God's responsibility: narrative choice and providential history in Mather's Biblia Americana commentary on Ezra.(Cotton Mather)

From: Early American Literature | Date: March 22, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I come not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.

--Matthew 10.34-36

And Ezra the priest stood up, and said unto them, Ye have transgressed, and have taken strange wives, to increase the trespass of Israel. Now therefore make confession unto the Lord God of your fathers, and do his pleasure, and separate yourselves from the people of the ...

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