Salem Witchcraft and Cotton Mather: A Reply

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Historical magazine, 1869 - 91 頁
 

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第 21 頁 - And the soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits, and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people.
第 35 頁 - Therefore rejoice ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea ! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.
第 40 頁 - ... a canoe to the shore. Yea, there were two testimonies that GB with only putting the forefinger of his right hand into the muzzle of an heavy gun, a fowlingpiece of about six or seven foot barrel, did lift up the gun, and hold it out at arm's end...
第 33 頁 - ... his prayer (which he concluded by repeating the Lord's prayer) was so well worded, and uttered with such composedness, and such (at least seeming) fervency of spirit, as was very affecting, and drew tears from many, so that it seemed to some that the spectators would hinder the execution.
第 15 頁 - Presumptions whereupon persons may be committed, and much more convictions whereupon persons may be condemned as guilty of witchcrafts, ought certainly to be more considerable...
第 26 頁 - The first of April also Mercy Lewis aforesaid saw in her Fit a White Man, and was with him in a glorious Place, which had no Candles nor Sun, yet was full of Light and Brightness ; where was a great Multitude in White glittering Robes...
第 7 頁 - When I first arrived I found this Province miserably harrassed with a most Horrible witchcraft or Possession of Devils which had broke in upon several Towns, some scores of poor people were taken with preternatural torments some scalded with brimstone some had pins stuck in their flesh others hurried into the fire and water and some dragged out of their houses and carried over the tops of trees and hills for many Miles together...
第 41 頁 - Is it not your Master? How comes your Appearance to hurt these? Martin. How do I know? He that appeared in the Shape of Samuel, a glorified Saint, may appear in any one's Shape.
第 15 頁 - The afflicted state of our poor neighbours, that are now suffering by molestations from the invisible world, we apprehend so deplorable, that we think their condition calls for the utmost help of all persons in their several capacities.
第 58 頁 - the darkness of that day, the tortures and " lamentations of the afflicted, and the power of "former precedents, that we walked in the "clouds and could not see our way...

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