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Magnalia Christi Americana

Magnalia Christi Americana
Cotton Mather
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“Religion brought forth Prosperity, and the daughter destroyed the mother.”

Cotton Mather book Magnalia Christi Americana

Magnalia Christi Americana http://books.google.com/books?id=49JdS7NoSawC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Magnalia+Christi+Americana#PPA63,M1 (The Ecclesiastical History of New England), s. 63 (1702). Mather, commenting on the spiritual condition of the colonies, cited an old saying in Latin: Religio peperit Divitias, et filia devoravit matrem.

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