Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Note on the Text xi
Editors' Introduction xiii
Autobiography and Meditations 3
"Paterna" 6
To My Son 6
Diary (March 1681) 10
[Mather's "Infirmity"] 10
Samuel Mather, Life (1729) 10
[Mather Is Given a Way to Minimize His Stutter] 10
Christianus per Ignem (1702) 23
[Meditations on Fire] 23
New England History and the Glorious Revolution 39
Magnolia Christi Americana (1702) 45
A General Introduction 45
Nehemias Americanus: The Life of John Winthrop, Esq. 55
The Declaration, of the Gentlemen, Merchants, and Inhabitants of Boston, and the Countrey Adjacent (1689) 65
Gender, Childrearing, and Education 71
Ornaments for the Daughters of Zion (1692) 75
The Vertuous Maid 75
The Vertuous Wife 78
The Vertuous Mother 82
The Vertuous Widow 86
Bonifacius. An Essay upon the Good (1710) 89
[Husband, Wife, Parents, and Children] 89
Natural Philosophy (Science) 96
The Christian Philosopher (1721) 99
Essay I: Of the Light 99
Essay XXI: Of Gravity 104
Conclusion 109
Medicine and the Cure of Diseases 111
"The Angel of Bethesda" (c. 1693) 116
Cap. VII: Conjecturales 116
An Account of the Method and Success of Inoculating the Small-Pox (1722) 120
Diary (November 14, 1721) 132
[Assassination Attempt on Cotton Mather] 132
Mercantilism and Paper Money 134
Some Considerations on the Bills of Credit (1691) 141
Theopolis Americana (1710) 144
Biblical Hermeneutics 152
Psalterium Americanum (1718) 161
Introduction 161
An Admonition Concerning the Tunes 163
Psalm XXIII 163
Psalm CXXXVII 164
Manuductio ad Ministerium (1726) 164
[Reading the Sacred Scriptures] 164
Biblia Americana (1693-1728) 165
[Entry on Genesis 1:31 (Atomist Explanation of the Mosaic Creation Account)] 165
[Entry on Exodus 16:33 (On me Generation of Insects)] 173
[Entry on Joshua 10:12 (On the Sun Standing Still)] 175
[Entry on Judges 11:38 (The Sacrifice of Jephthah's Daughter)] 175
[Entry on 2 Chronicles 1:1 (Solomon a Type of Christ)] 176
[Entry on the Psalms (A Jewish Curiosity About the Psalms)] 178
[Entry on Isaiah 7:14 (Isaiah's Prophecy on a Virgin Conceiving)] 179
[Entry on Isaiah 7:16 (The Applicability of Isaiah's Prophecy to Christ)] 182
[Entry on Romans 3:31 (On a Sinner's Justification)] 183
[Entry on Ephesians 5:32 (The Mystery in the Marriage of Adam and Eve)] 185
[Entry on Ephesians 5:22-32 (Marriage as a Type of Union Between Christ and the Church)] 185
The Invisible World and Salem Witchcraft 187
Memorable Providences, Relating to Witchcrafts and Possessions (1689) 196
Witchcrafts and Possessions 196
"The Return of Several Ministers Consulted by His Excellency, and the Honourable Council, upon the Present Witchcrafts in Salem Village" (June 15, 1692) 210
Diary (May-December 1692) 211
[Account of Activities During the Witch Hunt] 211
"Letter to John Foster" (August 17, 1692) 214
The Wonders of the Invisible World (1693) 216
Enchantments Encountred 216
The Tryal of G[eorge] B[urroughs] 224
The Tryal of Susanna Martin 229
Race, Slavery, and Servitude 236
Biblia Americana (1693-1728) 240
[Entry on Genesis 9:27 (The Curse of Cham)] 240
[Entry on Genesis 9:20-27 (The Prophecy of Noah)] 241
[Entry on Genesis 10:20 (The Nations Descended from One Man)] 244
Diary (October-December 1693) 245
[Establishing a "Society of Negroes"] 245
Rules for the Society of Negroes (1693) 246
A Good Master Well Served (1696) 248
The Negro Christianized (1706) 257
Puritans and Native Americans 266
Humiliations Follow'd with Deliverances (1697) 270
A Narrative of a Notable Deliverance from Captivity 270
A Narrative of Hannah Swarton, Containing Wonderful Passages, Relating to Her Captivity, and Her Deliverance 272
Duodecennium Luctuosum (1714) 278
Pietism and World Missions 285
Manuductio ad Ministerium (1726) 287
[Maxims of Piety] 287
India Christiana (1721) 295
III. Unio Fidelium. Communications Between the Western and Eastern India 295
To the Reverend … Mr. Bartholomew Ziegenbalgh 297
The Second Coming and Millennialism 304
Triparadisus (1727) 307
The Third Paradise: An Introduction 307
X: The New Earth Survey'd 308
Appendix: Texts and Sources 321
Chronology 325
Notes 329
Bibliography 365
General Index 381
Index of Names 389