M. Mat Horrible Woes come to be inficted upon

WManlind, when the Divel do's in Great Wrath, make
) Defcest upon them. “Lhe Devel, isa Do-Evz1, and
{ivbolly fe upon mifchiehi When Our Lord once
Hvas going to Muzzel him, that he might not mit
Wehict others, he cryd out, Art thou come to Torm 1:
me? Fle isy it feeins, himfelf Tormented, if he be but
Refrained ftom the Tormenting of Men. If upon
tice Sounding of the Three laft pocalyptical Angels,
it Was an outcry qmade in Heaven, Wo, Wo, Wo, to
the inbabitants of the Earth by reafon of the voice of
the Trumpet.. 1am ture, a Defcent made by the An-
eel. of Death, would give cauie for the like Excla-
mation: Wo tothe World, by reafon of the Weath of the
Divel\ What a Wofel plight, Mankind wouid' by
j}che Defcent of the Divel, be brought into, may be
gathered from the Woful pains, and wounds, and.
hideous defolations, which the Divel bifags upon
‘them, of whom he has witha Boduly Poffeffion made
4 Siezure. You may both in Sacred and Profane
ap Littory, read: many a diretul Account of the Woes,
H which they, that are poffefled by the Divel, do un
i} dergo: And from thence conclude, What mujt the
Ml Childress of Men, hope from uch a Divel! Moreover
ip the Zyrannical Ceremonies, whereto the Divel ufes to
I fuubjugate firch /Vofu! Nations or Orders of men, as
:4re more Entirely under his Dominion, do declare
what /Voful Work, the Divel would make where he
ahh > . comes.

16 «Lhe MHonders of the
comes. The very Devotions of thofe. forlorn Pal‘
gans, to whom the Divel is a Leader,are moft bloos}
dy Penances: and what VVoes indeed mult we ext
pect from fuch a Divel of a Adcloch; as. relithes nat
Sacrifices like thofe of Hnmane Heart- Blood; and!?
unto whom there is no mufick like the bitter, dys]
ing dolefulGroans,cjulated by the Roafting Children!
of men. '
Fur thermore, the Servile,Abjea&t, Ne edy Circum
{tances wherein the Devil keeps the Slaves, that are]
under his. more tenfible Vaffallage, do fuggelt unto |
us, How wofui.the Devil would ‘render all of our |
Liv res. We that live in a Prov vince, which affordst
unto us, all that_may be Necefiary or Comfortable 4
for us, found the Province All'd wich .vaft Herds |
of Salvages, th that never jaw io mnch asa Kzife, or"
a Nail, or a Board, or a Grain of Salt, in all. their
By es. No better would the Devil have the Wor Id’
provided for ! Nor fhould we, or anv. elfe, have!
one convenient Phing about us ; but be as Indigent |
as ulually our moft Ragged VVitches are; if the t
Devils Malice were not over-ruled by a Compafii- ;
onate God, Who Preferves Aan and Beaft. Hence ' 1
tis, That the Devil, even like a Dragon, keeping a '
Guard upon tach Fraitsas would Refrefh a Tan. |
guihine World, has hindred Mankind for: many ‘|
Ages, trom bitting upon thofe ufefal Ix ventions,
ich yet were fo Obvious at ud Facil, that at: 18 eve-—
adic wonder, they were no fooner hit upon.
The Bemilted World, mutt jog on for Thoufands "
of Years, without the knowledge of the Eoadfiome, \
till a Neapolitan {tumbled upon it, about] i! hree Hun:

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| FJIuvifible WHorid 17
ijired years ago. Nor muft the world be bleft wich
\juch a matchlefs Engine of Learning and Vertue, as
(hat of, Prénting, till about the middle of the Pif-
eenth Century: Nor could one Old Man all
liver the Face of the whole Earth, have the benefit

ffuch a Littje, tho’ moft Needfw, Thing, as a pair
at Spectacles, till a Dutch-Man, a little while agoac- iE
ommodated us. Hi
Indeed, as the Bivel do's begrutch us all manner —
{if Good, {o he do’s Annoy us with all manner of
Vo, as often'as he finds himfelf capable of doing
But fhallvve mention fome of the fpecial woes
with which the Divel do’s ufually infeft the World?
reefly then 3 Plagues are fome of thofe woes, with
vhich the Divel troubles us. It is faid of the I/ra-
utes, in x. Cor. 10. 10 They were deftroyed of
pe deftroyer. Thatis, they had the Plague among
Inem. ° Tis the Deffreyer, or the Divel, that {Catters
}fagues about the World : Peftilential and Conta-
ious Difeafes, tis the Divel, who do‘s oftentimes
nvade us with them. ‘Tis no uneafy thing, for
ne. Divel, to impregnate the Air about us, with
ich’ Malignant Salts, as meeting with the Sst of
ur Mierecofin, fhall immediately caft us into that
ermentation and PutrefaGtion, which will utterly
iflolve all the Vital Tyes within us; Ev‘nas am
qua-Fortis, made with a conjun@ion of Nere and
tril, Corrodes what it Siezes upon. And when
ne Divel has raifed thofe Arfenical Furnes, whicl
coome Venemons Quivers full of Terrible Arrows,

ew <afly cag he fhoot the delstertous Afia/ins into
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thofe Juices or 'Bowels of Mens Bodies, which will}
foon Enflame them, with aMortalFire! Hence come }j
Much Plagues, as. that'Beefome of Deffrudtion which}

within our memory {wept away fuch a: Throng: offh

people from. One English City in one Viliration 3)

and hence thofe Infeious,Feavers; which. are

but fo many Difeuifed. Plagues among-us, Caufing +

Epademical Detolations. Again, ars are alfo fome)t

of thofe Ves; with. which the’ Diyel. caufes: our}

Trouble. . It.is-faid in Rev. 12.,178¢ The. Dragomy

was wroth, and went tomake war; And there is inip

Truth, fearce any Var, but what. is,of the Dragomsif

‘kindling. The Divelis that Valean; out of whofe

Forge come the iaftruments .of.our VVars, and. mp}

ishe that finds us Employments, for;.thofe Inftrux

ments. We read concerning Demoniacks, or peoplet
in-whom. the Devil.was, that.they would cut, and}
“wound themfelves sand fo, when -the.; Devil;is amy

Men, he puts ‘em/upon dealing ia,that. barbarous!

falhion with-one another. ) V//ars do. often ‘farnifh4

him with fome Thoufands'of Soulsin one.Morningy

from one. Acre.of Ground;.and.-for,the . fakes ol}

Mich Thye?ean Banguets, he wall.pufh us upon’ as'naa

ohy, WWarsias he-Caesstisocscnt Uadd 2 . gt

-..Once more, why, may net Storms.be rekoned, 4}

mong. thofe. Ves, with which,the-Devil dofs:idt

fSturb.us? It.is not improbable, that. Natural Storm
onthe World, are often of the Devils raifing...Wé
-are.told in Job, 1.11. 12, 19. that the Devil made
a Storm, which Hurricano‘d the Houle. of ‘fod,.0)
pon the Heads of them that..were feafting. ins
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cracel{us. could have informed the Devil, if he had
ot been informed, as be fure he was before, ‘That
much Aluminious matter, with Salt-Peter not
hroughly prepared, be mixed, they will fend up 2
loud of Smoke, which will come down in Rain.

