A50149:172
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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The Ministers of the Province also being Jealous, left this Counsel should not be duly followed, requested the President of Harvard-College to Compose and Publish, (which he did) some Cases of Conscience referring to these Difficulties: In which Treatise he did, with Demonstrations of incomparable Reason and Reading evince it, That Satan may appear in the Shape of an Innocent and a Virtuous Person, to afflict those that suffer by the Diabolical Molestations: And that the Ordeal of the Sight, and the Touch, is not a Conviction of a Covenant with the Devil, but liable to great Exceptions against the lawfulness, as well as the Evidence of it: And that either a Free and Fair Confession of the Criminals, or the Oath of two Credible Persons proving such Things against the Person Accused, as none but such as have a Familiarity with the Devil can know, or do, is necessary to the Proof of the Crime. Thus,⟨p. 79⟩ Cum misit Natura Feras, & Monstra per Orbem, Misit & Alciden qui Fera Monstra domet.
The Ministers of the Province also being Jealous, left this Counsel should not be duly followed, requested the President of Harvard-Colledge to Compose and Publish, (which he did) some Cases of Conscience referring to these Difficulties: In which Treatise he did, with Demonstrations of incomparable Reason and Reading evince it, That Satan may appear in the Shape of an Innocent and a Virtuous Person, to afflict those that suffer by the Diabolical Molestations: And that the Ordeal of the Sight, and the Touch, is not a Conviction of a Covenant with the Devil, but liable to great Exceptions against the lawfulness, as well as the Evidence of it: And that either a Free and Fair Confession of the Criminals, or the Oath of two Credible Persons proving such Things against the Person Accused, as none but such as have a Familiarity with the Devil can know, or do, is necessary to the Proof of the Crime. Thus,⟨p. 79⟩ Cum misit Natura Feras, & Monstra per Orbem, Misit & Alciden qui Fera Monstra domet.