Powerful preacher, political negotiator for New England in the
halls of Parliament, president of Harvard, father of Cotton Mather,
Increase Mather was the epitome of the American Puritan. He was the
most important spokesman of his generation for Congregationalism
and became the last American Puritan of consequence as the
seventeenth century ended. The story begins in 1639 when Mather was
born in the Massachusetts village of Dorchester. He left home for
Harvard College when he was twelve and at twenty-two began to stir
the city of Boston from the pulpit of North Church. He had written
four books by the time he was thirty-two.
Certain he was God's chosen instrument and New England God's chosen
people, he disciplined mind and spirit in service to them both.
Tempted to "Atheisme" and unbelief, afflicted early by nightmares
and melancholy, then by hope and joy, he was a pioneer in
recognizing the excitement of the new sciences and sought to
reconcile them to theology.
This well-wrought biography, the first of Increase Mather in forty
years, draws on the extensive Mather diaries, which were
transcribed by Michael Hall.
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