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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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The Third, namely the Boy, Remaining under some Annoyance by the evil spirits, a third Day was employed for him and he soon found the blessed effects of it in his Deliverance ⟨p. 44⟩There were several very memorable things attending this Deliverance of the Children, and the Vows, and the Pleas, used in the Prayers which were thereby answered, but they were all Private, yea, in a sort, Secret; Non est Religio ubi omnia patent; and I understand, (for I have some Acquaintance with him) That the Friend of the Children, whom God gave to be thus concerned and successful for them, desires me not to let Reports of those things go out of the Walls of a Study, but to leave them rather for the Notice of the other World. I think it will not be improper to tell the World, that one thing in the Children's Deliverance was the strange. Death of an horrible old Woman, who was presumed to have a great hand in their Affliction. Before her Death & at it, the Alms-House where she lived was terrified with fearful noises, and she seemed to have her Death hastened by dismal Blows received from the invisible World. But having mentioned this: all that I have now to publish is That Prayer and Faith, was the thing which drove the Devils from the Children; and I am to bear this Testimony unto the world, That the Lord is nigh to all them, who call upon him in truth, and, That blessed are all they that wait for Him. Finished, June 7th, 1689.
The Third, namely the Boy, Remaining under some Annoyance by the evil spirits, a third Day was employ'd for him and he soon found the blessed effects of it in his Deliverance ⟨p. 44⟩There were several very memorable things attending this Deliverance of the Children, and the Vowes, and the Pleas, used in the Prayers which were thereby answerd, but they were all Private, yea, in a sort, Secret; Non est Religio ubi omnia patent; and I understand, (for I have some Acquaintance with him) That the Friend of the Children, whom God gave to be thus concerned and successful for them, desires me not to let Reports of those things go out of the Walls of a Study, but to leave them rather for the Notice of the other World. I think it will not be improper to tell the World, that one thing in the Childrens Deliverance was the strange. Death of an horrible old Woman, who was presum'd to have a great hand in their Affliction. Before her Death & at it, the Alms-House where she lived was terrified with fearful noises, and she seem'd to have her Death hastened by dismal Blowes reveived from the invisible World. But having mentioned this: all that I have now to publish is That Prayer and Faith, was the thing which drove the Divels from the Children; and I am to bear this Testimony unto the world, That the Lord is nigh to all them, who call upon him in truth, and, That blessed are all they that wait for Him. Finished, Iune 7th, 1689.