The Lives of Increase Mather and Sir William Phipps (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Lives of Increase Mather and Sir William Phipps

In a series of volumes purporting to contain The Lives of the Chief Fathers of New England; it seemed quite indispensable that some account should be given of Richard Mather; and I knew not where a notice of him could be so well inserted, as here.

Then the life of Increase Mather is so intimately connected with that of his father and brothers, that, in order to a right understanding of the former, the reader needs, and must have, some acquaintance with the latter.

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