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“Confined unto a Low Chair”: Reading the Particulars of Disability in Cotton Mather’s Miracle Narratives

“Confined unto a Low Chair”: Reading the Particulars of Disability in Cotton Mather’s... nicholas junkerman Skidmore College “Conn fi ed unto a Low Chair” Reading the Particulars of Disability in Cotton Mather’s Miracle Narratives In his Election Day sermon to the General Assembly of M-assa chusetts Bay on May 27, 1696, Cotton Mather prophesied the imminent a-r rival of the kingdom of God: “The Tidings which I bring unto you, are, at Th there is a REVOLUTION and a REFORMATION at the very Door, which will be vastly more Wonderful, than any of the Deliverances, yet seen by the Church of God” (Things 33−34). The evidence for this vision was drawn in part from scriptural calculation of the promised end of the Roman church, but Mather also saw prelusive glimmers of the millennium in recen- t won derful events. Now that the “Antichristian Apost”a was p sy lainly doomed, he had reason to believe God’s miraculous power was returning to the world: “For there seems as if there were an Age of Mir no aclew s Dawning upon us” (36). As in the last great age of miracles, in the days of the early church, these wonderful works were making themselves known in the very bodies of the faithful: Persons who have http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Early American Literature University of North Carolina Press

“Confined unto a Low Chair”: Reading the Particulars of Disability in Cotton Mather’s Miracle Narratives

Junkerman, Nicholas
Early American Literature , Volume 52 (1) – Mar 18, 2017
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nicholas junkerman Skidmore College “Conn fi ed unto a Low Chair” Reading the Particulars of Disability in Cotton Mather’s Miracle Narratives In his Election Day sermon to the General Assembly of M-assa chusetts Bay on May 27, 1696, Cotton Mather prophesied the imminent a-r rival of the kingdom of God: “The Tidings which I bring unto you, are, at Th there is a REVOLUTION and a REFORMATION at the very Door, which will be vastly more Wonderful, than any of the Deliverances, yet seen by the Church of God” (Things 33−34). The evidence for this vision was drawn in part from scriptural calculation of the promised end of the Roman church, but Mather also saw prelusive glimmers of the millennium in recen- t won derful events. Now that the “Antichristian Apost”a was p sy lainly doomed, he had reason to believe God’s miraculous power was returning to the world: “For there seems as if there were an Age of Mir no aclew s Dawning upon us” (36). As in the last great age of miracles, in the days of the early church, these wonderful works were making themselves known in the very bodies of the faithful: Persons who have

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