Hut undoubtedly the Devil underftands as well

the way to make a Tempeff,asto turn the VVinds
|: the. Solicitation of a Laplander ; Whence perhaps

|
H; is, that Thunders are obferved oftner to break
Wjpon Churches, than upon any othet Buildings 3 and
iicfides many a Adan, yea many a Ship, yea many 2
i) 027 has mifcarried, when the Devil ha‘s been per-
(hitced from above to make an Horrible rempeff.
i Towever that the Divel has raifed many Metapho-
wi
here is nothing more notorious. It was faid unto
(ielievers, in Rev. 2. 10. The Devil fhall caft fome of
Now into Prifon. ‘The Devil was he that at firft fee
Vain upon’ Abel, to butcher. him, as the Apoftle
icems to fuggelt, for his Faith in God, asa Reware
Wer. And, in how many Perfecutions,‘as ‘well as
, | Terefies, has the Devil been ever fince Engaging all
Whe Children of Cain! That Serpent the Devil has
1). &ed his curfed Seed, in unwearied Endeavours to
ihave them,Of whom the World is not worthy, treated
ins thofe who are, Not Worthy to live im the World.
apy the Impulfé of the Devil, tis that firft the old
Weteathens, and then the mad Arians, were Pricking

Wp apifes that came after them, have out-done then
ill, for Slaughters, upon ae thaphave beets ecoun-
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cal Storms upon the Church, is a thing, than’ which

Weriars, to the true Servants of God; and that the

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20 ©. The wanders of the
ted as the {beep for the Slaughter. The late French
Perfecution, is perhaps, the Horritleit that ever was/i
in the World: and as the Dévil of Mascon feems
before to:have meant it, in bis otitcries, upon, The!
miferies preparing for the poor Hegonots ! thus it ha‘s!
beenall aGed, by afingular Fury of the old Dra-"
gon infpiring of his Emiflaries, sir 7
But in.realicy, Spiritual Woes, are the Prncrpal i
Woes, among ail thofe that the Devil would have
us undone withal. Sis are the worft of Wees't
and the Devil fecks nothiag fo’ much, as to plunger?
us into, Sims... When men do commit a Crime for’
- which.they are to be: Indiaed, they are ufually,!
Movd, by the Inftigation of the Devil. ‘The Devil 7
will put:I Men upon being worfe. Was it not he, |
that faidsin 1. King 22. 22. I will go forth, and be a
Lying: Spirit. 1m the Mouth of ali.the Prophets? Even i
fo, the Devil. becomes an, Uvolean Spirtt, a Drinking
Spirit, a Searing Spirit, a Werldly’ Spirit, a “Palfio- }
mate Spirit, a Reveng ful Spirit, and the tke, in the’
Hearts of thofe that are already too mich of fuch i;
a Spirit ; and thus, they become Improv"d: in Sin- ‘)
fulnefs.. Yea, the Devil will. put, Geod Ac Upon |
doing, Iz... Thus we read, in 1 Chron, 21. 3, Satan |
provoked David to Nunber Tract. And to, the De: |
vil provokes men that are Eminent in Holinefs, une
to fich Things as may become eminenrly eric |
ouss he:provekes them efpecially unto Przde, ‘and §
unto;many unfuitable Emulations. “There are likes}
wifé moft lamentable Impreflions, which ‘the Devil |
makes upon the Souls of men, by way of ‘punith- '

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‘iment upon them for their Sins. “Tis thus, when
Jan Offended. God, puts the So#/s of men over into
the Hands of thar Officer, Who bas the Pawer of
WDeath, that is, the Devil. Iris the woful mifery of
WOnbelievers, in 2'Cor..4. 4. The God of this World
bas blinded their minds, And thus it may be daid
llof thofe Woful Wretehes, whom the Devil. is.a God
unto, The Devil (o Muffles them, that they cannot fee
ithe things of their Peace. And, The Dewi fo Hardens
them, that nothing wil awaken their cares about their
[Souls : How come fo many to be Seared in. their
Sins ? ‘Tis the Devil, that.with a Red Hot Iron
iifecch't:from his Hell, does :cauterife them. Thus. -
tis, till perhaps-at laft-chey come to have a Wound-
ed Confcience in them, vand-the Devil has often.a
Mhareé.in their Torturing and Gonfeunding Anguifh-
tes. ‘The Devil: who Tertify'd-Cain, and Seu), and
WW Fudas, into Defperation, ‘ftill | becomes, a King of
J) Lerrors,to many Sinners; and_dirights them , trom
laying hokd‘on the:Meércy of: God in the Lord Je-
Wyfis Cheift, 2In chéfe-regards, We tog when the

{pDevsl comes down upon us.

‘Propofirson V.

+) Toward the: End of his Tae the Defcent. off the
{)pevil'in' Wrarh upon the World, will produce more
offal Effects, than what-have been in. Former Ages.
i) Che Dying Dragon, will bie more Croelly i& dting
ImoreBloodily than -ever he «did before : ;»The
WPearh-pangs of the Devil will makeham gaibeauere

We Oa!

22 Che Mionders of the
of a Devil than ever he was; and the Furnace of \4
this Nebuchadnezzar will be heated feven times hot- |p
ter, juft before its putting out. y eet |

We are in the firft place, to Apprehend, ‘That. ji
there is'a Time fixed and ftated by God, for the jy
Devil to chjoy a Dominion over our finful and |
therefore wofu! World. The psvil once Exclaime ,
ed, in Mat.8. 29. ‘felis, thow Son of God, art thou \
come bither to Torment us before onr Time? It 4s +f
plain, That until the Second Coming of our Lord, ;
the Dévil muft have a Time of plaguing the World, |
which ‘he was afraid, would have Expired at His 4
First. The Devil is, By the wrath of God, the P rince |
of this Worlds and the Time of his Reign, is to \|
continue until the Tie, when our Lord Himfelf,
fhall, Take to Him(elf, his great Power and Reign. |
Then “tis that the Devil fhall hear the Son of God, if
fweating with loud Thunders againft him, T4y +
Time fhall now te no more! ‘Then Shall the 4
Devil with his Angels, receive their: Doom, which )
will be; Depart into the Everlafting Fire prepared for |

OM.

