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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
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.
I. Let us Avoid the Roaring Lion, who goes about seeking whom he may devour. Let us not be willingly in the way of Devils, who are even aiming at our Confusion.
First. Let us get from the Roaring Lion, by a sincere Turning to God in Christ. Hear & quake all you that are yet in your unregenerate estate; you are in the mouth of the Roaring Lion: Oh, how can you be satisfied or contented there? In Conversion, we are told in Act. 29. 18. men are turned from the power of satan unto God. Man, thou art under the under the power of satan, until thou art born again. O save thy self before it be too late. One once being ready to be devoured by a Lion, cried out, Help, help, I am yet alive! held, I am yet alive! O thou are yet alive, but ⟨p. 14⟩if thou art not quickly redeemed from the Lion, it will ere long be All too late! All too late! Quickly then Renounce the service of the Devil; Quickly loath, quickly leave all your Sins; Quickly run to God in Christ, and say unto Him as in Isa. 26. 13. O Lord our God, other lords besides Thee have had dominion over us, but not we will make mention of Thy Name alone.
First. Let us get from the Roaring Lion, by a sincere Turning to God in Christ. Hear & quake all you that are yet in your unregenerate estate; you are in the mouth of the Roaring Lion: Oh, how can you be satisfyed or contented there? In Conversion, we are told in Act. 29. 18. men are turned from the power of satan unto God. Man, thou art under the under the power of satan, until thou art born again. O save thy self before it be too late. One once being ready to be devoured by a Lion, cry'd out, Help, help, I am yet alive! held, I am yet alive! O thou are yet alive, but ⟨p. 14⟩if thou art not quickly redeemed from the Lion, it will ere long be All too late! All too late! Quickly then Renounce the service of the Devil; Quickly loath, quickly leave all your Sins; Quickly run to God in Christ, and say unto Him as in