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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 › Application 1: USE. I. INFORMATION.
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USE. I. INFORMATION.
There are two Lessons that we may learn from these things. We may say after the Apostle in •. Job. 3. 15. In this the children of God are manifest and the children of the Devil.
There are two Lessons that we may learn from these things. We may say after the Apostle in •. Iob. 3. 15. In this the children of God are manifest and the children of the Devil.
First. We may see from hence, who the children of the devil are. Roaring Lions that go about seeking whom they may devour, what are they but the creatures whom the Devil is a Sire unto? We read of one in Ezek. 19. 6. Who became a ⟨p. 12⟩young Lion and learned to catch the prey, & devoured men. Such Lions there often are in the world; sometimes there are men whose business, whose delight it is to devour their Neighbours; men who go about to impair the Estate, who go about to blemish the esteem, who go about to debauch the souls of other men. What shall be said of such men? Alas, the Devil is the Father of them all. I have no Blessing for any of them; but yet I may say to them, This is a lions whelp, to the prey, my son, thou art gone up. This is just like the great old Lion: with him, even with him shall they one day he punished, and undergo the doom in