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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. SAM. XV. 23. Rebellion is as the Sin of Witchcraft.
AS it is the Interest of all Christians to Consider the wondrous Works of God, so it is the Duty of all Ministers to study those of His Words, with a peculiar Application, at which His Works like Hands in the Margin thereof do point, with Endeavours to make their Hearers understand what Lessons of the former the Voices of the latter do more especially direct unto.
A pious Family in this Town has lately had befalling of it, a Providence full of many Circumstances very astonishing; a Providence, wherein the Power of GOD, the Success of Prayer, & the Existence with the Operation of Devils, has been demonstrated in a manner truly extraordinary; a ⟨p. 2⟩Providence, whereof you have heard much, but I have seen more, and whereof neither you nor I can take a due Notice, without a solemn Discourse at this time upon it. 'Tis a Tribute owing to God that I Dispense, and 'tis a Revenge due unto Satan that you should Attend the Truths proper to be delivered on an occasion so remarkable.