Demons were on the rampage, deploying witches in their evil attacks on righteous, Christian New Englanders. This was a battle which became manifest in church sermons and in the court room. That one wouldn’t occur for another half century. In the late seventeenth century a battle waged across New England. Title: The Wonders of the Invisible World, being an account of the tryals of several witches lately executed in New-England – From chapter four (“The Tryal of Elizabeth How”) of The Wonders of the Invisible World And sometimes the Confessions of the Witches afterwards acknowledged those very Murders, which these Apparitions charged upon them altho’ they had never heard what Informations had been given by the Sufferers.” Is, as I remember, the Learned Scribonius, who reports, That one of his Acquaintance, devoutly making his Prayers on the behalf of a Person molested by Evil Spirits, received from those Evil Spirits an horrible Blow over the Face: And I may my self expect not few or small Buffetings from Evil Spirits, for the Endeavours wherewith I am now going to encounter them.“It has been a most usual thing for the bewitched Persons, at the same time the Spectres representing the Witches, troubled them, to be visited with Apparitions of Ghosts, pretending to have been Murdered by the Witches then represented. Printed first, at Bostun in New-England and Reprinted at London, for John Dunton, at the Raven in the Poultry. Published by the Special Command of his EXCELLENCY the Govenour of the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England.
A brief Discourse upon those Temptations which are the more ordinary Devices of Satan.
Some Councels directing a due Improvement of the Terrible things lately done by the unusual and amazing Range of Evil-Spirits in New-England.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.Observations upon the Nature, the Number, and the Operations of the Devils.The Wonders of the Invisible World: Being an Account of theĪnd of several remarkable Curiosities therein Occurring.
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