Thread: Remarkable Providences Illustrative of the Earlier Days of American Colonization
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Old 05-03-2008, 10:24 AM
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His hair (actually, wig) is much longer in the picture found in Meet the Puritans.
Was this book the foundation for Cotton Mather's later study in Puritan New England?
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.
So Cotton Increased the work of Increase?
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