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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. VI.
That there are Daemons. And possessed persons. Signs of such. Some Maniacs are Demoniacs. Notwithstanding many fabulous Stories about Witch crafts, that there are Witches proved by three Arguments. That Houses are sometimes troubled by Evil Spirits. Witchcraft often the cause of it. Sometimes by the Devil without Witchcraft; ordered by providence as a punishment for sin. The disturbance in Walton's house further considered; with a parallel Story. That the things related in the preceding Chapter were undoubtedly preter-natural and Diabolical. Page 168.
That there are Daemons. And possessed persons. Signs of such. Some Maniacks are Daemoniacks. Notwithstanding many fabulous Stories about Witch crafts, that there are Witches proved by three Arguments. That Houses are sometimes troubled by Evil Spirits. Witchcraft often the cause of it. Sometimes by the Devil without Witchcraft; ordered by providence as a punishment for sin. The disturbance in Walton's house further considered; with a parallel Story. That the things related in the preceding Chapter were undoubtedly preter-natural and Diabolical. Page 168.
CHAP. VII.
Concerning Apparitions. That they are