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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.
Tho thou shouldst be in a Denful of them, yet Faith, true Faith would muzzle them all. By Faith repair to Christ, who is the true Sampson, which meets and slays the Lions that roar upon our souls. By Faith repair to the Rock, even to the Rock that is higher than I! Where you may sit and shout and laugh at all the Lions that roar in the Wilderness, and say, Where I am, there you cannot come.
Tho thou shouldst be in a Denful of them, yet Faith, true Faith would muzzle them all. By Faith repair to Christ, who is the true Sampson, which meets and slayes the Lions that roar upon our souls. By Faith repair to the Rock, even to the Rock that is higher than I! Where you may sit and shout and laugh at all the Lions that roar in the Wilderness, and say, Where I am, there you cannot come.
There are particularly two sorts of devouring Temptations, which I would conclude this Discourse with some suitable Reflections on.
There are particularly two sorts of devouring Temptations, which I would conclude this Disourse with some surable Reflections on.
Temptations to Atheism and Blasphemy, perhaps do molest some among us; possibly, Terribilia ⟨p. 18⟩de DEO, and Horribilia de Fide: Diabolical Suggestions about our God & our Creed, may cast some of us into grievous Agonies: these things make many a good man to say, I am aweary of my life! What shall in this case be done?