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The wonders of the invisible world. Observations as well historical as theological, upon the…
The wonders of the invisible world. Observations as well historical as theological, upon the nature, the number, and the operations of the devils. : Accompanied with, I. Some accounts of the grievous molestations, by daemons and witchcrafts, which have lately annoyed the country; and the trials of some eminent malefactors executed upon occasion thereof: with several remarkable curiosities therein occurring. II. Some councils, directing a due improvement of the terrible things, lately done, by the unusual & amazing range of evil spirits, in our neighbourhood: & the methods to prevent the wrongs which those evil angels may intend against all sorts of people among us; especially in accusations of the innocent. III. Some conjectures upon the great events, likely to befall, the world in general, and New-England in particular; as also upon the advances of the time, when we shall see better days. IV. A short narrative of a late outrage committed by a knot of witches in Swedeland, very much resembling, and so far explaining, that under which our parts of America have laboured! V. The Devil discovered: in a brief discourse upon those temptations, which are the more ordinary devices of the Wicked One. / By Cotton Mather.The wonders of the invisible world. Observations as well historical as theological, upon the nature, the number, and the operations of the devils. : Accompany'd with, I. Some accounts of the grievous molestations, by daemons and witchcrafts, which have lately annoy'd the countrey; and the trials of some eminent malefactors executed upon occasion thereof: with several remarkable curiosities therein occurring. II. Some councils, directing a due improvement of the terrible things, lately done, by the unusual & amazing range of evil spirits, in our neighbourhood: & the methods to prevent the wrongs which those evil angels may intend against all sorts of people among us; especially in accusations of the innocent. III. Some conjectures upon the great events, likely to befall, the world in general, and New-England in particular; as also upon the advances of the time, when we shall see better dayes. IV. A short narrative of a late outrage committed by a knot of witches in Swedeland, very much resembling, and so far explaining, that under which our parts of America have laboured! V. The Devil discovered: in a brief discourse upon those temptations, which are the more ordinary devices of the Wicked One. / By Cotton Mather.
Boston : printed, and sold by Benjamin Harris, 1693 i.e., 1692
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II▪ Any other Acknowledgements of the Lord Jesus ⟨p. 21⟩Christ, will be permitted by the Temptations of the Devil, provided those Acknowledgements of Him, which are True and Fu••, may be thereby prevented. What was it, that the Devil hurried our Lord Jesus Christ unto the Top of the Temple for? Surely it could not merely be to •nd Precipices; any part of the Wilderness would have •fforded Them. No, it was rather to have Spectators. And why so? Why, the carnal Jews had an Expectation a•ong them; that Elijah was to fly from Heaven to the Temple; and the Devil seems willing, that our Lord ••ould be cried up for Elijah, among the giddy multitude; or any thing in the World, tho' never so considerable otherwise, rather than to be Received as, The Christ of God. The Devil will allow his Followers to think very ••ghly of the Lord Jesus Christ; O but he is very loth •o have them think, All. We read in Col. 1.19. It has ••eased the Father, that in Him there should all Fullness dwell. But it is pleasing to the Devil, that we Deny something of •he Immense Fullness, which is in our Lord. The Devil •ould confess to our Lord, Thou art the Holy One of God! •ut then he claps in, Thou art Jesus of Nazareth; which was to conceal our Lords being, Jesus of Bethlehem, and so, his being, The True Messiah. All the Heresies, and all the Persecutions, that ever plagued the Church of God, have still been, to strike at some Glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. A CHRIST Entirely Acknowledged, will save •he Souls of them that so Acknowledge Him; but, says •he Devil, Whatever I do, I must not give way to that. As hey say, the Devil makes Witches unable to utter all the Lords Prayer, or some such System of Religion, without some Depravations of it; thus the Devil will consent that we may make a very large Confession of the Lord Jesus Christ, only he will have us to deprave it, at least in some one Important Article. Some one Honour, some one