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Memorable providences, relating to witchcrafts and possessions. A faithful account of many wonderful and…
Memorable providences, relating to witchcrafts and possessions. A faithful account of many wonderful and surprising things, that have befallen several bewitched and possessed persons in New-England. Particularly, a narrative of the marvellous trouble and relief [sic] experienced by a pious family in Boston, very lately and sadly molested with evil spirits. : Whereunto is added, a discourse delivered unto a congregation in Boston, on the occasion of that illustrious providence. : As also a discourse delivered unto the same congregation; on the occasion of an horrible self-murder committed in that town. : With an appendix, in vindication of a chapter in a late book of remarkable providences, from the calumnies of a Quaker at Pen-silvania [sic]. / Written by Cotton Mather, Minister of the Gospel. ; And recommended by the Ministers of Boston and Charleston.Memorable providences, relating to witchcrafts and possessions. A faithful account of many wonderful and surprising things, that have befallen several bewitched and possessed persons in New-England. Particularly, a narrative of the marvellous trouble and releef [sic] experienced by a pious family in Boston, very lately and sadly molested with evil spirits. : Whereunto is added, a discourse delivered unto a congregation in Boston, on the occasion of that illustrious providence. : As also a discourse delivered unto the same congregation; on the occasion of an horrible self-murder committed in that town. : With an appendix, in vindication of a chapter in a late book of remarkable providences, from the calumnies of a Quaker at Pen-silvania [sic]. / Written by Cotton Mather, Minister of the Gospel. ; And recommended by the Ministers of Boston and Charleston.
Boston: printed by R.P. i.e, 1689
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.
A Discourse on the Power and Malice of the DEVILS
1. Pet. V. 8. Your Adversary the Devil, as a Roaring Lion walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.
IT is a Relation made by David of an Encounter by him once met withal in 1. Sam. 17. 34. Thy Servant kept his Father's sheep, and there came a Lion and took a Lamb out of the Flock. There is an horrid Lion by which your souls are pursued and endangered: This Lion fetched away, after a very dismal manner, one, that was with us, when this Flock was last before the Lord; and he seeks, he longs he roars, in that or same way to make a Prey of all. I am keeping my Father's sheep, and would labour to •es•ne from the hellish Lion every […] that may lie in his way. Accept therefore the Text now read, as, The […] of the Lord.
IT is a Relation made by David of an Encounter by him once met withal in 1. Sam. 17. 34. Thy Servant kept his Father's sheep, and there came a Lion and took a Lamb out of the Flock. There is an horrid Lion by which your souls are pursued and endangered: This Lion fetch'd away, after a very dismal manner, one, that was with us, when this Flock was last before the Lord; and he seeks, he longs he roars, in that or same way to make a Prey of all. I am keeping my Father's sheep, and would labour to •es•ne from the hellish Lion every 〈…〉 that may ly in his way. Accept therefore the Text now readd, as, The of the Lord.