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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.
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.
These Tormentors, tendred 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.
The afflicted Wretches were horribly Distorted and Convulsed; they were Pinched Black and Blew; Pins would be run every where in their Flesh; they would be scalded until they had Blisters raised on them; and a thousand other things before Hundreds of Witnesses were done unto them, evidently Preternatural: For, if it were Preternatural, to keep a rigid Fast, for Nine, yea, for Fifteen Days together; or, if it were Preternatural, to have ones Hands tied close together, with a Rope to be plainly seen, and then by unseen Hands presently pulled up a great way from the Earth, before a crowd of People: Such Preternatural Things were endured by them.
The afflicted Wretches were horribly Distorted and Convulsed; they were Pinched Black and Blew; Pins would be run every where in their Flesh; they would be scalded until they had Blisters raised on them; and a thousand other things before Hundreds of Witnesses were done unto them, evidently Praeternatural: For, if it were Praeternatural, to keep a rigid Fast, for Nine, yea, for Fifteen Days together; or, if it were Praeternatural, to have ones Hands ty'd close together, with a Rope to be plainly seen, and then by unseen Hands presently pull'd up a great way from the Earth, before a croud of People: Such Praeternatural Things were endured by them.