The Mather Papers. Mass. Hist. Soc, Fourth Series, vol. VIII. (A collection of miscellaneous papers, with letters of I. M., serving to throw light on his career, especially during his years abroad.)
Calamy, E. Memoirs of the Life of . . . Increase Mather. London, 1725.
Colman, B. The Prophet's death; lamented and improved in a sermon preached . . . after the funeral of their venerable and aged pastor Increase Mather, D.D., etc. Boston, 1723.
Mather, C. A Father departing. A Sermon on the departure of the venerable and memorable Dr. Increase Mather .... By One who, as a Son with a Father, served with him in the Gospel, etc. Boston, 1723.
—Parentator. Memoirs of Remarkables in the Life and Death of the Ever-Memorable Dr. Increase Mather. Etc. Boston, 1724, 1742. [Reprint of I. M. 's Conversation with King William. I Mass. Hist. Soc. Col. IX, 245.]
Sibley, J. L. Harvard Graduates. Vol. 1, pp. 410-470. Cambridge, 1873. (With elaborate bibliography.)
Walker, W. Ten New England Leaders. 1 901.
Whitmore, W. H. Andros Tracts. Prince Soc. Pub. Vol. II. Boston, 1868-74. (Devoted chiefly to his mission to England, and contains his defense.)
—Memoir of the Rev. Increase Mather. N. E. Hist, and Gen. Reg., 11.
VIII. Cotton Mather (1663-1728)
The list of Cotton Mather's works as here printed, has been compressed from the elaborate bibliography published in Sibley's Harvard Graduates. It has been checked with other lists, and upwards of two score titles added, the most noteworthy of which are those recovered by Professor Kittredge in his study entitled Some Lost Works of Cotton Mather. The list doubtless contains a plentiful share of errors which have escaped the present editor; nevertheless he is content to leave it so, in the conviction that more time and labour have been expended upon the work of cataloguing the publications of Cotton Mather than their value justifies.
A. Separate Works
(1) A Poem Dedicated to the Memory of . . . Mr. Urian Oakes, etc. Boston, 1682. (2) The Boston Ephemeris. An Almanack for the Year of the Christian Aera MDCLXXXIII, etc. Boston, 1683. (3) An Elegy on the Much-to-be-deplored Death of that Never-to-be-forgotten Person, The Reverend Mr. Nathanael Collins; etc. Boston, 1685. (4) The Call of the Gospel Applyed unto All Men in general, and unto a Condemned Malefactor in particular, etc. Boston, [1686?]. Reprinted in Magnalia, VI, 40. [Given in Brit. Mus. Cat. as 1687.] (5) Military Duties, Recommended to an Artillery Company; etc. Boston, 1687. (6) Early Piety, Exemplified in the Life and Death of Mr. Nathaniel Mather . . . whereto are Added Some Discourses, etc. London, 1689. Sec. ed. same year. Boston, 1690. Reprinted in Magnalia. (7) Memorable Providences, Relating to Witchcrafts and Possessions, etc. Boston, 1689. Second ed. abridged. London, 1691. Edinburgh, 1697. (8) Right Thoughts in Sad Hours, Representing the Comforts and Duties of Good Men, under all their Afflictions; And Particularly, That one, the Untimely Death of Children; etc. London, 1689. Dunstable, 1811. (9) Small Offers Towards the Service of the Tabernacle in the Wilderness. Four Discourses, etc. Boston, 1689. Reprinted under title The Resolved Christian, 1700. (10) Souldiers Counselled and Comforted. A Discourse, etc. Boston, [1689]. (11) Work upon the Ark. Meditations upon the Ark
