Mather, a preacher, theologian, and historian, exercised great authority in early New England and still retains some of that authority today, for its clear description of the history of the region. Authority is a large part of Mather's argument in The Wonders of the Unseen World, used in his logos, logical arguments, and extrinsic and intrinsic ethos, and he often uses religion as proof of his authority, with references to America as "The Devil's Territories and the Puritans as God's Chosen," and all three rhetorical principles are used and interconnected. Cotton Mather uses both extrinsic (his expertise, education, and authority in the subject) and intrinsic (the manner in which he writes) ethos to reinforce his authority on the subject he is speaking about, combining these expressions of authority and of power with a logos and a pathos that we, future readers, may not find convincing but which would have been for the people of his time. His overall use of ethos, pathos, and logos is more focused on ethos and logos, with bits of pathos in forms that fit the religious approach taken by the majority of the colony's inhabitants. He often makes his point with logos, primarily using the forms of "claim or consequence" and "testimony and authority." He also uses religion as proof of his authority, and that of the New England Puritans in general, as shown in the first part of The Wonders of the Unseen World, "A People of God in the Devil's Territories." He says that "the people of New England are a people of God established in those which were formerly the territories of the devil...the devil was exceedingly troubled when he beheld such a people here fulfilling the promise of old." He goes on to talk about the methods used, he says, by the devil for middle of paper religion. In ethos, Mather uses God to give him and other Puritans authority. In pathos, religion is used to elicit reactions from the audience, with examples such as Phebe Chandler used to install these ideas and feelings in the form of victim testimonies. And in the logos, religion is used in "Testimony and Authority", one of the main devices he uses, citing God and Jesus as "good" religious figures against the devil, the "bad" religious figure. Mather also uses these devices separately, using the intrinsic and extrinsic ethos to give himself authority and make his authority more significant, using the consequence claim logos to give a clear backbone to his argument and the logos of analogy to give good convincing comparisons, and using witnesses. The testimonies and the outrages committed against them as levers and tools to chisel the emotions of the public into their pathos..