Devil; Witchcraft -- Great Britain; Witchcraft -- United States
The Certainty of the World of Spirits, fully evinced by unquestionable
Histories of Apparitions and Witchcrafts, Operations, Voices, &c. Proving
the Immortality of Souls, the Malice and Misteries of the Devils and the
Damned, and the Blessedness of the Justified. Written for the Conviction
of Sadduces and Infidels by Richard Baxter.... London: Printed for T.
Parkhurst at the Bible and Three Crowns in Cheapside; and J. Salusbury at
the Rising Sun over against the Royal Exchange. 1691.
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 Grevious Molestations,
by Dæmons 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 Counsils,
Directing a due Improvement of the terrible things, lately done, by the
Unusual and Amazing Range of Evil Spirits, in Our Neighbourhood: and 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 by Benj. Harris for Sam Phillips. 1693.
A further Account of the Tryals of the New-England Witches. (Collected by
D. [Deodat] L. [Lawson]) ... To which is added Cases of Conscience
concerning Witchcrafts, and Evil Spirits personating Men. Written ... by
I. [Increase] Mather. 2 parts, London. 1693.
A Collection of Modern Relations of Matter of Fact, concerning Witches and
Witchcraft Upon the Persons of People. To Which is prefixed a Meditation
concerning the Mercy of God, in preserving us from the Malice and Power
of Evil Angels. Written by the late Lord Chief Justice Hale upon Occasion
of a Tryal of several Witches before him, Part 1. London: Printed for John
Harris, at the Harrow in the Poultry. 1693.
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