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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 WITCHCRAFT. › Proposition 3: PROP. III.
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PROP. III.
REBELLION against God has very much like to Witchcraft in it. Something like to Witchcraft there is in an Act of Rebellion; But a Course of Rebellion has much more like to Witchcraft in it. Some persons there are whose way ⟨p. 11⟩is that of wickedness, whose work is that of Iniquity. Those persons do what is like Witchcraft every day.
REBELLION against God has very much like to Witchraft in it. Something like to Witchcraft there is in an Act of Rebellion; But a Course of Rebellion has much more like to Witchcraft in it. Some persons there are whose way ⟨p. 11⟩is that of wickedness, whose work is that of Iniquity. Those persons do what is like Witchcraft every day.
For, First. In Rebellion, men cast off the Authority of God: The Witch declares a Will to be no more disposed & ordered by the Will of God; she says, God shall not be my Governor. Such is the Language of Rebellion. When men rebel against God. They say like him in Exod. 5. 2. I know not the Lord, and I will not obey His voice. They say like them in