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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
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And another thing that quickened them yet more to Act upon it, was, That the Afflicted were frequently entertained with Apparitions of Chosts at the same Time, that the Spectres of the supposed Witches troubled them: Which Christs always cast the Beholders into far more Consternation than any of the Spectres; and when they exhibited themselves, they cried out ⟨p. 75⟩of being Murdered by the Witchcrafts, or other Violences of the Persons represented in the Spectres. Once or Twice, these Apparitions were seen by others at the very same time that they showed themselves to the afflicted, and seldom were they seen at all, but when something unusual, and suspicious, had attended the Death of the Party thus appearing.
And another thing that quickned them yet more to Act upon it, was, That the Afflicted were frequently entertained with Apparitions of Chosts at the same Time, that the Spectres of the supposed Witches troubled them: Which Christs always cast the Beholders into far more Consternation than any of the Spectres; and when they exhibited themselves, they cryed out ⟨p. 75⟩of being Murdered by the Witchcrafts, or other Violences of the Persons represented in the Spectres. Once or Twice, these Apparitions were seen by others at the very same time that they shew'd themselves to the afflicted, and seldom were they seen at all, but when something unusual, and suspicious, had attended the Death of the Party thus appearing.
The Afflicted People, many times, had never heard any thing before of the Persons appearing in Ghost, or of the Persons Accused by the Apparitions; and yet the Accused upon Examination have confessed the Murders of those very Persons, though these Accused also knew nothing of the Apparitions, that had come in against them; and the Afflicted Persons likewise without any private Agreement or Collusion, when successively brought into a Room, have all asserted the same Apparitions to be there before them: These Murders did seem to call for an Enquiry.