{"id":42,"date":"2007-05-31T16:13:48","date_gmt":"2007-05-31T22:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/disciplinepunish\/2007\/05\/31\/mather\/"},"modified":"2007-05-31T16:13:48","modified_gmt":"2007-05-31T22:13:48","slug":"mather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/disciplinepunish\/mather\/","title":{"rendered":"Mather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>Propoganda<\/strong>&#8211; Mather\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s narrative reads like religious propaganda. <span>\u00c2\u00a0<\/span>The dying speeches of the repentant sound very crafted, calculated, and unauthentic.<span>\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>It does not seem realistic for a servant to blame his misery after murdering his master on his earlier disobedience to his parents, for example.<span>\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>The mutinous sailors, according to Mather, fell because \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Their education had been under the means of Grace, and the faithful preaching of the gospel in England; but they had sinned against that Education.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<span>\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>All of the stories are reduced to trite morals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>Jealous<\/strong>&#8211;<span>\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>Jealous is used here almost like vengeful.<span>\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>Mather talks repeatedly of a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153jealous\u00e2\u20ac\u009d God causing the downfalls of various sinners.<span>\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>In speaking of the revelation of a man\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s bestiality, Mather says \u00e2\u20ac\u0153By these means, the burning <em>Jealousy<\/em> of the Lord Jesus Christ, at length, <em>made the churches to know<\/em>, that He had all this while seen the Covered Filthiness of this Hellish Hypocrite\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<span>\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>The use of the word jealous has implications of a sort of human anger at being ignored which perhaps the church felt when it believed people were \u00e2\u20ac\u0153backsliding\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and transferred onto God.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>Impurity<\/strong>&#8211; Mather speaks of religious impurities throughout the chapter, but he also treats race and gender as impurities. <span>\u00c2\u00a0<\/span>When he speaks of Indians and blacks he implies an innate moral inferiority. <span>\u00c2\u00a0<\/span>He speaks especially often of the weakness of women, and how easily they succumb to sex and murder. <span>\u00c2\u00a0<\/span>He even uses class as a kind of impurity- servants trying to overthrow their masters are a theme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Propoganda&#8211; Mather\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s narrative reads like religious propaganda. \u00c2\u00a0The dying speeches of the repentant sound very crafted, calculated, and unauthentic.\u00c2\u00a0 It does not seem realistic for a servant to blame his misery after murdering his master on his earlier disobedience to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/disciplinepunish\/mather\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,94,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-impurity","category-jealous","category-propoganda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/disciplinepunish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/disciplinepunish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/disciplinepunish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/disciplinepunish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/disciplinepunish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/disciplinepunish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/disciplinepunish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/disciplinepunish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/disciplinepunish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}