Cotton Mather

Cotton Mather (1663-1728) ministered to the Second Church, Boston, in New England, from 1685 to 1728, publishing widely on numerous topics, including his famous account of the Salem witch trials in 1693 (Wonders of the Invisible World) and his history of early America, Magnalia Christi Americana (1702). Reference here is to Mather’s Student and Preacher, (originally titled Manuductio ad Ministerium) (1726), which was reprinted in London in 1781 in an edition by John Collett Ryland, most likely the same edition of the work that belonged to Fuller’s library (see Appendix A).