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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50139	Memorable providences relating to witchcrafts and possessions a faithful account of many wonderful and surprising things that have befallen several bewitched and possesed person in New-England, particularly a narrative of the marvellous trouble and releef experienced by a pious family in Boston, very lately and sadly molested with evil spirits : whereunto is added a discourse delivered unto a congregation in Boston on the occasion of that illustrious providence : as also a discourse delivered unto the same congregation on the occasion of an horrible self-murder committed in the town : with an appendix in vindication of a chapter in a late book of remarkable providences from the calumnies of a Quaker at Pen-silvania / written by Cotton Mather ... and recommended by the ministers of Boston and Charleston.	Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.	1689 (1689)	Wing M1123; ESTC W479486	78,489	164

have no right Impressions by these Memorable Providences made upon his mind yet I hope those that know what it is to be sober will not repent any pains that they may have taken in perusing what Records of these Witchcrafts Possessions I thus leave unto Posterity POSTSCRIPT YOU have seen the Trouble and the Relief of Iohn Goodwins Children After which the Daemons were let loose to make a fresh Attacque upon them tho not in a manner altogether so terrible afflictive as what they had before susteined All the Three Children were visited with some Return of their Calamities but the Boy was the Child which endured most in this New Assault He had been for some While kindly entertained with Mr. Baily at Watertown where he had enjoyed a long time of ease the Devils having given him but little Disburbance except what was for a short while after his first coming there He no sooner came Home but he began to be ill again with diverse peculiar Circumstances attending of him There was this particularly remarkable That the Boy dream't he had a Bone within his skin growing cross his Ribs and when he awaked he felt and found a thing there which was esteem'd a Bone by them that handled it only every one wondered how it should be lodged there An expert Chirurgeon Dr. Iohn Clark being advis'd with about it very dexterously took it out and it prov'd not the imagined Bone but a considerable Pin a brass Pin which could not possibly have come to ly there as it did withont the Prestigious Conveyance of a Misterious Witchcraft Another time on a Lord's Day his Father would have taken him to Meeting with him and when his Father spoke of going to some of the Assemblies in the Town particularly both the North and the South the Boy would be cast into such Tortures and Postures that he would sooner Dy than go out of doors but if his Father spoke of going to others of the Assemblies in the Town particularly the Quakers the boy in a moment would be as well as could be The tryal of this was more than five times repeated and were it fully related would be more than ten times Admired Our Prayers for the Children were justly renewed and I hope not altogether unanswered Upon one Prayer over two of them they had about a Fortnights ease and their Ails again returning Prayer was again awakened with some Circumstances not proper to be exposed unto the World. God gave a present Abatement hereupon to the Maladies of the Children and caused their Invaders to retire so that by degrees they were fully and quickly Delivered Two days of Prayer obtained the Deliverance of two The Third namely the Boy Remaining under some Annoyance by the evil spirits a third Day was employ'd for him and he soon found the blessed effects of it in his Deliverance There were several very memorable things attending this Deliverance of the Children and the Vowes and the Pleas used in the Prayers which were thereby answerd but they were all Private yea in a sort Secret Non est Religio ubi omnia patent and I understand for I have some Acquaintance with him That the Friend of the Children whom God gave to be thus concerned and successful for them desires me not to let Reports of those things go out of the Walls of a Study but to leave them rather for the Notice of the other World. I think it will not be improper to tell the World that one thing in the Childrens Deliverance was the strange Death of an horrible old Woman who was presum'd to have a great hand in their Affliction Before her Death at it the Alms-House where she lived was terrified with fearful noises and she seem'd to have her Death hastened by dismal Blowes reveived from the invisible World. But having mentioned this all that I have now to publish is That Prayer and Faith was the thing which drove the Divels from the Children and I am to bear this Testimony unto the world That the Lord is nigh to all them who call upon him in truth and That blessed are all they that wait for Him. Finished Iune 7th 1689. MANTISSA TO the foregoing Narrative we have added an account given us by the Godly Father of these Haunted Children who upon his Reading over so much of our History as was written of their Exercise before their full deliverance was willing to express his Attestation to the Truth of it with this further Declaration of the Sense which he had of the unusual Miseries that then lay upon his Family 'T is in his own Style but I suppose a Pen hath not commonly been managed with more cleanly Discourse by an Hand used only to the Trowel and his Condition hath been such that he may fairly have Leave to speak IN the year 1688. about Midsummer it pleased the Lord to visit one of my children with a sore Visitation and she was not only tormented in her Body but was in great distress of Mind Crying out That she was in the dark concerning her Souls estate and that she had mispent her precious time She and we thinking her time was near at an end Hearing those Shrieks and Groans which did not only pierce the ears but Hearts of her poor Parents now was a time for me to Consider with my self and to look into my own heart and and life and see how matters did there stand between God and my own soul and see Wherefore the Lord was thus contending with me And upon Enquiry I found cause to judge my self to justify the Lord. This Affliction continuing some time the Lord saw good then to double the affliction in smiting down another Child and that which was most heart breaking of all and did double this double affliction was it was apparent and judged by all that saw them that the Devil and his Instruments had a hand in it The consideration of this was most dreadful I thought of what David said 2 Sam. 24. 14. if he feared so to fall into the hands of Men oh then to think of the Horror of our condition to be in the Hands of Devils and Witches This our doleful condition moved us to call to our Friends to have pity on us for Gods Hand had touched us I was ready to say that no ones affliction was like mine That my little House that should be a little Bethel for God to dwell in should be made a Den for Devils that those little Bodies that should be Temples for the Holy Ghost to dwell in should be thus harrassed and abused by the Devil and his cursed Brood But how this twice doubled affliction is doubled again Two more of my Children are smitten down oh the Cries the Shrieks the Tortures of these poor Children Doctors cannot help Parents weep and lament over them but cannot ease them Now I considering my affliction to be more than ordinary it did certainly call for more than ordinary Prayer I