Increase Mather's 'New Jerusalem': Millennialism in Late Seventeenth-Century New England.

Reproduces the "New Jerusalem," along with a lengthy introduction to Increase Mather and his writings. This document is critical for intellectual historians seeking to understand millennialism in 17th-century New England. The manuscript "establishes Mather's position on the specific conditions of the millennial paradise and shows clearly his premillennial faith in the future perfection of God's society of saints." This document was recently discovered at the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, Massachusetts. Primary and secondary sources; 110 notes.