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Pietas in patriam the life of His Excellency Sir William Phips, Knt. late Captain…
Pietas in patriam the life of His Excellency Sir William Phips, Knt. late Captain General and Governor in Chief of the province of the Massachuset-Bay, New England, containing the memorable changes undergone, and actions performed by him / written by one intimately acquainted with him.Pietas in patriam the life of His Excellency Sir William Phips, Knt. late Captain General and Governour in Chief of the province of the Massachuset-Bay, New England, containing the memorable changes undergone, and actions performed by him / written by one intimately acquainted with him.
London: printed by Sam. Bridge for Nath. Hiller, 1697
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The Devils, which had been so played withal, and, it may be, by some few Criminals more Explicitly engaged and employed, now broke in upon the Country, after as astonishing a manner, as was ever heard of. Some scores of People, first about Salem, the Centre and first Born, of all the Towns in the Colony, and afterwards in several other Places, were arrested with many Preternatural Vexations upon their Bodies, and a variety of cruel Torments, which were ⟨p. 69⟩evidently inflicted from the Daemons of the Invisible World. The People that were infected and infested with such Daemons, in a few Days Time, arrived unto such a Refining Alteration upon their Eyes, that they could see their Tormentors; they saw a Devil of a little Stature, and of a Tawny Colour, attended still with Spectres, that appeared in more Humane Circumstances.
The Devils, which had been so play'd withal, and, it may be, by some few Criminals more Explicitely engaged and imployed, now broke in upon the Country, after as aftonishing a manner, as was ever heard of. Some scores of People, first about Salem, the Centre and first Born, of all the Towns in the Colony, and afterwards in several other Places, were arrested with many Praternatural Vexations upon their Bodies, and a variety of cruel Torments, which were ⟨p. 69⟩evidently inflicted from the Daemons of the Invisible World. The People that were infected and infested with such Daemons, in a few Days Time, arrived unto such a Resining Alteration upon their Eyes, that they could see their Tormentors; they saw a Devil of a little Stature, and of a Tawny Colour, attended still with Spectres, that appeared in more Humane Circumstances.
These Tormentors, tendered unto the Afflicted, a Book, requiring them to Sign it, or to Touch it, at least, in token of their consenting to be Listed in the Service of the Devil; which, they refusing to do, the Spectres under the command of that Blackman, as they called him, would apply themselves to Torture them, with prodigious Molestations.