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An essay for the recording of illustrious providences
An essay for the recording of illustrious providences wherein an account is given of many remarkable and very memorable events which have happened this last age, especially in New-England / by Increase Mather, teacher of a church at Boston in New-England.An essay for the recording of illustrious providences wherein an account is given of many remarkable and very memorable events which have hapned this last age, especially in New-England / by Increase Mather, teacher of a church at Boston in New-England.
printed by Samuel Green for Joseph Browning, 1684
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.
CHAP. IV.
Some Philosophical Meditations. Concerning Antipathies and Sympathies. Of the Lodestone. Of the Nature and Wonderful Effects of Lightning. That Thunder-Storms are often caused by Satan; and sometimes by good Angels. Thunder is the Voice of God, and therefore to be dreaded. All Places in the habitable World are subject to it more or less. No Amulets can preserve men from being hurt thereby. The miserable estate of Wicked Men upon this account, and the happiness of the Righteous, who may be •••ve all disquieting fears, with respect unto such terrible Accidents.
Some Philosophical Meditations. Concerning Antipathies and Sympathies. Of the Loadstone. Of the Nature and Wonderful Effects of Lightning. That Thunder-Storms are often caused by Satan; and sometimes by good Angels. Thunder is the Voice of God, and therefore to be dreaded. All Places in the habitable World are subject to it more or less. No Amulets can preserve men from being hurt thereby. The miserable estate of Wicked Men upon this account, and the happiness of the Righteous, who may be •••ve all disquieting fears, with respect unto such terrible Accidents.
Having thus far Related many Remarkable Providences, which have happened in these goings down of the Sun; and some of the particulars, (especially in the last Chapter) being Tragical Stories: The Reader must give me leave upon this occasion a little to divert and recreate my mind, with some Philosophical Meditations; and to conclude with a Theological Improvement thereof. There are Wonders in the Works of Creation as well as Providence, the reason whereof the most knowing amongst Mortals, are ⟨p. 100⟩