The Witchcraft Delusion in New England: Its Rise, Progress, and Termination (Vol. 2 of 3) — John Shaqi
The Witchcraft Delusion in New England: Its Rise, Progress, and Termination (Vol. 2 of 3)Mather, Cotton
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The Witchcraft Delusion in New England: Its Rise, Progress, and Termination (Vol. 2 of 3)
Mather, Cotton
Witchcraft -- New England
HAVING as yet Received no Answer to my last, touching the Doctrinals
therein referred to, tho' at the delivery of it, you were pleased to
promise the Gentleman that presented it, that I should have it, and
after that you acqainted the same Gentleman that you were about it. The
length of time since those promises, makes me suppose you are preparing
something for the Press (for I would not question your veracity) do
think it may not be amiss, when you do any thing of that Nature for the
publick view, that you also explain some passages of some late Books of
yours and your Relations, which are hard to be understood, to Instance
in a few of many Wonders of the _Invisible World_, pag. 17. [Plagues
_are some of these woes with which the Devil causes our Trouble_, pag.
18. _Hence come such Plagues as that besom of destruction which within
our Memory swept away such a throng of People from one_ English city,
_in one Visitation. Wars are some of those woes with which the Devil
causes our Trouble_, pag. 16. _Hence 'tis that the Devil like a Dragon
keeping a Guard upon such Fruits as would refresh a Languishing World,
has hindered Mankind for many Ages from hitting upon those usefull
Inventions. The benighted World must Jogg on for thousands of Years,
without the knowledge of the Load-stone, Printing and Spectacles_,
pag. 10, _It is_ [28] _not likely that every Devil does know every
Language. 'Tis possible the Experience, or if I may call it so, the
Education of all Devils is not alike; Cases of conscience_, page 63.
_The Devil has inflicted on many the Disease call'd_ Lycanthropia.[53]
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