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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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APPENDIX
There are one or two passages in the first of our foregoing Histories, which I fore-see, (those usually no less Absurd than Angry people) the Quakers, will come upon me with great wrath, for my writing of and the Incivilities lately shown to my Father, for a piece of one Chapter in his Book of Remarkable Providences, by one Keith, in a sort of a thing newly published at Pen-silvania, have made it necessary for me, not only to explain my self, but to defend him, upon the occasion that is now before me.
THere are one or two passages in the first of our foregoing Histories, which I fore-see, (those usually no less Absurd than Angry people) the Quakers, will come upon me with great wrath, for my writing of and the Incivilities lately shown to my Father, for a piece of one Chapter in his Book of Remarkable Providences, by one Keith, in a sort of a thing newly published at Pen-silvania, have made it necessary for me, not only to explain my self, but to defend him, upon the occasion that is now before me.
As for what I have related concerning the strange liberty which the Devils gave unto John Goodwin's Children, to enjoy both the Writings and the Meetings of the Quakers, when offers thereof were (it may be too needlessly) made unto ⟨p. 2⟩to them, I need only acquaint the world, that I shall produce good, legal, & sufficient Evidence to Confront what I do Affirm, whenever any man shall demand it of me; And that the Books with which the Trial happened to he made, were more than one, and such, as the Quakers give as general an Allowance to, as to their own Primers and their Catechisms. But undoubtedly, the matchless Candour and Sweetness of the Quakers will inspire them, with Inclinations to give me some of their public Thanks for the notice I have taken of them; and in the mean time I must let my Neighbours understand, what ridiculous as well as odious Calumnies the Quakers have bestowed upon my absent Father, for his being an Historian (they think) unto their Prejudice.