Weare alfo to Apprehend, that in the mean time,
the Divel can give a throwd guefs, when he drawes
near to the End of bis Time. When he faw Chrifti-;j
anity enthron’d among the Romans, it is here faid,;

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an our Rev, 12-12, He knows he bath but a {hort times

the Divel to know that God won't ‘fuffer him to)

» And how does he Anow it? Why, Reafon will make;
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have the Everlasting Dominion; & that whenGod has}

“once ‘begun to rescue the world ont af his . ae |

na cal ahd eet a ha RP SES Sere Se tee wie al
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Jnvitible World. 23
feel go through with it, until The Captives of the
Wpighty {hall be taken away and the prey of the Ter ible
yall. be delivered... But the Divel will have Scripture
{ifo,to. make him Kyow that-when his Ancichriftian
‘car the feven headed Beast onthe feven-billed City,
rall have {pent his determined years, 4e with hts
icar mutt unavoidably go downinto the Bottomle/s
itt. It is not Improbable, that the Divel often hears
ne Scripture expounded in our congregations ; yea
Phat we never Affemble without a S4tan among us.
Asthere are fome Divines, who do with more un-
Wertainty conjecture, from a certain P ace in the Te
iftle to the Ephefians, Thatthe Angels do fome
imes come into our Churches, to gain fome Advan-

Jjage from our Miniftry. But be fure our Demonjtra
\\'e Interpretations, may give Repeated Notices to the-
Pivel, That bistime is almoft out :andwhat the preach-

Wer 6 fays unto the Young Man, Know thou,
|bat God will bring thee into “fudement ! TIIAT may
W>ur Sermons tell unto that Old Wreteh, Know thou,
i hat the time.of thy “fudement is at band ;

) But we mutt now, likewife,A pprehend ,thatin fuch
i: time the Woes of the world,will be heightened, be-
sjyond what they were .at any Time yet trom the foun-
ation ofthe-world. Hence ti‘s, that the Apoftle

jnas forewarned usyin 2.Tim. 3.1. this know, that
ibe laft days, perillous times {hail come. ‘Truly, wher
the Divel kvows,that he is gotinto his La days, he
will make Perillous Temes for. us; thé ,times will
i Sat more full of Divels,and therefore more full of
Perils, than everthey were before, “ Of this if °°
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foit more 4 bandon the World, than fin’ the former :

24 Hhe Wonders of the

would Kyow, what caufe isto be affigned; It is noel
only, becaufe the Divel growes more Able and more}
Eager to Vex the world; but alfo, and cheefly , Bes
caufe che worldis more worthyto be Vexed by the}
Divel, than ever heretofore. The Sins of men in this|\
Generation,will be more mightySins than thofe ef the}
Former Agessmen will be more Accurate & Exqui:
fite,é Refined inthe Artsof Sinning than they ufe ro
be. And befides,their own fins, the fins of alltheFormer 4
Ages wili alfo lic upon the finners of this generation, '}
Do we ask whiy the mifchiewous powers of darknefi-are)
to prevail more in our days, than they did in thofes
that are paft & gone! Tis becaufe thatmen by finnirig i\
over again the fins of che Former days, havea Fedvas |
Lhip with ak thofe wnfruitfub works of darknefs.As “twas il
jan in Adath. 23.36. Ad thefe things fhail come upon this i
gener itor 340, the men oi the Laf generation, will find |
th mictves involved in the guile of all that went be: it
fos tiem. Of Sinners tis faid, They Heap up Wraths \
auc che inners ofthe Laf generationsdo netonly add. |
uato the Heap of fin that has been pileing up, ever
‘iuce the Fall of man, but they Intereft themfelves 4
i. every fin of that enormous Heap. There has |
vesita Cry offin in all Former Agesgoing upto God, |
< hat the Divel may’ come down! and the finners of 4
ic Lal? generations, do fharpen and louden that ery, \
tal the ting do come te pafs,as Deftrudtively as Ir- |
yemeciadly. From whence it tollows,that the Thrice |]
Holy Gou, with His Holy Angels, will now-after a |

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oes, Tue Roaring Ampictics of the Old World, |
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Nc laft gave Mankind fach a Diftaft in the Heart
iif the Juft God, that he came to fay, # Repents
Wee, chat Ihave made fuch « Creature! And however,
- may be but a witty Fancy, in a Late Learned
WWricer, that the Earth before the Flood was near-
r to the Sus, than it is at this Day 5 and that Gods
(Hurling down the Earth to a further Dittance trom
he Sim, were the caufe of that Flood; yet we
nay fitly enough fay, that men perifhed by a Re-
Ilion feom the God of Heaven. Thus, the En-
dhancd Impietics of this omr World, will Exafperate
he Difpleafiire of God, at fuch a rate, as that he
Avil more Caf? us off, than heretofore ; until-ar laft,
‘We do with a more than ordinary Indignation
ay, Go Devils 3 do-you: take them, and make them ‘be-
ond all former meafures miferable
} If Laftly, We are inquifitive after Inftances of
hofe Aggravated Woes, with which the Devil will
‘towards the Endiof ‘his Time affault us; Let it be
Remembred, That all the Extremicies which were
(foretold by the Trampets and the Véals'in the Apo-
Jicalyptic Schemes of thefe thitgs, to come upon the
world, were the woes tocome- from the wrath orthe
Divel, gm the fhortning of, hisTime, ‘The'horren-
Notis defolations that have come upon mankind, by
the Irruptions of theold Barbarians uponthe Roman
World, and then of the Saracens, and fince, of the
Tarks, were fuch wees,ias faén had never teen before.
Lhe Infandous ‘Blindisefs and Vilenefs which then
-anve upon mankind, and tie Monttrous Croifadées
| Whieh:thereupon ¢artied the Roman world by the
J Millions

