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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 › USE of the Third Proposition.
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And that may be a Caution to every one of us. This in short, Since Rebellion is like Witchcraft,
And that may be a Caution to every one of us. This in short, Since Rebellion is like VVitchcraft,
O Let us not make light of any Rebellion against the Almighty GOD. Particularly,
First, Let not a Course of Rebellion be followed-by us. It is the Course of unregenerate men, to be daily doing those things, for which the wrath of God comes upon the children of disobedience. When God requires, Repent of Sin, they do rebel and reply, No, I have loved Idols, and after them I will go. When God requires, Believe on Christ, they do rebel and reply. No, I will not have this man to reign over me. They rebel against all the divine Commands of Love to God or Love to Man; They rebel against all the Precepts of the Lords, which are to be esteemed concerning all things to be Right. And they love ⟨p. 33⟩every false way. O Consider of this, ye stranger to the new-Birth; Consider what you are doing, consider where you are going every day. I would now say, alluding to that in Dan. 4. 27. O soul, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break off thy sins. You have been doing of Iniquity; O now say, I will do so no more.
First, Let not a Course of Rebellion be followed-by us. It is the Course of unregenerate men, to be daily doing those things, for which the wrath of God comes upon the children of disobedience. When God requires, Repent of Sin, they do rebel and reply, No, I have loved Idols, and after them I will go. When God requires, Beleeve on Christ, they do rebel and reply. No, I will not have this man to reign over me. They rebel against all the divine Commands of Love to God or Love to Man; They rebel against all the Precepts of the Lords, which are to be esteemed concerning all things to be Right. And they love