SOURCE: "Cotton Mather," in The Devil Discovered: Salem Witchcraft 1692, Hippocrene Books, 1991, pp. 37-55.
In the following excerpt, Robinson compares the actions of Increase Mather to those of his son Cotton Mather during the witch trials.
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