Memorable providences relating to witchcrafts and possessions a faithful account of many wonderful and…

POSTSCRIPT. YOU have seen the Trouble and the Relief of John Goodwins Children, After which the Daemons were let loose to make a fresh Attack upon them, tho not in a manner altogether so terrible & afflictive, as what they had before sustained. All the Three Children were visited with some Return of their Calamities; but the Boy was the Child which endured most in this New Assault. He had been for some While kindly entertained, with Mr. Baily at Watertown where he had enjoyed a long time of ease; the Devils having given him but little Disturbance, except what was for a short while after his first coming there. He no sooner came Home, but he began to be ill again, with diverse peculiar Circumstances attending of him. There was this particularly remarkable: That the Boy dreamed he had a Bone within his skin growing cross his Ribs; and when he awaked, he felt and found a thing there which was esteemed a Bone, by them that handled it; only every one wondered how it should be lodged there. An expert Chirurgeon, Dr. John Clark, being advised with about it, very dexterously took it out; and it proved not the imagined Bone, but a considerable Pin; a brass Pin, which could not possibly have come to lie there as it ⟨p. 43⟩did, without the Prestigious Conveyance of a Mysterious Witchcraft. Another time, on a Lord's Day his Father would have taken him to Meeting with him; and when his Father spoke of going to some of the Assemblies in the Town (particularly both the North and the South) the Boy would be cast into such Tortures and Postures, that he would sooner Die than go out of doors; but if his Father spoke of going to others of the Assemblies in the Town, particularly the Quakers, the boy in a moment would be as well as could be. The trial of this was more than five times repeated, and were it fully related, would be more than ten times Admired. Our Prayers for the Children were justly renewed, and I hope not altogether unanswered. Upon one Prayer over two of them, they had about a Fortnights ease; and their Ails again returning, Prayer was again awakened; with some Circumstances not proper to be exposed unto the World. God gave a present Abatement hereupon to the Maladies of the Children, and caused their Invaders to retire; so that by degrees they were fully and quickly Delivered. Two days of Prayer obtained the Deliverance of two.

POSTSCRIPT. YOU have seen the Trouble and the Relief of Iohn Goodwins Children, After which the Daemons were let loose to make a fresh Attacque upon them, tho not in a manner altogether so terrible & afflictive, as what they had before susteined. All the Three Children were visited with some Return of their Calamities; but the Boy was the Child which endured most in this New Assault. He had been for some While kindly entertained, with Mr. Baily at Watertown where he had enjoyed a long time of ease; the Devils having given him but little Disburbance, except what was for a short while after his first coming there. He no sooner came Home, but he began to be ill again, with diverse peculiar Circumstances attending of him. There was this particularly remarkable: That the Boy dream't he had a Bone within his skin growing cross his Ribs; and when he awaked, he felt and found a thing there which was esteem'd a Bone, by them that handled it; only every one wondered how it should be lodged there. An expert Chirurgeon, Dr. Iohn Clark, being advis'd with about it, very dexterously took it out; and it prov'd not the imagined Bone, but a considerable Pin; a brass Pin, which could not possibly have come to ly there as it