Salem witchcaft : comprising More wonders of the invisible world, collected by Robert Calef, and Wonders of the invisible world, by Cotton Mather together with notes and explanations / by Samuel P. Fowler.

Date:
1865
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Credit: Salem witchcaft : comprising More wonders of the invisible world, collected by Robert Calef, and Wonders of the invisible world, by Cotton Mather together with notes and explanations / by Samuel P. Fowler. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    hinder, to this day, but the fame evil ways, or as bad, are ftill ufed to deted them by, and that even among proteftants; and are fo far juftified, that a reverend perfon has faid lately here, How elfe fhall we deted witches ? And another, being urged to prove by fcripture fuch a fort of witch as has power to fend devils to kill men, replied, that he did as firmly believe it, as any article of his faith; and that he (the in- quirer) did not go to the fcriptures to learn the myfteries of his trade or art. What can be faid more to eftablifti their heathenifh notions, and to vilify the fcriptures, our only rule ? and that, after we have feen fuch dire effeds thereof, as has threatened the utter extirpation of this whole country. And as to moft of the adors in thefe trage- dies, though they are fo far from defending their adions, that they will readily own that undue fteps have been taken, &c. yet it feems they choofe that the fame fhould be aded over again, enforced by their example, rather than it fhould remain as a warning to pofterity, as herein they have mift it. So far are they from giving glory to God, and taking the due fhame to themfelves. And now, to fum up all in a few words, we have feen a bigoted zeal ftirring up a blind and moft bloody rage, not againft enemies, or irre- ligious, profligate perfons ; but (in judgment of