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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. V. Concerning things Preternatural, which have happened in New-England. A Remarkable Relation about Ann Cole of Hartford. Concerning several Witches in that Colony. Of the Possessed Maid at Groton. An account of the House in Newbury lately troubled with a Daemon. A parallel Story of an House at Tedworth in England. Concerning ⟨image 204⟩another in Hartford, and of one in Portsmouth in New-England lately disquieted by Evils Spirits. An account of the Woman at Kitry molested with Apparitions, and sometimes tormented by invisible Agents. Page 135.
CHAP. V. Concerning things Praeternatural, which have hapned in New-England. A Remarkable Relation about Ann Cole of Hartford. Concerning several Witches in that Colony. Of the Possessed Maid at Groton. An account of the House in Newbery lately troubled with a Daemon. A parallel Story of an House at Tedworth in England. Concerning ⟨image 204⟩another in Hartford, and of one in Portsmouth in New-England lately disquieted by Evils Spirits. An account of the Woman at Kitry molested with Apparitions, and sometimes tormented by invisible Agents. Page 135.
CHAP. VI. That there are Daemons. And possessed persons. Signs of such. Some Maniacs are Demoniacs. Notwithstanding many fabulous Stories about Witchcrafts, that there are Witches proved by three Arguments. That Houses are sometimes troubled by Evil Spirits. Witchcraft often the cause of it. Sometimes by the Devil without Witchcraft; ordered by providence as a punishment for sin. The disturbance in Walton's house further considered; with a parallel Story. That the things related in the preceding Chapter were undoubtedly preter-natural and Diabolical. Page 168.
CHAP. VI. That there are Daemons. And possessed persons. Signs of such. Some Maniacks are Daemoniacks. Notwithstanding many fabulous Stories about Witchcrafts, that there are Witches proved by three Arguments. That Houses are sometimes troubled by Evil Spirits. Witchcraft often the cause of it. Sometimes by the Devil without Witchcraft; ordered by providence as a punishment for sin. The disturbance in Walton's house further considered; with a parallel Story. That the things related in the preceding Chapter were undoubtedly preter-natural and Diabolical. Page 168.