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Magnalia - contains a history of the settlement of
New England, biographies of eminent men, a history
of Harvard College, reports on the New England
churches + their controversies, + a description of
divine providences. Mather began the Magnalia in
1693 + had largely finished it by 1696. The
Magnalia was an effort ot confirm the certainty
that Christ would triumph in America. Like his
fore bears, C. Mather had a vision of New England as
a theocratic Eden where piety dominated all lives,
but he lived in an increasingly secular age, amid
congrations that welcomed the weakening of
the Puritan Way.

Book VI Thaumaturgus: Vel Liber Memorabilium.
Chapt. 1 p. 3 (begins)
Chapt. 5 p. 23 (begins)
I - XII p. 49 ends
Chapt. 7 p. 88 ends (Mmmmmm1)

Few New Englanders had an ancestry brighter or more
godly than Cotton Mather's. His grandfathers, Richard
Mather + John Cotton were founders of the New England
church + state. His father, Increase, was President of
Harvard + the most celebrated divine in New England.
- Magnalia Christi Americana was printed in
London but the errata leaf, a bifolium was
printed in Boston in 1702 + tipped into only
a few copies of the book. It's very rare.