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The threefold paradise of Cotton Mather : an edition of "Triparadisus"

Title
The threefold paradise of Cotton Mather : an edition of "Triparadisus" / edited by Reiner Smolinski.
Author
Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.
Publication
Athens : University of Georgia Press, ©1995.

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Additional Authors
Smolinski, Reiner.
Description
xvii, 526 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Uniform Title
Triparadisus
Alternative Title
Triparadisus
Subject
  • 1700-1799
  • Eschatology > Early works to 1800
  • Millennialism > New England > History > Sources
  • Theology, Doctrinal > New England > 18th century
  • Eschatology
  • Millennialism
  • Theology, Doctrinal
  • Chiliasmus
  • Eschatologie
  • Paradijs
  • Eschatologie
  • New England
Genre/Form
  • Early works
  • History
  • Sources
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Abbreviations of Cotton Mather's Works -- pt. I. Introduction. 1. The Authority of the Bible and Cotton Mather's "Triparadisus: A Discourse Concerning the Threefold Paradise" 2. The "New" Hermeneutics and the Jewish Nation in Cotton Mather's Eschatology. 3. The Bang or the Whimper? The Grand Revolution and the New World to Come. 4. When Shall These Things Be? Cotton Mather's Chronometry of the Prophecies -- pt. II. The Text. The First Paradise. The Second Paradise. The Third Paradise. I. The Present Earth, perishing in a Conflagration. II. Plain Praedictions of the Conflagration, in other Passages of the Sacred Scriptures, besides the Petrine Prophecy. III. What may be called, A Digression, [But is none] offering, A Golden Key to open the Sacred Prophecies. IV. The Sibylline Oracles, concerning the Conflagration. V. Traditions of the Conflagration, with All Nations, in All Ages. VI. Signs of the Conflagration coming on. VII. The Conflagration described. VIII. The Conflagration, How Reasonably to be look'd for. IX. The New Heavens opened. X. The New Earth survey'd. XI. A National Conversion of the Jews; Whether to be look'd for. XII. When shall these Things be! When the Grand Revolution to be look'd for? -- Appendix A: Manuscript Cancellations and Interpolations -- Appendix B: Editorial Emendations -- Appendix C: Biblical Citations and Allusions.
ISBN
  • 0820315192
  • 9780820315195
LCCN
92029850
OCLC
  • ocm26541787
  • 26541787
  • SCSB-2045202
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library