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Gender Male
Death300 years ago
Date of birth June 21,1639
Zodiac sign Cancer
Born Massachusetts Bay Colony
Date of died August 23,1723
DiedBoston
Massachusetts
United States
Parents Richard Mather
Spouse Ann Cotton
Maria Cotton
Children Cotton Mather
Job Writer
Theologian
Education Harvard University
Trinity College Dublin
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Remarkable Providences Illustrative of the Earlier Days of American Colonisation
Cases of Conscience Concerning Evil Spirits
The Wonders of the Invisible World. Being an Account of the Tryals of Several Witches Lately Executed in New England
An Essay for the recording of illustrious providences: wherein an account is given of many remarkable and very memorable events
A Brief History of the War with the Indians
Cases of Conscience Concerning Evil Spirits Personating Men, Witchcrafts, Infallible Proofs of Guilt in Such as are Accused with that Crime: All Considered According to the Scriptures, History, Experience, and the Judgment of Many Learned Men
The Autobiography of Increase Mather
A Discourse Concerning Comets
Early history of New England
Tales of Conscience Concerning Evil Spirits
Diary
Angelographia: Or a Discourse Concerning the Nature and Power of the Holy Angels
Early History of New England; Being a Relation of Hostile Passages Between the Indians and European - Scholar's Choice Edition
A Disquisition Concerning Ecclesiastical Councils: Proving
Ichabod: Or, A discourse . . .
Course of Sermons on Early Piety
Relation of the Troubles Which Have Happened in New England by Reason of the Indians There
Departing Glory: Eight Jeremiads
Practical Truths, Plainly Delivered: Wherein Is Shewed, I. That True Believers on Jesus Christ, Shall As Certainly Enjoy Everlasting Life in Heaven, As If They Were There Already
The Wicked Mans Portion, Or, A Sermon: Wherein is Shewed that Excesse in Wickedness Doth Bring Untimely
A Relation of the Troubles which Have Hapned in New-England, by Reason of the Indians There, from the Year 1614 to the Year 1675
Wonders of the Unseen World
A Dissertation Concerning the Future Conversion of the Jewish Nation
An arrow against profane and promiscuous dancing
Soul-Saving Gospel Truths; Delivered in Several Sermons, Wherein Is Shewed: I. the Unreasonableness of Those Excuses Which Men Make for Their Delaying to Come to the Lord Jesus Christ for Salvation
Increase Mather Vs. Solomon Stoddard: Two Puritan Tracts
The Life and Death of that Reverend Man of God, Mr. Richard Mather, Teacher of the Church in Dorchester in New-England
Burnings Bewailed: In a Sermon, Occasioned by the Lamentable Fire which was in Boston, October 2d. 1711. In which the Sins which Provoke the Lord to Kindle Fires, are Enquired Into
An Exposition of the Assemblies Catechism, with Practical Inferences from Each Question: As it was Carried on in the Lord's Days Exercises in Dartmouth, in the First Year of Liberty, 1688
A History of God's Remarkable Providences in Colonial New England
A Dissertation, Wherein the Strange Doctrine Lately Published in a Sermon, the Tendency of Which, Is, to Encourage Unsanctified Persons (while Such) to Approach the Holy Table of the Lord, is Examined and Confuted: With an Appendix, Shewing what Scripture Ground There is to Hope, that Within a Very Few Years There Will be a Glorious Reformation of the Church Throughout the World
A Discourse Concerning the Grace of Courage, Wherein the Nature, Beneficialness, and Necessity of That Vertue for All Christians, Is Described
Important Truths About Conversion
The Voice of God in Stormy Winds: Considered in Two Sermons Occasioned by the Dreadful and Unparallel'd Storm in the European Nations, Novemb. 27th, 1703
The Great Blessing, of Primitive Counsellours: Discoursed in a Sermon, Preached in the Audience of the Governour, Council, and Representatives, of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay, in New-England. May 31st. 1693. Being the Day for the Election of Counsellours, in that Province
The Doctrine of Singular Obedience, as the Duty and Property of the True Christian: Opened and Applied. In a Sermon [on Matt. V. 47].
Wo to Drunkards. Two Sermons Testifying Against the Sin of Drunkenness: Wherein the Wofulness of That Evil and the Misery of All That Are Addicted to It, Discovered from the Word of God the Second Edition. [three Lines from Habakkuk]
The Doctrine of Divine Providence Opened and Applyed: Also Sundry Sermons on Several Other Subjects
Sermons, wherein those eight characters of the blessed, commonly called the Beatitudes, are opened and applied, in fifteen discourses. To which is added, a sermon concerning the assurance of the love of Christ. . . . Second edition
A Brief History of the Warr with the Indians in New-England: (from June 24, 1675. when the First English-man was Murdered by the Indians, to August 12. 1676. when Philip Aliàs Metacomet, the Principal Author and Beginner of the Warr, was Slain. ) Wherein the Grounds, Beginning, and Progress of the Warr, is Summarily Expressed. : Together with a Serious Exhortation to the Inhabitants of that Land,
God Giveth the Increase: An Ordination Sermon, Preached at Bristol, N. E. , Aug. 30. 1721. When Mr. Nathanael Cotton was Ordained the Pastor of the Church There
Several Papers Relating to the State of New England
Early History of New England: Being a Relation of Hostile Passages Between the Indians and European Voyagers and First Settlers : and a Full Narrative of Hostilities, to the Close of the War with the Pequots, in the Year 1637 : Also a Detailed Account of the Origin of the War with King Philip
Diary by Increase Mather, March, 1675--December, 1676: Together with Extracts from Another Diary by Him, 1674-1687
The Excellency of a Publick Spirit Discoursed: In a Sermon, Preached in the Audience of the General Assembly of the Province of the Masachusetts Bay in New England, May 27. 1702. Being the Day for Election of Counsellors in That Province
Increase Mather: Two Tracts
The History of King Philip's War . . . Also, a History of the Same War, by . . . Cotton Mather . . . to Which Are Added an Introduction and Notes, by S. G. Drake, Etc. L. P. - War College Series
A Discourse Concerning Faith and Fervency in Prayer, and the Glorious Kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ, on Earth, Now Approaching. Delivered in Several Sermons, in Which the Signs of the Present Times Are Considered
A Guide to Christ, Or, the Way of Directing Souls That Are Under the Work of Conversion: Compiled for the Help of Young Ministers, and May Be Servicea
The Dying Pastor's Legacy
Ichabod Or, A Discourse Shewing what Cause There is to Fear that the Glory of the Lord, is Departing from New England. -
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Increase Mather was a powerful Puritan clergyman in the Massachusetts Bay Colony and was president of Harvard College for twenty years. He was influential in the administration of the colony during a time that coincided with the notorious Salem witch trials.

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