By Cotton Mather, William J. Scheick
ISBN-10: 0934223068
ISBN-13: 9780934223065
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On one level, the motif originates from the fact that Increase is Richard's son. " 5 Similarly, Robert Middlekauff has remarked that throughout his life Increase felt the moral authority of his father and could not have escaped it had he wished to: "What gave Richard's example its compulsive power was . . '' 6 So, on another and deeper level, the image of the father in Life and Death points beyond a solely natural or secular sense and discloses a more pervasive religious dimensionthe relation between spiritual fathers or ministers, such as Richard Mather, and the New England family as a whole.
21 The full title of one of Increase's sermons, delivered about a year later, indicates his conscious effort to make good his resolution: The First Principles of New-England, Concerning the Subject of Baptisme & Communion of Churches. Collected Partly Out of the Printed Books, But Chiefly Out of the Original Manuscripts of the First & Chiefe Fathers in the New-English Churches; with the Judgment of Sundry Learned Divines of the Congregational Way in England, Concerning the Said Questions. Published for the Benefit of Those Who Are of the Rising Generation in New-England.
26 As a biography, however, it is a paragon of the genre as it would develop in late seventeenth-century Puritan America. The author's anonymity as well as the brevity, structuring motif, pervading theme, transparent style, and biographical technique of the book all contribute to yield an integrated work of art, one that conveys implicitly as a whole what it argues explicitly. 3 Cotton Mather's Parentator (meaning, observations in honor of a dead parent) differs from Increase's Life and Death in several ways, some more important than others.
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