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Memorable providences relating to witchcrafts and possessions a faithful account of many wonderful and…
Memorable providences relating to witchcrafts and possessions a faithful account of many wonderful and surprising things that have befallen several bewitched and possessed person in New-England, particularly a narrative of the marvellous trouble and relief experienced by a pious family in Boston, very lately and sadly molested with evil spirits : whereunto is added a discourse delivered unto a congregation in Boston on the occasion of that illustrious providence : as also a discourse delivered unto the same congregation on the occasion of an horrible self-murder committed in the town : with an appendix in vindication of a chapter in a late book of remarkable providences from the calumnies of a Quaker at Pen-silvania / written by Cotton Mather ... and recommended by the ministers of Boston and Charleston.Memorable providences relating to witchcrafts and possessions a faithful account of many wonderful and surprising things that have befallen several bewitched and possesed person in New-England, particularly a narrative of the marvellous trouble and releef experienced by a pious family in Boston, very lately and sadly molested with evil spirits : whereunto is added a discourse delivered unto a congregation in Boston on the occasion of that illustrious providence : as also a discourse delivered unto the same congregation on the occasion of an horrible self-murder committed in the town : with an appendix in vindication of a chapter in a late book of remarkable providences from the calumnies of a Quaker at Pen-silvania / written by Cotton Mather ... and recommended by the ministers of Boston and Charleston.
Boston: printed by R.P., 1689
Discourses › A Discourse on the Power and Malice of the DEVILS
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Prop. IV. The devils are also cruel Adversaries of our souls. The Devil is not only a Lion, but a roaring, an hungry, an angry Lion. Yes, according to that in Rev. 20. 2. he is not only a Lion, but a Dragon too. He will have no more mercy than a Lion, he will have no more mercy than a Dragon upon all that comes in the way of his cruel Clutches. 'Twas the description of the Chaldeans in Hab. 1. 6. That bitter and hasty nation. To the devils does it much more belong; they are a Bitter and a cruel nation. Never was there such a merciless and a pitiless Tyrant as the devil is, nothing so much pleases that bloody monster, as the pain and the death of our unhappy ⟨p. 10⟩souls; and he has no Music like the groans of a deadly wounded man. What a Prodigy of Cruelty was the Roman Emperor, who wished that all his people had but one neck, that he might cut it off at a blow! Why the cruel Devil not only wished, but in Paradise he had & he did such an horrid thing. And it is he that inspires vile men with all the Cruelty that their Inquisitions, and their Tortures give example of.
Prop. IV. The devils are also cruel Adversaries of our souls. The Divel is not only a Lion, but a roaring, an hungry, an angry Lion. Yes, according to that in Rev. 20. 2. he is not only a Lion, but a Dragon too. He will have no more mercy than a Lion, he will have no more mercy than a Dragon upon all that comes in the way of his cruel Clutches. 'Twas the description of the Chaldaeans in Hab. 1. 6. That bitter and hasly nation. To the devils does it much more belong; they are a Bitter and a cruel nation. Never was there such a merciless and a pittiless Tyrant as the devil is, nothing so much pleases that bloody monster, as the pain and the death of our unhappy ⟨p. 10⟩souls; and he has no Musick like the groans of a deadly wounded man. What a Prodigy of Cruelty was the Roman Emperour, who wished that all his people had but one neck, that he might cut it off at a blow! Why the cruel Devil not only wished, but in Paradise he had & he did such an horrid thing. And it is he that inspires vile men with all the Cruelty that their Inquisitions, and their Tortures give exemple of.