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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
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The Letter-Forger had so foolishly drawn it up, That Randolph could not get the Blood of the Gentleman, whom he (after his manner, that is) falsely Charged with being the Author it, yet care was taken thereby to blast his Name: The Observator, (whom one calls The Father of Lies) here became Nurse, & printed it, with not a few scurrilous Observations on it. So that in all the Taverns and Coffee-houses throughout Three-Kingdoms, this innocent Person was made a Ridicule, and Barbados too, with other of the Lee-ward Islands, took this opportunity to spit their venom on one who had never done any thing to deserve it, bu• by being (in the account of some that are Both) somewhat of a Learned and Honest man. My Father to Vindicate himself, while our old Government yet lasted, wrote a Letter to Mr. Dudley, who had from White-Hall, Received a Copy of that bloody Forgery; and in this Vindication, he intimates that several shroud things would make him suspect Randolph himself to be the Director of it. It was Evident unto him That the whole forgery was contrived for Randolph's advantage; tis almost all of him and for him; but could any rational man imagine, that he was then wholly a stranger ⟨p. 10⟩to it? Besides there were in it several other Expressions, which (twas then thought no man in his Wits can dream that any without […] should have. But Randolph upon his arrival here with our New Government getting a Copy of my Fathers Vindication. dos after to many months now sue him in an Action of […], to Embarrass the Affairs he had before him. The Jury which consisted partly of Church of E. Gentlemen, Found for my Father against the Plaintiff. And yet just within a Week or two before his Voyage, Randolph renewed his Action; his Abetters resolving (as I am credibly informed) That having laid the Arrest upon him, they would have secured his Person in the Goal, as the worst of Traitors; for what illegality would they stick at? He happily understanding, what they would be at, by the counsel of his Friends withdrew, for about a week; and then, tho both by Day and Night, both by Land and Sea, the late Spirits among us way-laid him God carried him safely through them all; and when he came to Whitehall, what Favours the Greatest Men in the Kingdom have heaped upon him, 'tis not proper for me to tell.
The Letter-Forger had so foolishly drawn it up, That Randolph could not get the Blood of the Gentleman, whom he (after his manner, that is) falsly Charged with being the Authour it, yet care was taken thereby to blast his Name: The Observator, (whom one calls The Father of Lyes) here became Nurse, & printed it, with not a few scurrilous Observations on it. So that in all the Taverns and Coffee-houses throughout Three-Kingdoms, this innocent Person was made a Ridicule, and Barbados too, with other of the Lee-ward Islands, took this opportunity to spit their venome on one who had never done any thing to deserve it, bu by being (in the account of some that are Both) somewhat of a Learned and Honest man. My Father to Vindicate himself, while our old Government yet lasted, wrote a Letter to Mr. Dudley, who had from White-Hall, Received a Copy of that bloody Forgery; and in this Vindication, he intimates that several shrowd things would make him suspect Randolph himself to be the Director of it. It was Evident unto him That the whole forgery was contrived for Randolph's advantage; tis almost all of him and for him; but could any rational man imagine, that he was then wholly a stranger