26) «6Fhe Conders of the |

Millions together unto the shambles, were al{é fuc |
woes as had never yet had.a Parallel. And yer thefeih
" were tome of the things here intended, when it wast
faid, wo! For the Divelis come down in Great wrathih
having but a fhort Time. i
Bur befides al} thefe things, and befides the Ip il
create of Plagues & Wars, and Storms,and ‘Spternat:
Maladies now in our days, there are efpecially twoil
mott extraordinary Woes, one would fear, will init
thefe days become very ordinary. One Wee that:
may be look‘d for is, A frequent Repetition off
Earthquakes, and this perhaps by the energy of thel
Vivelin the Earth, The Divel will be clap‘t. up,as |
a Priioner in or near the Bowels of the earth when it
once that Confagration. fhall be difpatch’d, which:
will make, The New Earth wherein foal davell Righe it
teoufne/s.5 and. that Conflagration will doubtle& be |
much promoted, by the Subterraneous Fires, which tf
are a caufe of the Earthquakes in our Dayes. Ac: |
cordingly, we read, Great Earthquakes in divers tla-\k
cés, Chumerated among the Tokens of the Time)
approaching, when the Devil thall have no longer i}
Time. I tutpeé&,'Thae we fhall now be vifited §
with more Ufual, and yet more Fatal Earthquakes, ih
than were our Anceftors; inafmuch as the Fires |
that are fhortly to, Burm unto the Loweft Hell} and (
fet on Fire the Foundations of the Mountains; will)
now get more Head-than they ufe to-do ; and
it is not impoflible, that the Devil, who. is -e‘re
long to be punifhed in thofe Kies, may aforehand\}
augment his Defert of it, by baying an hand ill
: | ufing

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Hing fome of thofe Fires, for our Detriment.
jparned Men have made no fcruple to charge the

Mevil-with ic; Deo permittente, Terremotus caufat.

ne Devil furely, was a party in the Earthquake,
hereby the Vengeance of God, in one black
Highe funk Twelve confiderable Cities of Afia,
A) the Reign of Tiberius. But there will be more
ch Cataftrophe's in our Dayes! Italy has lately
deen Shaking, tillits Earthquakes have brought Ru-
1es at once upon more than thirty ‘Towns ; but
will within a lictle while, (hake again, and ‘fhake
4) the Fire of God have made an Entire Etna of
And behold, This very Morning, when Iwas
atending to utter among you fiuch Things as thete;
Wve are calt into an Hearrquake by: Tidings of an
Wearthquake that has lately happened at ‘famaica :
n horrible Earthquake, whereby the ‘Tyrus of the
inglifh America, was at once pull‘d into the Jawes
if the Gaping and Groaning Earth, and many
Tundreds of the Inhabitants buried: alive. “The
_ord fanétifie fo difmal a Difpentation of his Pro-
jyidence,unto all the American Plantations! But be af-
iJured, my Neighbours, the Earthquakes are not o-
iver yet: We have not yet feen the Laff. And
wikhen, Another 7 that may be Look’d for is, The
Devils being now let Loofe in preternatural Operati-
bns more than formerly ; & perhaps in Poffeficns &
(Ob/effions that thall be very. marvellous. You are
Wnot Ignorant, That jutt before our Lords Firfe Co-
iiizning, there were moft .obfervable Outrages com-
gpanitced by
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the Devil upon the Ghildren of Men:
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23 «=«—“Lhe Wonders of the
And I am fufpicious,That there will again bean un }
ufual Range of the Devil among us, a little before,

uch abroads )

World. he cil

manner that ever was, and ina manner anfwering,|
the Tranffiguration'in the Mount, it is thoufand. |
to one, but the Devil will in fiindry parts of the.
World, affay the like: for Himfelf, with a moft A-|
pih Imitation: and Men, at leattin fome Corners |
of the World, and:perhaps .in ied as God may |
have fome fpecial Defigns upon, will to:their Colt, |
be «more Familiarized with the Wojpd of ‘Spirits |
than they had been formerly. i

So that, in fine, if jult: before the End when: the |

‘Lizmes of the Fews were to be finifhed,-a'iman then |

kan.about every where,crying, Wesorbe Nation! Wal

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the City! Wo to the Temple’ Wo! Wo! Wo!
}iuch more may the defcent of the Devil, juft be-
Ive his End, when alfo the Times of the Gentiles will
finithed, caufé us to ery out, Wo! Wo! Wo ¢
saufe of the Black things that Threaten us : ;
But it is now Time to make our Improvement
il what has been faid. And, firft, we shall enter-
Hin ourfelves with a few Corogaries ; deduced from
What has been thus afferted. |

|

| Corogary I.

| What caule have we to blefs God, for our pre-
)rvation from the Devils wrathjin this which may
0 reafonably be call’d the Devils VVorld! While
‘Je-are in, this prefent evil world, We ate continually
i) rounded with {warms of thofe Devils, who make
)is prefent world, become fo evil. What a wonder
> Mercy is it, that'no Devil could ever yet make
| prey of us! We can fet our foot no where
it we hall tread in the midft of moft Hellith
Mattle-Snakes ; and one of thofe Rattle-Snakes once
bee mouth of a Man on whom he had Sie-
Vd, hiffed out fuch a “Truth as this, If God would
|: we loofe upon yor, L fhould find enough in the Bet o
(all, to make you all mine, What Shall 1 fay?
hie PVaderne/s thro’ which we are pafling to the
Wbomifed Land, is allover fild with, Feery flying
|} pents. But blefled be God ; None of them have
‘thette fo faftned wpon us,asto confound us utter.

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Lions, and the Mounts. of Leopards; there are incre}h
dible Droves of Divels in our way.» But have we}
fafely got on our;way thusfar? Odet ns be thank+s
ful:to our Eternabpreferver for it. Ic is faid in}
Pfal. 76. 10. «Surely the wrath of «Man {hall praifes
thee, and the Remainder of wrath {halt-thou reftraim'
But ifurely Ic becomes us to praife God, in that) we}
have yet. fuftain‘d:no, more Damage, by the wratl
of the Devil, and in that he has rettrain‘d that Os}
verwhelming wrath. We are poor Travellers in alt
World, which is as well the Devils Fed, as the Det
vils Gaol; a World, in every Nook whereof, thei
Devilis encamped, with Bands of Robbers, to pels
terall that have their Face looking Zionovard 3; Andy
are! we ‘all this while preferved from ‘the undoing!
Stiares of the -Dewil!. itis, Thou, O-Reeper of I/raelyi
that ibaft hitherto beem our Keeper '. And tl esters
Blefsthe Lord, Q my foul, Blefs his Holy Name,
whorhas redeemed’ thy Life from the Diftroyer !

