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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.
The Story of the Familiarity which was between Dr. Dee and Kellet, with the Spirits which used to appear to them, is famously known. Those Daemons would pretend to discover rare Mysteries to them, and at ••nes would give them good Advices in many things, so that they verily thought they had had extraordinary communion with Holy Angels, whena• it is certain they were deceived by subtle and unclean. Devils, since the spirits they conversed with, did at last advise them to break the seventh Commandment of the Moral Law. Satan to insinuate himself and carry on a w••ked design, will sometimes seem to persuade Men unto great Acts of Piety.
The Story of the Familiarity which was between Dr. Dee and Kellet, with the Spirits which used to appear to them, is famously known. Those Daemons would pretend to discover rare Mysteries to them, and at ••nes would give them good Advices in many things, so that they verily thought they had had extraordinary communion with Holy Angels, whena• it is certain they were deceived by subtile and unclean. Devils, since the spirits they conversed with, did at last advise them to break the seventh Commandment of the Moral Law. Satan to insinuate himself and carry on a w••ked design, will sometimes seem to perswade Men unto great Acts of Piety.
Remigius (and from him others) write of a young Man whose Name was Theodore Maillot, unto whom a Daemon appearing, advised him to reform his life, to abstain from Drunkenness, Thefts, Uncleanness, and the like evils; and to Fast twice a Week, to be constant in attendance upon public worship, and to be very charitable to the Poor.
Remigius (and from him others) write of a young Man whose Name was Theodore Maillot, unto whom a Daemon appearing, advised him to reform his life, to abstain from Drunkenness, Therts, Uncleanness, and the like evils; and to Fast twice a Week, to be constant in attendance upon publick worship, and to be very charitable to the Poor.