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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 4: Proposition IV.
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Proposition IV.
Most Horrible Woes come to be inflicted upon Mankind, when the Devil do•s in Great Wrath, make a Descent upon them. The Devil, is a Do-Evil, and wholly set upon mischief. When Our Lord once was going to Muzzle him, that he might not mischief others, he cried out, Art thou come to Torment me? He is, it seems, himself Tormented, it he be but Restrained from the Tormenting of Men. If upon the Sounding of the Three last Apocalyptical Angels, it was an outcry made in Heaven, Woe, Woe, Woe, to the inhabitants of the Earth by reason of the voice of the Trumpet. I am sure, a Descent made by the Angel of Death, would give cause for the like Exclamation: Woe to the World, by reason of the Wrath of the Devil! What a Woeful plight, Mankind would by the Descent of the Devil, be brought into, may be gathered from the Woeful pains, and wounds, and hideous desolations, which the Devil brings upon them, of whom he has with a Bodily Possession made a Seizure. You may both in Sacred and Profane History, read many a direful Account of the Woes, which they, that are possessed by the Devil, do undergo: And from thence conclude, What must the Children of Men, hope from such a Devil! Moreover the Tyrannical Ceremonies, whereto the Devil uses to subjugate such Woeful Nations or Orders of men, as are more Entirely under his Dominion, do declare what Woeful Work, the Devil would make where he ⟨p. 16⟩comes. The very Devotions of those forlorn Pagans, to whom the Devil is a Leader, are most bloody Penances: and what Woes indeed must we expect from such a Devil of a Moloch, as relishes n• Sacrifices like those of Humane Heart-Blood, and unto whom there is no music like the bitter, dying, doleful Groans, ejulated by the Roasting Children of men.