Jt

Corollary. as

Wemay feethe rife of thofe multiply‘d magnily'dyt
Ancksingularly ftinged Afictions, with which aged
a; éyieg Saints frequently have their. Death Prefary
‘ced, & their Agejembittered. Wher the Saints of
€Jod are going to. leave the World:, it: is ufuallyy
a. more Stormy |, World with ‘them, . thamp
exet «¢-wass, aad they find more Vanity,and .moréd
‘Wexetion in the world.than ever they did before,
ut isenae, That many are the afflittions of the Right es |
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it alittle before they bid adieu to all, thofe many
| bite they often. have greater, harder, Sorer,
Moads thereof laid upon them, than they had yet

ndured, Ic is true, That thro® much Tribulation we
Wf enter.in the Kingdom of God ; buta little before

WirEntrance thereinto,ourTribwtation may have fome

Hharper accents of Sorrow, than ever were yet upon
. And what is the caufeof this! Ic is indeed the
withfulne[s. of our God unto us, that we fhould. find
Nhe Earth mo-e full of Thorns and Brsars.than ever,

it. before-he fetches us from Earth to Heavens

nat.fo. we may go away the more willingly, the
hore eafily and with lef$ Convulfion, at his .calling
Ior.us, O.there are.ugly Ties, by, which we are
aftned unto this world; but God will by Thorns

Wd <Briars tear thofe Ties afunder. But, Is

dor the. Hand of ‘foab here? Sure, There is the wrath

WE.the Devil alfo in it. .; A-lictle before-we ftep in-
o, Heaven; the Devil,thinks with himfelf, Ady t1me
No.abufe that. Saint is now but fhort 5 what Mifchief I
im.to do that. Saint, muft,.be done quickly, if at all ;
SL fbortly be out of my. Reach for ever. . And for this

(aufe he will now fiy; upon_ us with the Fierceft
Nefforts and. Furies of his Wrath. It was -allowed
nto the Serpent, in Gen. 2.15. To Bruife. the. Heet.

Why, at the. Heel, or at. the Clofe, of ,our..Lives,

Nhe, Serpent will be nibbling, more than, ever in

i pur, Lives before: and it is, Becaufe.now be bas but a
ihors:time,. He knows, That we thall very. shortly

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32 «Lhe Wonders of the |
be, Where the Wicked ceafe from Troubling, and wher}
the Weary are at Rest; wherefore that Wicked on}
will now ‘Freuble us, more than ever he did, and we.
fhall have fo much Difreff, as will make us more
weary than ever we were, of things here below.. \\},

Corolary. III \

if

What aReafonableThing then is it, that they whef,
Time is but fhorr, fhould make as great'Ufe of theit}
Time, asever they can ''T pray, leruslearn fome geod, |
even from the Wicked One himfelf. Ithas been ad}
vifed; Be Wife-as Serpents: why, there-is a peece ol;
Wifdom wheréto that old Serpent; the Divel himfelf}\
may be our Monitor. When the Divel perceives his}
Lime is but-fhort, it puts him’ upon Great Wrath,
But how thould icbe witlr #5; when we perceive that)
our Timeis but fhort? why, it fhould put usupon Great

here as athing whichIyenture to fay with all the}
trecdont

SHuvilible World 32
Hyeedom Imaginable. You have now a Time to Get
Hood; even a Time to make fure of Grace and Ghrys
Wd every good thing, by true Repentance ; But, This
(ay, the time ss but fhort. You have now Time to Do
| ood ; evén to ferve out your £eneration,as by the Wik,
| ) for the Praife of God; But, This ] fay the time is
fhert. And what I fay thus to Ail-Peorle, I fay to
}/¢People, with a Peculiar Vehemency: Syrs, It Can-
Wot’ be long, before’ vour Time is out ; there are but
Wiew Sands Left in the glafs of your Time: And it
} of all things the faddeft,for a man to fay Ady Time
Wy) done but my work undone! O then, To work 35 faftas
ypu can sand of Soul-Work, and Church-Work,
ilpatch :as.much as ever you can. Say to all His-
Mances, as the Gracious feremiah Burrows would
l) metimes to Vifitants 3. You't excufe me if I ask you to
MN) (bore oxith me, for nay work is great, and my Time ts
My: foort. Methinks every. Time, we hear a clock,
) fee. a watch, we have an Admonition given us,
Nhat our Tie is upon the swiney-and it will all be
\pne within a little while. I Remember 1 have tead
4) a famous man, who: having a Cloch-Wateb long

jing by him, out of Kilture in his Trunk, it unac.
ijuntably’ Struck Eleven jult before. he Dy‘d.
‘hy, there are many.of you, for whom I'am to
MW) ithat office this day : Tam to tell you, You are
ite to your Elevently Hour ; there is no moré.than 2
Npelfto Part at moft, of your life yet behind. But
awe negled our bufineds, till our fhoré Tine hall
lf reduced. into’ ‘None, then; wo to us, for the great
Mth of God willfend as dows from whence there is
| Redemption. ‘eee gE Corsllary

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34 Lhe Monvers of
0) atari i ¢ a Coronary. TP | i & ne i

< How. wellcome: fhould aDeath in the Lord, bell
urito them; that belong notiuinto the Divel, but unto!
theLord / While. We are fojourning in this worlds}
owe aré in’ what may upon t6o many accounts be cal:
led Lhe Divels Conntry: we ate where the Divel may!
Come dova upom usin Grear Wrath continually)
'~ ‘The dayswhen: God {hall take'us out of this world!
will hej Lhe Dayravben the Lord will deliver us from thy
“Hani of alk our enemies, andfrom: the Hawd of Satan
In ftch-a day) why: should’ not our Song be that oll
the Pfalmift;° Breffedibe my Rock, ‘and let the- God 0,4
ony Salvation be Exalted | While we are ‘here; we
arednthe Valley ofthe fhadow of Death; and what

. 4s-it tar makes itfs Tits becaufe the Wild Beafts o:
Fielli are lurking on every fidé-of us,& every: minut
yeady ito Salleyoforth upon/us. “Bur our Death wii}
fetch: us out of thar Valley; andcearry us where-wi
fhallobes Forever with the Lovdo We are ‘now ut)
derithe daily -Baffetings of the Divel, and he - dox
moleftius' with fach: Buery! Dats; as: caufe us even ty
ery outs] amcmeary of my iLife. Yea, bnt-are wit
as Willing:to Dy, as, Weary of Lafee Our Deach wa}
then foomfer iswhereswe cannot be Reach‘d &
thes) Fit of Wickeduo(s :, and. where the;Perfech ca)
not be Jaottenatey Itiis faid,> in Revo rqe13- “Bleffi
prethe:Dead, wbichDy, inthe Lord; They sReft fra|
their Labours... Butowe may fay; Bleffed arethe Des
imsbe Lord, inafmuch they Refr frome the Devils Oo;
i f TIGRE Dy

