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THE WONDERS OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD:-- Page
The Author's Defence 3
Enchantments encountered 9
A DISCOURSE ON THE WONDERS OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD 38
An Hortatory and Necessary Address, to a Country now Extraordinarily Alarum'd by the Wrath of the Devil 79
A Narrative of an Apparition which a Gentleman in Boston had of his Brother, just then murthered in London 107
A Modern Instance of Witches discovered and condemned in a Tryal, before that celebrated Judge, Sir Matthew Hale 111
A Relation of a Few of the Matchless Curiosities which the Witchcraft presented 159
The First Curiositie 159
The Second Curiositie 161
The Third Curiositie 164
The Fourth Curiositie 165
Matter omitted in the Tryals 172
THE DEVIL DISCOVERED 172
Case proposed, What are those Usual Methods of Temptation with which the Powers of Darkness do assault the Children of Men? 174
Remarks upon the Three Remarkable Assaults of Temptations which the Devil visibly made upon our Lord 175
The First Temptation 175
The Second Temptation 183
The Third Temptation 192
A FURTHER ACCOUNT OF THE TRYALS OF THE NEW-ENGLAND WITCHES:--
Remarks of Things more than Ordinary about the Afflicted Persons 211
Remarks concerning the Accused 212
A Further Account of the Tryals of the New-England Witches, sent in a Letter from thence, to a Gentleman in London 214
CASES OF CONSCIENCE CONCERNING EVIL SPIRITS PERSONATING MEN, ETC.:--
An Address to the Christian Reader by Fourteen Influential Gentlemen 221
CASES OF CONSCIENCE CONCERNING WITCHCRAFTS 225
The First Case proposed, Whether or not may Satan appear in the Shape of an Innocent and Pious, as well as of a Nocent and Wicked Person, to afflict such as suffer by Diabolical Molestation? 225
The Affirmative proved from Six Arguments:--
Several Things offered against the Infallibility of this Proof:--
The Third Case considered, Whether there are any Discoveries of Witchcraft, which Jurors and Judges may with a safe Conscience proceed upon to the Conviction and Condemnation of the Persons under Suspicion? 269
Two things premised:--
That there are Proofs for the Conviction of Witches, which Jurors may with a safe Conscience proceed upon, proved from Scripture 275
That a Free and Voluntary Confession is a sufficient Ground of Conviction 276
That the Testimony of confessing Witches against others, is not so clear an Evidence as against themselves 279
That if two Credible Persons shall affirm upon Oath that they have seen the Person accused doing Things, which none but such as have familiarity with the Devil, ever did or can do, that's a sufficient ground of Conviction: and that this has often happened 282
Postscript 285
Being an Account of the TRYALS OF Several Witches, Lately Excuted in NEW-ENGLAND:
And of several remarkable Curiosities therein Occurring.
Together with,
Having performed something of what God required, in labouring to suit his Words unto his Works, at this Day among us, and therewithal handled a Theme that has been sometimes counted not unworthy the Pen, even of a King, it will easily be perceived, that some subordinate Ends have been considered in these Endeavours.
REVEREND AND DEAR SIR,
Your assured Friend,
WILLIAM STOUGHTON.
ENCHANTMENTS ENCOUNTERED.
They would have all due steps taken for the Extinction of Witches; but they would fain have them to be sure ones; nor is it from any thing, but the real and hearty goodness of such Men, that they are loth to surmise ill of other Men, till there be the fullest Evidence for the surmises. As for the Honourable Judges that have been hitherto in the Commission, they are above my Consideration: wherefore I will only say thus much of them, That such of them as I have the Honour of a Personal Acquaintance with, are Men of an excellent Spirit; and as at first they went about the work for which they were Commission'd, with a very great aversion, so they have still been under Heart-breaking Sollicitudes, how they might therein best serve both God and Man? In fine, Have there been faults on any side fallen into? Surely, they have at worst been but the faults of a well-meaning Ignorance. On every side then, why should not we endeavour with amicable Correspondencies, to help one another out of the Snares wherein the Devil would involve us? To wrangle the Devil out of the Country, will be truly a New Experiment: Alas! we are not aware of the Devil, if we do not think, that he aims at inflaming us one against another; and shall we suffer our selves to be Devil-ridden? or by any unadvisableness contribute unto the Widening of our Breaches?
AN ABSTRACT OF MR. PERKINS'S WAY FOR
THE DISCOVERY OF WITCHES.
A DISCOURSE ON THE WONDERS OF
THE INVISIBLE WORLD.
UTTERED ON AUG. 4, 1692.
AN HORTATORY AND NECESSARY ADDRESS,
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