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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.
When some poor people fell into the hands o• a Pilate, our Saviour saw cause to preach a Sermon about Repentance thereupon: What less than a Sermon can be called for when some poor Children have lately fallen into the hands of a Devil? tho' thanks be to our David, the Lambs are like to be delivered from the Hellish Monsters to which they were become a Prey. And this may seem the rather convenient, because the godly Father of the Children has desired it. For which cause the Text before us may be proper to be insisted on.
When some poor people fell into the hands o• a Pilate, our Saviour saw cause to preach a Sermon about Repentance thereupon: What less than a Sermon can be call'd for when some poor Children have lately fall'n into the hands of a Divel? tho' thanks be to our David, the Lambs are like to be delivered from the Hellish Monsters to which they were become a Prey. And this may seem the rather convenient, because the godly Father of the Children has desir'd it. For which cause the Text before us may be proper to be insisted on.
The Great GOD had three several times declared that the Nation of the Amalekites was to be destroyed and extirpated forevermore. King Saul was now employed in an Expedition against them, to accomplish that Prediction, and to execute the Vengeance of Heaven upon the present Generation of them, not only for their own Cruelty and Villainy, but also for the Wickedness o• their Ancestors four hundred years before. The Sovereign God had Anathematized every living thing among them, and ordered that both M•• ⟨p. 3⟩and Beast should fall in the day of Slaughter. The Army, on I know not what pretence, did not ••serve this Commission, for which reason Samuel […] now sent unto their Leader with dismal Rebukes and heavy Tidings for his Disobedience. In the Text before us, the Prophet aggravates the Sin of Saul;