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pene i ees aS Man CASS ESET ae ae Cr et
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‘Snbilible Cilorid = 35
ying will be but our Taking Wing ? When, atténd-
{ witha Convoy of Winged Angels, we {hall be
ipnvey‘d into that Heaven,: from whence the De-
Wl having been thrown, he‘ fhall nevet’ more come
Wither after us. What if- God fhould’ now fay-to’
i, as to Mofes,Go up and Dy! As long as we Go wp,
§hen we Dy, Let us receive the- Meflage with 2!
yful Soul; we fhall foon be there, where’ the
wevil can‘t Come Down uponus. “If the, God of
| Life, fhould now fend that Order to us, which-
i; gave to Hezekiah, Set thy Houfe in Order, for thou
pit Dy, and not Live ; We-need not be cait - into
ach deadly Agoniés thereupon, as Hezekiah was-:
mc are but going to that Hovfe, the Golden Doors
Wibereof, cannot be Entred by the Devil that here
Wad ufe to Perfecute us. Methinks, I fee the De-
rted Spirit of a Believer, Triumphantly carried
aro’ the Devils Territories;in fiuch a Stately and
gery, Chariot, as the Spiritualizing Body ot Elias
iwc; methinks, I fee the Devil, with whole Flocks
Harpies, grinning at this Ghild of God, but’un:

yl to taften any of their Griping Talons ‘uporr
am: And then, upon the ucmoft’ Edge of ou¥
{ ‘mo(phere, methinks 1 over-hear the Holy Soul,
Wath a moft Heavenly Gallantry -deriding~ the
eleated Fiend, and faying, 4h! ‘Satan! Return
nl thy Dungeons again ;°I am going where thou canft
iM come for ever! O *tis a Brave Thing fo to
iy ' And ‘efpecially foto Dy, in’ Our Time.For,
Mao” when’ we: call to mind, That the Devils Time
yew bur frort, it may ee make us wil ta
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36 «6 Lhe Mionders of the
Live unto. the End of ic; and to. fay. with the
Pfalmilt, Becaufe. the Lord sill fhortly appear. im. Aish
Giony, to Build up Lion, .O. my God, Take me nob
avay in the, midst of my Dayes.!. Yet. when. we
bear. in. mind, That rhe Devils Wrath, is now mofiit
Great, it would make one willing tosbe, Out of
the Way. Inafinuch as now. is. the Time. for, the}
doing of . thofe . things..in the profpect, wheres
of Balzam jong ago cry‘d out, Who- fhall lie
avhen, {uch Things are done! We, ihould not be um
ardinately loth. to Dy at fuch a. Time, .t.n ait
word, The. Times are fo ‘Bad, that we, may wall}
count it, as. Good a Time to Dy in,\as_ ever we}

law. | } |

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Corollary. V.

» Good News. for the J/rae of God, and: particular}
ly. for His New-Englifh rae: If the . Devils Time’
were above a Zhoufand Years ago, pronounced,Short;'
What may we fuppofe icnow in Or Time ? Surely’
Weare not a Thoufand Years diftant from. thofe, Hap.
py: Lhoufand Years of reft, and peace, and. | which
is better | Holine/s, referved for the people of God}
in the latcer,days; and if we are nota, Thou/ana |
Years.yct thort of that Golden Age, therets caufe to’
think that we are not an-Hundred.. ‘That.the bleffeds
Thoufand Years ave not yet. begun, is abundantly cleal)
frei this, edo not fee the Devii-bound,; No, | tht)
evil was never more let Loofe thanan our Days;
and it is very much that any should imaging osha

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wife: But the fame thing that proves the Thou/and
vars of Profperity for the Church of God, U N-
DER THE WHOLE H EAVEN, tb be
jot yet Begun, do‘s alfo prove, that ic is not’ very
‘ar Off ; cand that is’ the “prodigious Wrath with
vhich che Devil do’s in our Days Prefeécute, yea,
Yefolate the World.’ Tee-us-caft our Eyes. eset
jheré.we will, arid we fhall fee the “Devils Domi-
eering at’ fach arate as may juftly fll us with \a-
onilhment’; it is Queftionable whether ‘Inighity
ver ‘were-fo Rampant, or whethér Calamity were
ver fo Pungent, as in this. Lamettable Time ; We
1ay truly fay, Tis the Hour and the Power of Darkne(s,
ut, tho the #ath be {6 Great, the Time is but Sh ort :
7hen we are per plexed wich the Wrath of the De-
Jil, che Word of our God at the fame time unto us,
M | that, in Rom. 16. 26. The God’ of Peace fhall bruife
Vatan indey your feet SHORTLY. SHORTLY, didft
Hou fay, Dearelt Lord! O! Gladfome word! A-
hen, Even fo, Come, Lord ! Lord Fefus, Come Quick -
i) We @ fhall never Le fd: of 1 Troublefome Dewi, till,
: [ou do come to Chain hive
‘But becaufe the people of ‘God, ‘would willingly
Me. told Whereabouis we are With ‘reference to’ the

is

j \rath and the Time, of the Devil, you jhall give ine
pave, humbly | to fe before you a” ‘few, , Congedt-

ee re ne tt ttt

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The fi wife Cinjectes ‘-

| "The Devil Eldeft Sow fooms to ‘ie towards” ‘the

ES

_End of his laft Half-time 3 and. if it be fo, the Ded
‘Wils Whole-time, cannot.but be very, near it's End}¥
; It is avery candalons thing. that any. Prote/tant,il
fhould be at.a lof where to find, 74e Anti. Chri Wp

and for Half atime; that is for Twelve-hundred ANG
“Sixty Years... And indeed, thole Trelve Hundre.

‘the Devil, and meant when ‘tis here faid, He bas bat
‘a {hort time.-, Now, 1 fhould-have an Eafy, Time ot
it; if | were mever put upon an Harder Task, thant
“to: produce what might. render it extreamly
“probable; That Antichriff entred his laft.,Hal/+ime,!
‘or the Laft Hundred and Four/coreyears of his Reign, |

‘gacle ig the Glorious Holy Mountain between the Seasy)
mutt quickly, Come to bis End and none fal ‘belp bina!

