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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
A Discourse: ON The Wonders of the Invisible World. › Proposition 2: Proposition II.
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Proposition II.
There is a Devilish Wrath against Mankind, wit• which the Devil is, for Gods Sake Inspired. Th• ⟨p. 11⟩Devil is himself broiling under the intolerable and interminable Wrath of God; and a fiery Wrath at God, is that with which the Devil is for that cause Inflamed. Methinks I see the posture of the Devils in Isa. 8.21. They fret themselves, and Cur•e their God, and look upward. The first and chief Wrath of the Devil, is at the Almighty God Himself; He knows, The God that made him, will not have m••cy on him, and the God that formed him, w••l show him no favour; and so he can have no Kindness for that God, who has no Mercy, nor Favour for him. Hence 'tis, that he cannot bear the Name of God should be Acknowledged in the World; Every Acknowledgement paid unto God, is a fresh Drop of Fuming Brimstone falling upon the Devil; He dos make his Insolent, tho' Impotent Batteries, even upon the Throne of God Himself: and foolishly affects to have himself exalted unto that Glorious High Throne, by all people, as he sometimes is, by Exer•a••le Witches. This horrible Dragon do's not only with •is Ta•l st•ike at the Stars of God, but at the God Himself, who made the Stars, b•ing desirous to outshine them all. God and the Devil are swo•n Enemies to each other; the Terms between them, are those, in Zech. 11.18. My Soul loathed them, and their Soul also Abhorred me. And from this Furious Wrath, or Displeasure and Prejudice at God, proceeds the Devils Wrath at us, the poor Children of Men. Our doing the Service of God, is one thing that Exposes us to the Wrath of the Devil.