A Farewell Exhortation to the Church and People of Dorchester in New-England, but not unusefull to any others ... as containing Christian and Serious Indictments ... to be seriously Considered of all in these Declining Times. Cambridge, 1657. (12) Election Sermon. [Cambridge, 1660.] (13) A Plea for the Churches of New England, etc. [London], 1660. (14) A Defence of the Answer and Arguments of the Synod met at Boston, in the yeare 1662 . . . against Rev. J. Davenport; with an Answer, etc. Cambridge, 1664. [In conjunction with J. Mitchel.] (15) A Brief Relation ... of the Lord's Work among the Indians, etc. [n.d. and n. p.] (16) Sermons on 2 Peter. [?] (17) Journal. Now for the first time printed from the Original manuscript. In Young's Chronicles of the First Planters. 1846. (18) Journal of R. Mather, 1635. His life and death, 1670. Col. Dorchester Antiq. Soc. No. 3. 1850. (19) An Answer to two Questions: (1) Whether does the Power of Church Government belong to all the People, or to the Elders alone? (2) Whether does any Church Power, or any Power of the Keys belong to the People, etc. 17 12. [In conjunction with I. Mather.] (20) In manuscript: Three Theological Essays; Essay proving that Infants ought to be baptized; Observations and Arguments respecting our Government of Christian Churches; Answers to 21 Questions from the Gen. Court at Hartford to that at Boston; Sum of 70 Sermons. In the American Antiquarian Society Lib. Worcester, Mass.
B. Biography and Criticism
Mather, Increase. The Life and death of that reverend man of God, Mr Richard Mather, Teacher of the Church in Dorchester in New-England. Cambridge, 1670. Another edition, with title, Life and Death of Mr. Richard Mather, 1850.
Walker, Williston. Ten New England Leaders. 1901.
VII. Increase Mather (1639-1723)
The difficulties in the way of preparing a definitive list of the writings of Increase and Cotton Mather are practically insuperable. After an immense amount of work by the most painstaking antiquarians, the bibliography—and in particular that of Cotton Mather—remains somewhat muddled. The list as here printed of the works of Increase Mather, has been compressed from the elaborate bibliography published in J. L. Sibley's Harvard Graduates, supplemented by checking other lists.
A. Separate Works
(1) The Mystery of Israel's Salvation, Explained and Applyed: Or, A Discourse Concerning the General Conversion of the Israelitish Nation. Etc. London, 1669. (2) The Life and Death of that Reverend Man of God, Mr. Richard Mather, Teacher of the Church in New-England. Cambridge, 1670. (3) To the Church and Inhabitants of Northampton in N. E. Cambridge, 1671. [Prefixed to his brother Eleazar's Serious Exhortation to the Present and Succeeding Generations in New-England.] (4) Wo to Drunkards. Two Sermons Testifying against the Sin of Drunkenness: etc. Cambridge, 1673. Boston. 1712. (5) The Day of Trouble is near. Two Sermons Wherein is shewed . . . What reason there is for New-England to expect a Day of Trouble. Etc. Cambridge, 1674. (6) Some Important Truths About Conversion, Delivered in Sundry Sermons. London, 1674. Second ed., London, 1674. Boston, 1721. (7) To the Reader. Prefixed to S. Torrey's Exhortation unto Reformation. Boston, 1674.
