The Witchcraft Delusion in New England: The wonders of the invisible world, by C. MatherW. Elliot Woodward, 1866 |
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Seite 113 - Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath : neither give place to the devil.
Seite 117 - When a man's ways please the Lord, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.
Seite lviii - ... for, as in a secret murther, if the dead carkas be at any time thereafter handled by the murtherer, it will gush out of blood, as if the blood were crying to the heaven for revenge of the murtherer...
Seite 151 - ... crime. And such hath been the judgment of this kingdom, as appears by that Act of Parliament, which hath provided punishments proportionable to the quality of the offence. And desired them strictly to observe their evidence ; and desired the great God of Heaven to direct their hearts in the weighty thing they had in hand. For to condemn the innocent, and to let the guilty go free were both an abomination to the Lord.
Seite 239 - Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without ; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.
Seite 197 - ... him down by the hair of the head. When he rose again, he was going to strike at Richard Carrier, but fell down flat on his back to the ground and had not power to stir hand or foot until he told Carrier he yielded; and then he saw the shape of Martha Carrier go off his breast. This Toothaker had received a wound in the wars, and he now testified that Martha Carrier told him he should never be cured.
Seite 16 - Wherefore the devil is now making one attempt more upon us ; an attempt more difficult, more surprizing, more snarl'd with unintelligible circumstances than any that we have hitherto encountered ; an attempt so critical, that if we get well through, we shall soon enjoy halcyon days with all the vultures of hell trodden under our feet...
Seite xlv - O! (NE sort of such as are said to bee witches, are women which be commonly old, lame, bleare-eied, pale, fowle, and full of wrinkles ; poore, sullen, superstitious, and papists...
Seite 72 - And, behold, they cried out, saying, What have we to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God"? art thou come hither to torment us before the time ? 30 And there was, a good way off from them, an herd of many swine feeding.
Seite xciv - Carthagenia was of the mind, that unto those three things which the ancients held impossible, there should be added this fourth, to find a book printed without erratas. It seems the hands of Briareus, and the eyes of Argus will not prevent them...