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truth_n	ghost_n	holy_a	son_n	6,613	5	5.5143	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50202	An essay for the recording of illustrious providences wherein an account is given of many remarkable and very memorable events which have hapned this last age, especially in New-England / by Increase Mather, teacher of a church at Boston in New-England.	Mather, Increase, 1639-1723.	1684 (1684)	Wing M1207; ESTC W479522	170,040	411

order to the perswading of him to a compliance with the Quakers and told him that it would strive with him as the Angel did with Iacob until the breaking of the Day at which time it left him The two next nights it gave him the same molestation saying it must be with him as it was with David who gave no sleep to his eyes nor slumber to his eye-lids until he found a place for the Lord an habitation for the mighty God of Iacob Upon Wednesday at night he was very peremptory in his resisting of it When it began to solicit him he replied that he saw it was a Spirit of delusion which he would not obey Upon which the Spirit deno●nced a Curse against him in these words Go ye Cursed into everlasting fire and so left him with a very great heat in his Body After this he was in his own apprehension in a very comfortable condition and while he was considering what had hapned a voice within him speake to him saying That the Spirit which was before upon him was a Spirit of Delusion but now the true Spirit of God was come into him It acquainted him that the Doctrine of the Trinity was true and that God had an Elect People and that those whom the Father Elected the Son hath Redeemed and when Christ Redeemeth the Holy Ghost Sanctifieth and told him that the Minister of the Town would further instruct him about the truth of these things Upon Thursday morning about break of day it set him upon his knees as he was in bed and bid him Farewel The same day it came upon him in the field as he was going to and coming from the Market pressed upon him to believe that it was the good Spirit which he was acted with which he still doubted of One night that week amongst many Arguments which it used to that purpose it told him if he would not believe without a sign he might have what sign he would Upon that Robert Church-man desired if it was a good Spirit that a Wier-Candlestick which stood upon the Cup-board might be turned into Brass which the Spirit said he would do Presently there was a very unsavoury smell in the Room like that of the snuff of a Candle newly put out but nothing else was done towards the fulfilling of the promise Upon the Lords Day following he then attending the publick Worship of God it came upon him When the Chapters were named he turned to them in his Bible but was not able to read When the Psalm was Sung he could not pronounce a syllable Upon Monday morning his Speech was wholly taken away from him When the Minister in that place came to him and asked him how it was with him he moved his head towards him but was not able to speak the Minister waited an hour or two in the Room hoping that his Speech might have returned unto him and that he might have gained from him some account of his condition But finding no alteration he desired those who were present to joyn with him in Prayer As they were Praying Churchman's Body was with much violence thrown out of Bed and then with great vehemency he called to the Minister Dr. Templar to hold his tongue When Prayer was done his Tongue was bound as before till at last he broke out into these words Thine is the Kingdom Thine is the Kingdom which he repeated as was judged above an hundred times Sometimes he was forced into extream Laughter sometimes into Singing his hands were usually imployed in beating his Breast All of them who stood by could discern unusual heavings in his Body This Distemper did continue towards the morning of the next day and then the voice within him signified to him that it would leave him 〈◊〉 him get upon his Knees in order to that end which he did and then presently he had a perfect command of himself When Dr. Templar came to him he gave a sober account of all the passages of the day before having a distinct remembrance of what the Spirit forced him to do and what was spoken to him by those that stood by In particular he told the Doctor that he was compelled to give him that disturbance in Prayer before-mentioned the Spirit using his Limbs and Tongue as it pleased contrary to the inclination of his own mind Upon the Thursday following the Spirit began to rage after its former manner as Dr. Templar was at Prayer with him it was very discernable how it wrought upon his Body forced him to grate his Teeth and draw his Mouth awry He told the Minister after he had done that it bid him to denounce woe against him It pleased God upon continuance in prayer with him at last to release him of all his trouble and so far to make it advantagious to him and to his Wife and some others which were too much by-assed with the Principles of the Quakers that now they have a perfect dislike of that way and do diligently attend upon the publick Worship of God Thus concerning this strange but true Relation We may by this judge whose Servants the singing Quakers are and what Spirit doth powerfully breath in and act those miserable and deluded Enthusiasts But I shall say no more to the Quakers at present only pray that such of them as have not sinned unto Death may have their eyes opened and if possible be delivered out of the snares of Satan by whom they are taken Captive at his will It hath been by many observed that Men addicted to horrid Cursings and Execrations have pulled down the imprecated vengeance of Heaven upon themselves Sundry very awful Examples of this kind have lately hapned I shall here mention one or two The hand of God was very Remarkable in that which came to pass in the Narraganset Countrey in New-England not many weeks since For I have good Information that on August 28 1683. A Man there viz. Samuel Wilson having caused his Dog to mischief his Neighbours Cattle was blamed for his so doing He denied the fact with Imprecations wishing that he might never stir from that place if he had so done His Neighbour being troubled at his denying the truth reproved him and told him he did very ill to deny what his Conscience knew to be truth The Atheist thereupon used the Name of God in his Imprecations saying He wished to God he might never stir out of that place if he had done that which he was charged with The words were scarce out of his mouth before he sunk down dead and never stirred more a Son in Law of his standing by and catching him as he fell to the ground A thing not unlike to this hapned though not in New-England yet in America about a year ago For in September 1682. A man at the Isle of Providence belonging to a Vessel whereof one Wollery was Master being charged with some deceit in a matter that had been committed to him in order to