 Increase Mather was born in Dorchester MA and died in Boston. He was
the son of Richard Mather and father to Cotton Mather. He received his B.
A. from Harvard in 1656 and his M. A. from Trinity College, Dublin in
1658. He served as a pastor in Devonshire, England. When he returned to
Boston in 1661, he became teacher of Boston’s Second Church. He was
asked to be the president of Harvard, but would not resign his pastorate
to do so.
He was a staunch critic, along with his son, of the Half-Way Covenant,
but eventually accepted it. Still, he rejected Stoddard’s views on the
Lord’s Supper and wrote vehemently against them. |
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