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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
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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.
When some poor people fell into the hands of a Pilate, our Saviour saw cause to preach a Sermon about Repentance thereupon: What less than a Sermon can be called for when some poor Children have lately fallen into the hands of a Devil? tho' thanks be to our David, the Lambs are like to be delivered from the Hellish Monsters to which they were become a Prey. And this may seem the rather convenient, because the godly Father of the Children has desired it. For which cause the Text before us may be proper to be insisted on.
When some poor people fell into the hands of a Pilate, our Saviour saw cause to preach a Sermon about Repentance thereupon: What less than a Sermon can be call'd for when some poor Children have lately fall'n into the hands of a Divel? tho' thanks be to our David, the Lambs are like to be delivered from the Hellish Monsters to which they were become a Prey. And this may seem the rather convenient, because the godly Father of the Children has desir'd it. For which cause the Text before us may be proper to be insisted on.
The Great GOD had three several times declared that the Nation of the Amalekites was to be destroyed and extirpated forevermore. King Saul was now employed in an Expedition against them, to accomplish that Prediction, and to execute the Vengeance of Heaven upon the present Generation of them, not only for their own Cruelty and Villainy, but also for the Wickedness of their Ancestors four hundred years before. The Sovereign God had Anathematized every living thing among them, and ordered that both Man