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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. VIII. Several Cases of Conscience considered. That it is not lawful to make use of Herbs or Plants to drive away Evil Spirits. Nor of Words or Characters. An Objection answered. Whether it be lawful for Persons Bewitched to burn things, or to nail Horse-shoes before their ⟨image 205⟩doors or to stop Urine in Bottles, or the like' in order to the recovery of Health. The negative proved by several Arguments. Whether it be lawful to try Witches by casting them into the Water. Several reasons evincing the vanity of that way of probation. Some other Superstitions witnessed against. Page 248.
CHAP. VIII. Several Cases of Conscience considered. That it is not lawful to make use of Herbs or Plants to drive away Evil Spirits. Nor of Words or Characters. An Objection answered. Whether it be lawful for Persons Bewitched to burn things, or to nail Horse-shoes before their ⟨image 205⟩doors or to stop Vrin in Bottles, or the like' in order to the recovery of Health. The negative proved by several Arguments. Whether it be lawful to try Witches by casting them into the Water. Several reasons evincing the vanity of that way of probation. Some other Superstitions witnessed against. Page 248.
CHAP. IX. A strange Relation of a Woman in Weigh-mouth in New-England that hath been Dumb and Deaf ever since she was three years old, who nevertheless hath a competent understanding in the mysteries of Religion; and is admitted to partake of the Sacrament. Some parallel Instances. Of ways to teach Deaf persons to speak. Of a Man in Hull in New-England under whose Tongue a Stone bred. Concerning that petrification, which Humane Bodies are subject to. That divers sorts of Animals have sometimes been formed in the Bodies of Men. Page 289.
CHAP. IX. A strange Relation of a Woman in Wey-mouth in New-England that hath been Dumb and Deaf ever since she was three years old, who nevertheless hath a competent understanding in the mysteries of Religion; and is admitted to partake of the Sacrament. Some parallel Instances. Of wayes to teach Deaf persons to speak. Of a Man in Hull in New-England under whose Tongue a Stone bred. Concerning that petrification, which Humane Bodies are subject to. That divers sorts of Animals have sometimes been formed in the Bodies of Men. Page 289.