271, 273, 348-349Africa, inoculation in, 338-339Agricola (Mather), 412Ahab, king of Israel, 6lAlden,John and Priscilla, 111"Alice Doane's Appeal" (Hawthorne), 53Andover, Mass., witchcraft in, 104-109,

111, 118Andros, Sir Edmund, 63-74, 78-79, 106,

108, 111, 139, 203, 205, 206, 208, 213,

218, 367Angel of Bethesda, The (Mather), 406-410angels:

fallen, see devil, devils

as protective spirits, 123-130, 135-137,

311-312, 414, 440rcAnglican church, see Church of England;

Episcopal churchAnglican Society for the Propagation of

the Gospel, 208, 216, 241-242Anne, queen of England, 207, 208, 211,

295Apophthegmata (Lycosthenes), 262Appleton, Nathaniel, 366"Apple-Tree Table, The" (Melville), 54Archeus, 409

Arianism, 328-332, 368, 376, 399

Aristotle, 40, 252

Arius, 328-329

Arminianism, 302

Arndt,John, 231, 232, 235, 289

artillery sermon, 36, 47

Ashurst, Sir Henry, 147, 204-205, 206,

211, 213, 216-217, 220, 240, 294Ashurst, Sir William, 240, 241-242, 259,

293, 295astronomy, 22, 40-42, 251-252, 253

see also scienceatheism, 92

atomic theory, 167-168Augustus, emperor of Rome, 309Autobiography (Franklin), 164, 383Avery, William, 41-42, 338Axel, Samuel (Samuel May), 142

Baglivi, Georgi, 233

Balance of the Sanctuary, The (Mather),

400Ballard, Joseph, 104-105Bamberg, Germany, witchcraft in, 89Bancroft, George, 53Banister, John, 223-224baptism:

controversy over, 57, 118-120, 153

by devils, 105-106, 118Baptismal Piety (Mather), 400Baptists:

in Boston, 69, 111, 302

liberty of conscience for, 141, l6l, 302,332

persecution of, 56Barker, William, Sr., 106

465

466

INDEX

Barnard, John, 226

Barrington, John Shute, Lord, 296, 322,

376, 378Bavaria, witchcraft in, 89Baxter, Joseph, 366Baxter, Richard, 87, 115, 116, 125, 1 15,

302, 304, 439^7Bayle, Pierre, 291Beacon,Joseph, 248Bellomont, Lord, 139, 144, 176-177, 204,

205Bercovitch, Sacvan, 159bestiality, 58Bibber, Sarah, 104Bible:

Genesis, 167-168

Old Testament figures in, 34, 42-43, 6lPsalms, 304

quoted, 69, 107, 128, 184, 223, 313Revelation, 107, 170-171translations of, 240, 258"Biblia Americana" (Mather), 172, 199,201, 210, 224, 236-237, 247, 249,257-260, 282, 291, 329, 331, 391, 398,399,424,426,427topics covered in, 166-168, 237, 303,304,413Billings, William, 306Bishop, Bridget, 99-100, 103Blackmore, Sir Richard, 222blacks, 281, 337, 369

in Congregational church, 160, 194,

264, 45lnMather's views on, 264-265, 379, 451 nBlessed Unions (Mather), 146Boehm, Anthony William, 258Boerhaave, Hermann, 344Boileau-Despreaux, Nicolas, 291Bonifacius ("Essays to do Good")

(Mather), 2, 197, 232-238, 240, 253,257, 303, 403, 406Bonn, Germany, witchcraft in, 89Book of Common Prayer, 63, 68Boston:

Baptists in, 69, 111, 302

Cotton family in, 4, 24

described, 6, 12-13, 279-281

disestablishment of, 64

earthquakes in, 56, 279, 417-419, 421

economic crisis in, 310, 317, 321-322

epidemics in, 39-40, 56, 126, 173, 182,

192, 269-273, 279, 335, 336-363Episcopal church in, 62-63, 74, 208-

209, 283, 296, 367, 373-376fires in, 20-21, 56, 65, 279, 281first brothel in, 58harbor of, 59, 69-70, 212, 280

Boston (tout )

illegitimacy in, 308infant mortality in, 173

as major city, 6, 12 13, 27, 279 281manners and morals of, ^8 59, 221,

ir 228, 235. 280 281, 308Mather family in, 5 6measles in, 56, 269 273, 336North End of, 9, 12 13printing industry in, 153, 240, 281Reform Synod in (1679 1680), 36, 59religious sects in, 56, <>2. 74, 3()2scientific community in, 11, 167, *(|^

406as seaport. 56, 280smallpox in, 39, 56, 182, 192, 335, 336-

363South End of, 279, 280suicide in, 58

Town House of, 62, 70, 71, 279, 280uprising in (1689), 69-72, 73witchcraft in, 83-87, 95, 120-127, 136yellow fever in, 126Boston Epbemeris, The (Mather), 42Boston Gazette, 1, 341, 342, 349, 357, 416,

417Boston

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