Mather, Samuel (2)
Mather, Samuel
(1), brother of Increase Mather, was born in Lancashire, England, May 13, 1626; gralduated at Harvard College in 1643; was for some time assistant pastor to Rev. Mr. Rogers, in Rowley; and was pastor of the North Church, Boston, in 1649. In 1650 he returned to England, and was appointed chaplain of Magdalen College, Oxford; preached in Scotland and Ireland; went to Dublin in 1655, and became senior fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, and minister of the Church of St. Nicholas. Soon after the Restoration he was suspended on a charge of sedition, but afterwards continued to preach to a small congregation privately. He died Oct. 29, 1671. Mr. Mather held the first rank as a preacher. He published Sermons and Tracts: Old Testament Types Explained and Improved (Lond. 1673, 4to), rewritten by Caroline Fry, as Gospel of the Old Testament (1833, 1851): Life of Nathaniel Matrher (1689). See Drake, Dict. of Amer. Biog. s.v.; Darling, Cyclop. Bibliog. vol. ii, s.v.
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Mather, Samuel (2)
(2), D.D., minister of the Trinitarian Congregational Church, son of Cotton Mather, was born in Boston, Oct. 30, 1706; graduated at Harvard College in 1723, having studied theology probably under the direction of his father; was licensed to preach, and in 1732 became colleague-pastor with the Rev. Mr. Gee, of the Second Church in Boston, and was ordained in the same year. In 1741 a dissatisfaction arose against him in this church, partly from the charge of looseness of doctrine, and also of impropriety of conduct, and he, with the smaller part of his membership, withdrew, and established a separate Church in Hanover Street, on the corner of North Bennet. The fact, says Robbins, in his History of the Second Church, that so many persons of good character supported Mr. Mather, affords good reason to doubt whether the charges of impropriety were well founded. He sustained his relation as pastor of Hanover Street Church usntil his death, June 27,1785. Dr. Mather published A Sermon on the Death of Cotton Mather (1728): Life of Cotton Mather (1729): An Essay concerning Gratitude (1732): Vita A. H. Franckii, cui adjecta est narratio rerum memorabilium in Ecclesiis Evangelicis per Germaniam, etc. (1733): An Apology for the Liberties of the Churches in New England (1738): and Sermons on various Subjects (1738, 39, 40, 51, 53, 60, 2, 66, and 68. Also a Poem, in five parts, The Sacred Minister, by Aurelius Prudentius Americanus (1773): Answer to a Pamphlet entitled Salvation for all Men (1782). Sprague, Annals Amer. Pulpit, 1:371.