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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. 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.
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 Ted worth in England. Concerning ⟨image ?⟩another in Hartford, and of one in Portsmouth in New-England lately disquieted by Evil Spirits. An account of the Woman at Kitry molested with Apparitions, and sometimes tormented by invisible Agents. Page 135.