Print LaPlante‚ Eve HarperOne‚ 2007. Print Lowance‚ Mason I Mather‚ Cotton. Cotton Mather: Historical Writings. New York‚ N.Y: AMS Press‚ 1991. Print Murdock‚ Kenneth Ballard Harvard UP‚ 1926. Print. Norton‚ Mary Beth. In the Devil ’s Snare: the Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692. New York: Vintage‚ 2003 Skinner‚ B. F. Science and Human Behavior. New York: Macmillan‚ 1953. Print. Silverman‚ Kenneth. The Life and times of Cotton Mather. New York: Harper & Row‚ 1984. Opinions on Witchcraft and Kindred
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“The Devil In New England” is a persuasive piece written by Cotton Mather. He advocated the belief that witchcraft was a wicked force that was growing within New England. He believed that this was the work of the Devil‚ and that the Devil was conjuring up an army of witches to destroy religion. According to Mather‚ the Devil “was exceedingly disturbed” by the presence of the Puritans. Knowing his audience were Puritans‚ he used the fear of the Devil and his workings to instill uneasiness in the
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The author of A Defense of the Salem Witch Trials‚ Cotton Mather‚ was a leading minister in Boston at the time of the trials (Dudley 26). Thomas Brattle‚ author of An Attack on the Salem Witch Trials‚ was an eye-catching merchant also from Boston (Dudley 29). By providing information from confessions as well as specific evidence from the trials themselves‚ Cotton Mather made a strong argument in supporting the Salem Witch Trials.
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Cotton Mather‚ born on February 12‚ 1663 in Boston Massachusetts‚ graduated from Harvard in 1678 at the age of fifteen. Mather took on full responsibilities as pastor at Boston’s original North Church in 1685. Mather was well known for the Salem Witchcraft Trials. Mather wrote‚ “Accounts of the Salem Witchcraft Trials” in 1693. During one of the trials‚ Susanna (North) Martin was accused of witchcraft. Martin was born in Olney‚ Buckinghamshire‚ England on September 30‚ 1621‚ were she was baptized
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primary document‚ Cotton Mather‚ a Puritan theologian‚ writes about his fears of losing the entire country to the devil and his minions as the Christian religion‚ in his mind‚ is being slowly eradicated from the entire country due to witchcraft. In 1693 Cotton Mather wrote a literary piece called The Wonders of the Invisible World a year after questionable events in defense of the persecutions of those accused and convicted in Salem for witchcraft. Throughout the document‚ Mather is constantly depicting
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To My Dear and Loving Husband Anne Bradstreet Anne Bradstreet was the first poet and the first female writer in the British North American colonies to be published. Her first volume of poetry was The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America‚ published in 1650. She was born March 20‚ 1612 in Northampton‚ Massachusetts and died September 16‚ 1672 in Andover. She was married to Simon Bradstreet. When they married‚ she was 16 and he was 25. Mrs. Bradstreet’s works are also considered to represent the
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Through Adam and Eve‚ every person is born a sinner. Few are selected for salavation‚ for Jesus died for the chosen only. Mather believed that God had appointed him to help establish the New World‚ by ruling out evil. Binding religion and family was the covenant of the New England Puritans. Puritans believed they were one‚ and purity was the way of everyday life. In American context‚ churches and states are separated‚ while worship is practiced on Sunday’s. The family’s authority was backed by
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mistake in early American history‚ there is an explanation that requires a certain amount of understanding. Cotton Mather’s “The Wonders of the Invisible World”‚ serves as a written account of encouragement to persecute suspected evil. This book can provide insight to the mindset of the community and the influence behind Mather’s words that influenced this dark period of history. Mather projected himself as a respectable leader in the puritan community in which‚ sought to create an existence of
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that connects both “Insufficiency of Evidence Against Witches” and “Wonder of the Invisible World” is that both Increase and Cotton Mather were both puritan ministers that participated in the Salem witch trials. In addition‚ both father and son had different views on how the trials should be handled. The author of “Insufficiency of Evidence Against Witches” was Increase Mather. The purpose of writing this document was to argue that there was lack of evidence linking innocent individuals to witchery
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John Winthrop’s “Model of Christian Charity‚” Anne Bradstreet’s The Tenth Muse‚ and Cotton Mather’s Wonders of the Invisible World connect and juxtapose world events during the 1600s. Winthrop supposedly presented his “Model of Christian Charity” sermon on the Arabella en route from England to the Massachusetts Bay Colony. While the Mayflower Compact was not a sermon‚ it connects to Winthrop’s sermon in two ways. First‚ both are significant to the ships they were presented on‚ the Mayflower and Arabella
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