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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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Consider, Secondly, There is a sort of Witch. ⟨p. 34⟩craft come on you too. All that leave the way everlasting, and take a way of wickedness, they are bewitched; a grievous Witchcraft has seized upon them. The Apostle said to some in Gal. 3. 1. O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that you should not obey the Truth? This may be an Expostulation used with all ungodly men; O foolish Transgressors, who has bewitched you? I'll tell you who: Not an Hog, but a Lust has bewitched 'em. They that are bewitched, have a marvellous variety of calamity upon them. One while they can't see; that is thy case; Thou art wretched, but thou canst not see it; Christ is lovely, but thou canst not see him. One while they cannot hear; that is thy case; God calls, Look unto me and be saved; but thou hearest nothing of it. Another while they can't stir; that is thy case; The Lord Jesus calls, Come unto me, but thou movest not. Sometimes they are as it were, cut, & pricked, and distorted in their Limbs; the very same art thou in all the Faculties of thy soul. At other times they are pulled into the Fire, or into the Water, or thrown with violence upon the Ground; the like happens to thy unhappy soul; it is hurried thither, where the sire is not quenched; it is hurried thither where they groan under, the waters; it is also made to pant after the dust of the earth. The Drunken man is bewitched with strong Drink; the unclean man is bewitched with strange Flesh; the tongue of a Swearer is acted worse ⟨p. 35⟩than the tongue of a bewitched man; the covetous man is hideously bewitched with Bags & Lands.
Consider, Secondly, There is a sort of Witch. ⟨p. 34⟩craft come on you too. All that leave the way everlasting, and take a way of wickedness, they are bewitched; a grievous Witchcraft has siez'd upon them. The Apostle said to some in Gal. 3. 1. O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that you should not obey the Truth? This may be an Expostulation us'd with all ungodly men; O foolish Transgressors, who has bewitched you? I'le tell you who: Not an Hog, but a Lust has bewitched 'em. They that are bewitched, have a marvellous variety of calamity upon them. One while they can't see; that is thy case; Thou art wretched, but thou canst not see it; Christ is lovely, but thou canst not see him. One while they cannot hear; that is thy case; God calls, Look unto me and be saved; but thou hearest nothing of it. Another while they can't stirr; that is thy case; The Lord Jesus calls, Come unto me, but thou movest not. Sometimes they are as it were, cut, & prick't, and distorted in their Limbs; the very same art thou in all the Faculties of thy soul. At othertimes they are pulled into the Fire, or into the Water, or thrown with violence upon the Ground; the like happens to thy unhappy soul; it is hurried thither, where the sire is not quenched; it is hurried thither where they groan under, the waters; it is also made to pant after the dust of the earth. The Drunken man is bewitched with strong Drink; the unclean man is bewitch't with strange Flesh; the tongue of a Swearer is acted worse