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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 in this last age; especially in New-England. / By Increase Mather, teacher of a church at Boston in New-England. ; [Six lines of Scripture texts]
Boston: printed by Samuel Green, 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.
Meteorolog.) speaketh of a Man, that going between Lapsia and Torga, was suddenly carried out of sight by a Thunder-storm, and never seen more. And the truth of our assertion, seems to be confirmed by one of those sad effects of Lightning mentioned in the preceding Chapter. For I am informed that when Matthew Cole was killed with the Lightning at North-hampton, the Daemons which disturbed his Sister Ann Cole (forty miles distant) in Hartford, spoke of it; intimating their concurrence in that terrible accident.
Meteorolog.) speaketh of a Man, that going between Lapsia and Torga, was suddenly carried out of sight by a Thunder-storm, and never seen more. And the truth of our assertion, seems to be confirmed by one of those sad effects of Lightning mentioned in the precedeing Chapter. For I am informed that when Matthew Cole was killed with the Lightning at North-hampton, the Daemo•s which disturbed his Sister Ann Cole (forty miles distant) in Hartford, spoke of it; intimating their concurrence in that terrible accident.
The Jewish Rabbins affirm, that all great and sudden Destructions are from Satan, the Angel of Death. That he has frequently an hand therein is past doubt. And if the fallen Angels are able (when God shall grant them a Commission) to cause fearful and fatal Thunders, it is much more true concerning the good and holy Angels, 2 King. 1. 14, 15. When the Law was given at Mount Sinai, ⟨p. 129⟩there were amazing Thunderings and Lightnings, wherein the great God saw meet to make use of the Ministry of Holy Angels, Act.7.53. Gal. 3.19. Heb. 2. 2. Some think that Sodom was destroyed by extraordinary Lightning. Its certain that Holy Angels had an hand in effecting that Desolation,