… as being the very instigators of it. Thus Puritan giants of the faith such as Increase and Cotton Mather are held up to ridicule by politicians, historians and writers alike as the men who, in their twisted religious zeal, sent dozens of innocents to the scaffold. Arthur Miller, the self-styled moral reformer and author of The Crucible, a dramatised account of the Salem Witch Trials which the author claims is historical, sums up all the antipathy poured out against the Mathers by …
Posts Tagged Cotton Mather
Iain Murray’s Controversy
Dec 15
… has read my recent articles and books on 18th century evangelicals of all denominations such as Cotton Mather, John Gill, James Hervey, William Romaine, William Cowper, Risdon Darracot and Philip Doddridge will know how utterly untrue your statement is. I would like to see this error corrected in your magazine at the earliest possible opportunity.
Yours in Christ,
George M. Ella
(Iain Murray replied personally, denying that the men I mentioned were contemporaries of …
Lecture Subjects
Aug 21
… Toplady (1740-1778): A Debtor to Mercy Alone
Christopher and Mary Love: Like Name, Like Nature.
Cotton Mather (1663-1728): New England Pietist
Daniel Featley ( 1582-1645): Contender for the Faith
David A. Doudney and his Walks and Talks with Jesus
David Brainerd (1718-1747): God’s Hiawatha
Edmund Grindal (c. 1519-1583): Upholder of Biblical Truths Against Popish Traditions
Edward VI (1537-1553): The Boy Saint
Erasmus Middleton (1739-1805): A Calvinistic Methodist
First Millennium …
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Chapter Five deals with Knollys who has badly needed rehabilitation since Cotton Mather read Mr. Hanserd Knollys as ‘Mr. Absurd Knowless.’ Contrary to what became his nickname, he was a very learned man and, after progressing from Anglicanism to Congregationalism, he settling down in Britain as a Baptist and did much useful work. Through the work of the Hanserd Knollys Society, Knollys’ own autobiography, completed by Kiffin, and Brook’s biography in his The …
Robert Oliver on Huntington
Aug 15
… work in India have long fired me with a zeal to evangelise the nations. August Hermann Franke and Cotton Mather on missionary strategy have thrilled me for years. Even those missionaries of a later time such as William Carey and J. G. Paton, about whom I have a shelf full of precious books, are a constant encouragement. I am trying to get Paton’s biography published in German at present. Who, too, would not praise God for the zeal of a John Howard, serving the Lord in the prisons of eastern …
Cowper Bicentenary
Aug 17
… in 1763 and became a patient in an asylum run by an Evangelical of poetic talents, Dr Nathaniel Cotton. Here Cowper was cured, at least for the next nine or ten years. He was also converted to the Christian faith as expressed by the Evangelicals of his day. Cowper now decided to put his talents to gospel use and write poetry to God’s glory.
Poets were then considered who are commonly thought to have influenced Cowper such as Churchill and Vaughan. Any influence they had on …
… teaching of the Seventeenth Century cross-party, inter-church Puritans such as Bergius, Byfield, Cotton, Davenant, Durie, Featley, Goodwin, Gouge, Hall, Manton, Matthiae, Mead, Nye, Owen, Pareus and Sibbes.
Those sound men of God, true Puritans, taught, never to put a constitution, discipline or order before fellowship in faith and doctrine. Denominations are not churches. The church is there where fellowship in Christ is, not where a certain discipline, order and elders’ …
… to minister in the land of their fathers. Here, we can mention Increase, Nathaniel and Samuel Mather. These new men, however, could not fill the void. Now men formerly totally opposed to an established church order were invited to come forward. These included the Baptists who provided two Triers (men who were government appointed to choose able men for the ministry) and, according to Baptist sources, a relative large number of Baptists took over Anglican livings in England, Ireland and …
