Got this book from RHB today; anyone else read it. Looks good.

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Daniel Ritchie
Saintfield, Northern Ireland - Queen's University, Belfast:History/Politics
Member of Dromara Reformed Presbyterian Church of Ireland (Covenanter)

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

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Andrew Myers
Husband of Jessica, Father of Jackson, Katie and Samuel
Member, Presbyterian Reformed Church of Northern Virginia
Warrenton, VA USA
Editor, The Matthew Poole Project

"On land, at sea, at home, abroad, / I smoke my pipe and worship God." -- J.S. Bach

Not the best picture of Increase Mather on the front cover though.

Yes, he looked like he needed his hair cut,

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Stephen Welch
PCA Teaching Elder
Nova Scotia

Those Puritans must have been imitating our own "Amazing Grace".

Please let us know what you think of it

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Brian E
Attending Christ Reformed Baptist Church
Milwaukee, WI

His hair (actually, wig) is much longer in the picture found in Meet the Puritans.

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.

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?

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.

bet he's got an earring under those locks....

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Todd K. Pedlar
member, First Congregational Church, (CCCC) Cresco, IA
http://semperubi.rtrc.net

"Many men, after a long conversion, see more of the workings of sin in their hearts than ever they did before or at their first conversion. Now, such men have not an increase of sin, but an increase of illumination and light" (Christopher Love)


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Maybe some tats too....

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Chris Poe--Attending Grace Community Baptist Church, Mandeville, LA

"There never was a man in the world without a creed. What is a creed? A creed is what you believe. What is a confession? It is a declaration of what you believe. That declaration may be oral or it may be committed to writing, but the creed is there either expressed or implied."—B.H. Carroll

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.

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.