Cotton Mather
Cotton Mather
Cotton Mather, FRSwas a socially and politically influential New England Puritan minister, prolific author, and pamphleteer. Known for his vigorous support for the Salem witch trials, he also left a scientific legacy due to his hybridization experiments and his promotion of inoculation for disease prevention. He was subsequently denied the Presidency of Harvard College which his father, Increase, had held...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionReligious Leader
Date of Birth12 February 1663
CityBoston, MA
CountryUnited States of America
You are young and have the world before you; stoop as you go through it, and you will miss many hard bumps.
Wilderness is a temporary condition through which we are passing to the Promised Land.
Ignorance is the Mother not of Devotion, but of Heresy.
That there is a Devil, is a thing doubted by none but such as are under the influences of the Devil.
The Word of God must be Read and Heard with Diligence that so you may arrive to the Knowledge that is needful for you.
Ah! destructive Ignorance, what shall be done to chase thee out of the World!
Religion brought forth Prosperity, and the daughter destroyed the mother.
That there is a Devil is a thing doubted by none but such as are under the influence of the Devil. For any to deny the being of a Devil must be from ignorance or profaneness worse than diabolical.
What Must I Do to Be Saved? It is impossible to ask a more weighty Question! It is deplorable that we hear it asked with no more Frequency, with nor more Agony.
Our opportunities to do good are our talents.
There may be some so very Ignorant, that they know not how to Pray.
Charity ... is kind, it is not easily provok'd, it thinks no evil, it believes all things, hopes all things.