Chapter XXXV: Book I: Part II

I. Samuel Sewall: _Diary_ (printed in _Mass. Hist. Soc. Col._, Series 5, Vols. 5-7). No life has been written.

II. Increase Mather: The extensive bibliography is confused, and a definitive list is being prepared by T. J. Holmes and G. P. Winship. Few works have been reprinted, and about the only available title is _Illustrious Providences_ (Boston and London, 1684; London, 1687); under title of _Remarkable Providences_ (London, 18561, 1890).

The authoritative life is by Kenneth B. Murdock, _Increase Mather, The Foremost American Puritan_ (Harvard University Press. 1925; with bibliography). See also Williston Walker, _Ten New England Leaders_ (New York, 1901).

Cotton Mather: The bibliography is enormous, but few titles are available. _The Wonders of the Invisible World_ (Boston, 1693) has been twice reprinted: with title, _Salem Witchcraft ..._ and notes by S. P. Fowler (Cambridge, 1861); and with I. Mather’s _Account of the Tryals of the New-England Witches_ (Library of Old Authors, London, 1862). _The Bostonian Ebenezer_, Boston, 1698, was reprinted in Old South Leaflets, Boston, 1896. The _Magnalia Christi Americana_, London, 1702, was reissued (2 vols., Hartford and New Haven, 1820); and the same with notes by T. Robbins, and translations of foreign quotations by L. F. Robinson, and a life by S. G. Drake (Hartford, 1853). The _Essays to Do Good_ has been reprinted ten times, the latest editions London, 1842, and Boston, 1845. The most available text is _Selections from Cotton Mather_, edited with introduction, by K. B. Murdock (New York, 1926; American Authors Series).

The best life is by Barrett Wendell, _Cotton Mather, Puritan Priest_ (New York, 1891; Harvard University Press, 1925). See also A. P. Marvin, _The Life and Times of Cotton Mather_ (Boston, 1892).

III. John Wise: _The Churches Quarrel Espoused ..._ (Boston, 1710, 1715, 1745, 1772); reissued with the _Vindication_, with introduction by J. S. Clark (Boston, 1860). _A Vindication of the Government of the New-England Churches. Drawn from Antiquity; the Light of Nature; Holy Scripture ..._ (Boston, 1717, 1772); reissued with the preceding title (Boston, 1860).

No life of Wise has been written.