. The Fires, with which, That Beaff, is to be. contur)

38 The Wonders of the

But, we have {ufficient Affurance, thatthe Duration |
of Antichrift, isto be but for a Twme,and for. “Times,)|

and Sixty years, were the very Spott of Time left fori]

| i

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at or foon after. the Celebrated Reformation which}
began at the year 1517-40 the former sae ‘Tne |
deed, ic-is very agreeable to fee-how Antichri ‘then’
Loft Hzif of his Empire ;,and how. that-Half which’
then. became Reformed, have been upon. many aCe!
counts licle mote than Half Reformed. But by this
Computaion, we muft needs “bee. “within a’ very}
few. years of {uch a, Mortification to. befall the See

“of Rome,as that Antichrift who ha‘s lately. béen plan:

ting (what proves no more lafting than ) a ‘Tabere

So then, within a very little while, we hall fee ‘the
Devil ftript of. the. Grand, .yea,.the Laft, Vebicle;'
wherein he will be capable to abufe our World)

soomeaas a(- |

Se ie ae ee Sas = fe ately a. eS a ee eS
aN ag , ne ee aC YLT Wis Seas

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ined, will fo finge the Wings of the Devil too, that
He fhall no more fet the Adfairs of this world on Fire,
Hi ea,they thall both-gointo the jamie Fire, to be for-

mented forvever and. ewer. 68 FO

“The Second Conjectures’

SS

: That which is, perhaps, the greateft Effect of the
MDivels Wrath{eems to be ima manner at an end dand
i:his would:make one hope that the: Diwels Time cati-
Mhot beifar from, itsend.\\ Ieis. in RERSECUTION;
What the «srarb.of .thé «Di vel utes to» -break forth;

i
with its greateft. Fury. | sNow there» want not: Pro:

|

pabilities,: thatthe. La/t/Perfecuticn intended for the
Cthitah ‘of (God,: beforewhe: Advent! of Our: Lord,

|
Haas been: wpon it/; When we feeothe, Second Wo
WP afing away, we havéia fair fignal given’ untoius,

What the LatiSlanghter:of avr. Lords Waitnelses ‘is over:
Nand then'what: QUICKLY: followes °: The Next
tithing is; The Kingdomes of. this World,vare become the

Kingdomesyof Qur Lond} and of His.Chriftvand then

Down. ‘goessthe Kingdonie of the wDivel, fo tharhe
s\cannot..any anote come down upontus... Now,sthe
| Jyrecoverable 8cIrretrievable Humiliations that have.
i Lately :béfallen. the “Eurkifly Power, are» but fo:many
| Declarationsof the Second i Pafing away. «And
@che dealings of God with the» European: parts of the
i.world, at this day, :do:further' :ftrengthen. this our
i Expe@ation. . We do fee, Wt this Hour-agreat Earth:
1) Quake alk. Exrope over: and we: fhal! fee, that. -chis

.

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40 §«©=6. THe Wonders of the
butContribure unto the Advancement of OurLords}
Hitherto-Deprefled Interefts.. Tis alfo to be Res|#
mark‘d that, ADifpofition toRecognize the Empire |i
of God over the Ccn/cience of man,does now prevail }}
more in the world than formerly; & God from on}
High more touches the Hearts of Princes & Rulers |4
with an Averfeneds toPerfecution. Tis Particularly ||
the unfpeakable Happinefs of the Englifh Nation, 1
to be under the-Influences of that Excellent Queen, i}
who could fay Inasmuch as aman cannot make bim{ilf |
Believe what be will pvby fhovld we Perfecute men for not \h
Beliewing as wedo! I wilh 1 could fee all good men of one
mind > but-in.the mean time I pray, let them: however
Love: one another... Words Worthy to’be: written in
Letters of Gold! and by us:the more tobe confider® if
ed, becaufe to one of Ours did that RoyalPerfon |
Exprefs: Her: »Sclf fo Excellently, fo. Obligingly. |
When the late King ‘fames publifhed his\Declaration |
for, Liberty: of Con{cience,'a Worthy: Divine in ‘the
Church of England,then. ftudying. the» ‘Revejation,
faw canfe upon Revelational Grounds;’,\to. Declare |
bitafelt in fa words as thefle, Whatfoever others may \}
sntend or defigu by this Labertysof Con{cience; I cannot ber
heve, that w will ever be recaled in England, as long’ as |
the World foands.. And. youknow how! Miraculouf
ly the Earth-Quake. which then immiediately camé |
upon the Kingdom,ha’s eftablilhed than Laerty’ But |}
that which cxceeds all the tendencies) this way; is, !
The Difpenfation of God at this Diy, towards: the |
bleflod Vaudors. Thofe Renowned Walilenfes which |
“were a dost of Ross unco all the Proteftant Churches,
ee Wale

ilere never” difipated, by all the Perfecutions of
Hany Agés, till wichin thefe few years, the French
Hing and the Duke of Savoy Leagued for their Dit-
Ipation. But juft Three years and half after the feat-
‘ing Of that Hely people, ro the Surprife of all the
World, a Spirit of life from God is come srmto ‘them 5
id having with a’Thoufand Miracles Repoffeffed
emfelves or their antient Seats, their Hot Per/ecu-
is become their great Protettor. - Whereupon
e Refle@tion of the Worthy ‘perfon, that writes
e ftory is, The' Churches of Piemont, being the Root
‘the Proteftant Churches, They have been the jirf? Efa-
ithed ; the Churches of other places, being but the Bran-
es, (hall be Eftablifhed im due time, God will deliver
em |peedily, He bis already delivered the Mather, and
Ne vill not Lng leave ‘the Daughter behind » He will Fi-
(h what be has Glorionfly begun : My,

| , The Third Conjecture.

