The Witchcraft Delusion in New England: Its Rise, Progress, and Termination, (Vol. 1 of 3) — John Shaqi
The Witchcraft Delusion in New England: Its Rise, Progress, and Termination, (Vol. 1 of 3)Mather, Cotton
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The Witchcraft Delusion in New England: Its Rise, Progress, and Termination, (Vol. 1 of 3)
Mather, Cotton
Witchcraft -- New England
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.
PUblished by the Special
Command of His EXCELLENCY,
the Governour
of the Province of
the Massachusetts-Bay in
New-England.
_The Wonders of the Invisible World:_
Being an Account of the
+TRYALS+
OF
Several WWitches,
Lately Excuted in
+NEW-ENGLAND+:
And of several remarkable Curiosities therein Occurring.
Together with,
I. Observations upon the Nature, the Number, and the Operations of
the Devils.
II. A short Narrative of a late outrage committed by a knot of
Witches in _Swede-Land_, very much resembling, and so far
explaining, that under which _New-England_ has laboured,
III. Some Councels directing a due Improvement of the Terrible
things lately done by the unusual and amazing Range of
_Evil-Spirits_ in _New-England_.
IV. A brief Discourse upon those _Temptations_ which are the more
ordinary Devices of Satan.
By _COTTON MATHER_.
Published by the Special Command of his EXCELLENCY the Govenour of the
Province of the _Massachusetts-Bay_ in _New-England_.
Printed first, at _Boston_ in _New-England_; and Reprinted at _London_,
for _John Dunton_, at the _Raven_ in the _Poultry_. 1693.
Imprimatur.
Decmb. 23.
1692.
EDMUND BOHUN.[34]
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