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
The Devils _Eldest Son_ seems to be towards the _End_ of his last
_Half-time;_ and if it be so, the Devils Whole-time, cannot but be very
near its _End_. It is a very scandalous thing that any _Protestant_,
should be at a loss where to find _the Anti-Christ_. But, we have a
sufficient assurance, that the Duration of _Anti-Christ_, is to be
but for a _Time_, and for _Times_, and for _Half a time;_ that is for
_Twelve Hundred and Sixty Years_. And indeed, those _Twelve Hundred
and Sixty Years_, were the very Spott of _Time_ left for the _Devil_,
and meant when 'tis here said, _He has but a short time_. Now, I
should have an _easie time_ of it, if I were never put upon an _Harder
Task_, than to produce what might render it extreamly probable, that
Anti-christ entred his last _Half-time_, or the last _Hundred_ and
_Fourscore_ years of his Reign, _at_ or soon _after_ the celebrated
_Reformation_ which began at the year 1517 in the former Century.[102]
Indeed, it is very agreeable to see how Antichrist then lost _Half_
of his Empire; and how that _half_ which then became _Reformed_, have
been upon many accounts little more than _Half-reformed_. But by
this computation, we must needs be within a very few years of such a
_Mortification_ to befal the See of _Rome_, as that Antichrist, who has
lately been planting (what proves no more lasting than) a _Tabernacle
in the Glorious Holy Mountain between the Seas_, must quickly, _Come to
his End and none shall help him_. [36] So then, within a very little
while, we shall see the Devil stript of the grand, yea, the last,
_Vehicle_, wherein he will be capable to abuse our World. The _Fires_,
with which, _That Beast_ is to be consumed, will so singe the Wings
of the _Devil_ too, that he shall no more set the Affairs of _this_
world on _Fire_. Yea, they shall both go into the same _Fire_, to be
_tormented for ever and ever_.
_The Second Conjecture._
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