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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.
CHAP. III.
Of Remarkables about Thunder and Lightning. One at Salisbury in New-England struck dead thereby. Several at Marshfield. One at North-Hampton. The Captain of the Castle in Boston. Some Remarkables about Lightning in Roxborough, Wenham, Marble-head, Cambridge, Hampton: And in several Vessels at Sea. Some late parallel Instances. Of several in the last Century. Scripture Examples of Men slain by Lightning. Page 72.
CHAP. IV.
Some Philosophical Meditations. Concerning Antipathies and Sympathies. Of the Load-stone. Of the nature and wonderful effects of Lightning. That Thunderstorms 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 above all disquieting fears, with respect unto such terrible Accidents. P. 99.