Category: History - American
Entered according to Act of Congress in the Year 1865, By SAMUEL G. DRAKE, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts.
COTTON MATHER was born in Boston, February 12th, 1662-3. In his Youth he was remarkable for his Progress in Knowledge, and soon became extensively known for his varied Acquireme...
21. Part 21III. _High Stations_ in the Church of God, lay men open to violent and peculiar _Temptations_ of the Devil. When our Lord was upon the _Pinacle_, that is not the _Fane_, or _Spi...
17. Part 17VII. One Mr. _Ruck_, Brother-in-Law to this _G. B._ testified, that _G. B._ and he himself, and his Sister, who was _G. B's_ Wife, going out for two or three Miles to gather Str...
3. Part 3The Succession of James to the Throne of Elizabeth served but to propagate the Contagion; for no sooner had he reached this Country, than his Dæmonologie reappeared from an Engl...
16. Part 16The Witches were Executed; and _Confessed_ nothing; which indeed will not be wondred by them, who Consider and Entertain the Judgment of a Judicious Writer, _That the Unpardonab...
15. Part 15_VIII._ Lastly, Shake off, every Soul, shake off the _hard Yoak_ of the Devil. Where 'tis said, _The whole World lyes in Wickedness;_ 'tis by some of the Ancients rendred, _The...
5. Part 5"On April 18, the People were so driving and furious, that unheaded they began to seize our public Oppressors: upon which the Gentlemen aforesaid found it necessary to appear th...
2. Part 2In James's Book he lays down Rules for determining who were Witches, and great Numbers were executed in Pursuance of those Rules. No sooner was that benighted King seated upon t...
22. Part 22[157] Often spelt _Bligh_. A Brick-maker of Salem. His Wife was Rebecca, Daughter, probably, of Deac. Charles Gott, by whom he had a large Family. The Names of his Children are...
8. Part 8To say no more, there is a published and credible Relation; which affirms, That very lately in a part of _England_, where some of the Neighbourhood were quarrelling, a _Raven_ f...
20. Part 20NINETEEN Witches have been Executed at _New-England_, one of them was a Minister, and two Ministers more are Accus'd. There is a hundred Witches more in Prison, which broke Pris...
18. Part 18VI. _Robert Downer_[167] testifi'd, That this Prisoner being some Years ago prosecuted at Court for a Witch, he then said unto her, _He believed she was a Witch_. Whereat she be...
23. Part 23Devil, I, xi; teaches the Black Art, xii; how he creates Witches, xv; Nature of his Covenant with, xviii-xix; exists by God's Permission, xx; the Principal in Witchcraft, but ca...
7. Part 7[7] § II. The _New-Englanders_ are a People of God settled in those, which were once the _Devil's_ Territories; and it may easily be supposed that the _Devil_ was exceedingly di...
11. Part 11But besides all these things, and besides the increase of _Plagues_ and _Wars_, and _Storms_, and _Internal Maladies_ now in our days, there are especially two most extraordinar...
10. Part 10_Proposition II._ There is a Devilish _Wrath_ against _Mankind_, with which the _Devil_ is for _God's sake_ Inspired. The Devil is himself broiling under the intollerable and in...
19. Part 19VII. _Phebe Chandler_[185] testify'd, that about a Fortnight before the apprehension of _Martha Carrier_, on a Lordsday, while the Psalm was singing in the _Church_, this _Carri...
1. Part 1Entered according to Act of Congress in the Year 1865, By SAMUEL G. DRAKE, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts.
14. Part 14_III._ Inasmuch as the Devil is come down in _Great Wrath_, we had need Labour, with all the Care and Speed we can to Divert the _Great Wrath_ of Heaven from coming at the same...
9. Part 9O that instead of letting our Hearts _Rise_ against one another, our Prayers might _Rise_ unto an high pitch of Importunity, for such a _Rising_ of the Lord! Especially, Let the...
12. Part 12There is _little room_ for hope, that the _great wrath_ of the Devil, will not prove the present ruine of our poor _New-England_ in particular. I believe, there never was a poor...
13. Part 13That the Devil is _come down unto us with great Wrath_, we find, we feel, we now deplore.[114] In many ways, for many years hath the Devil been assaying to Extirpate the Kingdom...
6. Part 6III. 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 BETT...
24. Part 24Parris, Samuel, Protest against, ii, 141-3; long and humble Acknowledgment, 143-8; Ministers and Elders of the Churches recommend his Acknowledgment be accepted, 149-51; further...