‘There is a Little’ Roos for Hope; that. the
reat Wrath of the’ Devil, will ‘not prove “the
relent Raine “of ‘our! poor’ New-England
. patticular. I’ believe, there néVer '” was
-péor Plantation, more ‘Purfued by” the
Trath of the Dévil, than’ out poot New-Engtand 5
yd that which ‘takes our Condition very much
hie More deplotable is, Tharthe Wrath ’of the
réat God Wimfelf,'at the fame’ Time al(o'pref-
ks Watd ‘upon us: It was a Rowfing Alarm to
the Devil, when\a great Gompany of Englith
i Proteft-

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“Proteftants and. Puritans; came.to Erec&. Evangy!
dical. Churches, in a corner,,of the World, when)
he had Reign‘d without any, Control. for. man}
Ages; and itis a.vexing Eye-fore, to the. Deviht
that our Lord» Chrift fhould be known, anhf
own'd, and preached in this Howling . Wilderne\
‘Wherefore he. has)ieft no. Stowe.Unturned, that ti
he, might undermine his Plantation, and force uj
out ef our Counthy, .¢ <p aing= displ ae

Firft, The Indian Powvawes, sufed. all their Sol;
ceries .to..molelt the» Firft;..Planters here; by)
God faid unto, them, . Touch,..thers... not! Then

ted: .As Af. this, had, not jsbeend enough +. The!
‘Tawnies among whom we.came, have Wateret!
our, Soyl, with, the, Blood, of).many, Hundred
of cup, Inhabitants,... Defolating). Fires allo chaye
Many, times, laid, the. chief -Treafure of the wholv

Scat cewar RC yin Uwe
55 et mg en 5 Se EAR Dy Maga ye

Men, as oO
how at la

of this poor Néy-Englend
e, Perifh; before
be finiihed ?. I

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AT fay, Firft, That firely, America’s Fate, mufk
at the long run, include New-Englands in it. What}
was the Defign of our God, in bringing over to}
imany Huropeans hither of later years? Of what
U6 or State will America be, when the King dom
of God Shall come? If it muff all be the Devils pro-if
pricty, while the Saved Nations of the other Hx}
amifphere, fhall be, Waiking in the Light of the Now)
Ferufalem, Our New-England has then, ‘tis likely,
done all that it was Ereéted for. But if God have!

44 «he Wonders of the

|
a Purpole to make here a Seat for any of, Thifel)
Glorious ‘Things, svbich are {poken of Thee, O thou Cityi|
of God; then even’ Thou, O New-England, atti
within a very little while of Better Dayes than ¢
ver, yet have Dawn’d upon thee. ceclace ahi ant
I fay, Secondly, That tho’ there be very Threats}
wing Symptoms on America, yet there. are tome}
Hopeful ones. . 1 confels, when one thinks upon,
the crying Barbarities. with which. ‘the moft of,
thole Europeans that haye Peopled this New world,
became the: Mafters of it ; it looks but. Ominoufly.
VVhen one alfo thinks, How much the. way OF
Living in many parts of America, is utterly “Ancon- if
fiftent with the very Effentials of Cérijianity ¢ yea,
how much Injury and, Violence is thercin done to,
Humanity tlk; ic; is enough to Damp, the Hopes :|

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of the molt. Sanguine. Complexion, ., And ‘the

rove of Heaven which has hitherto. been Upor|
A\ttempts of better, Gofpellizing the Plantations, :
‘Confidered, will but increafe the Damp. .. Neverthe |
defs, on the other fide, what fhall be faid of es the’

remiles

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'yomifes, That our Lord Fefus Chrift fhatt have the
Nitcrmost parts of the Earth for bis Poffejfion 2? and
WF all the Prophecies, That Ad tie ends of the Earth
Wd Remember and Vurn-unto the Lord? Or does’ it
bok Agreeably, That fucha Rich Quarter of. the.
‘Vorld, equal in fome, Regards to all the Reft;
Hhould never be out of. the Devs Hands, from the,
i) rft Inhabitation unto the Laft Diffolution of in?
WNo fare ;. why may not the la? be the first > and.
We Sun of Righteou[ne[s come to thine Brightest, ith
4 -limates which ic Rofe Late upon: 52010
I fay, Thirdly That as it fares with Old England,{o
ic will be moft likely to fare with New-England. For
{vhich caufe, by the way, there may be more of the
W)ivine Favour in the. prefent Circumftances of our

[Dependence on England, than we are well aware
ipf. Thisisvery fure, if matters: Go 12 with our
WPfother, her-poor American Daughter here,muft feel
Jc nor could our former Happy Settlement have
Whindred our Sympathy in that Unhappinefs. But if
(natters Go Well in the Three Kingdoms ; as long
ins God fhall Blefs the English Nation, wich Rulers
What fhall Encourage. Piety, Honefy, Tnduftry, in
heir Subjects, and that fhall caft a Benign Afpect
idipon the Interefts of our Glorious Goflpel, Abroad
ins well as at Home ; fo long, New-England will at
iilcaft keep its Head above Water : and fo mucls
HIche more, for our Comfortable Settlement in fuch
i Form as we are now caft into. Unlefs, there
Hhould be any Singular, Deftroying, Topical Plagues,
whereby an offgaded God thould at laft make: us

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46 The Wonders of the

Rife 5 But, Alas;O Lord, what cther Hive haft Thos \h
Provided for us! ° ae a ‘3
TD fay, Fourthly, That the Elder Eng land will certain}
ly &4peedily beVifited with the Anciens Loving Rind=\\
ne{s of God. When one fees, how ftrangely ‘the Curfe i
of our ‘Fofhva,ha‘s fallen wpon the Perfons & Houfes }
of them, that have attempted the Rebuilding of the :h
Old Romith Fericho, whiciy has there teen {0 far de- if
molifhed they cannot bur fay, That thé Reformation We
chere,fhall net only be maintained, but alfo purfued, tt
proceeded, perfected ; and that God will’ fhortly’:|
there have a New “fersfalem-” Or, Let’a Man in }
his Thoughts run over’s ‘but the’ Series of amazing’ |
Providences ‘towards’the Englifh Nation for the :
laft Thirty Years: Let’ him’ Reflea, How many |
Plots tor the ‘Ruitie “of the Nation, ‘have’ been
ftrangely difcovered ?' yea; How ‘very unaccoun- 4
tably, » thofe very Perfons, yea, I may’ alfo fay,

and thofe very: Adzethods which were intended for
the Tools of ‘that Ruine, have become the Inftru- i
ments, or Occafions of Deliverances 2 YA° man cane ih
fot but fay upon thefe Refle@ions, as the Wife of }
Mansah once. prudently ‘expreffed “her ff, If the
Lord were pleafed to have Deftroyed us, He svould not
bave how'd us, all. thefe things: ° Indeed y'-It is not |
unlikely, char the Enemies of the Englith Nation;
may yet provoke fuch-a Shake unto it, as may per- |
haps exceed ‘any that has hitherto been undergone ?
the: Lord preventths Machinations of his Adver-
faries ! But, thatSdake will uiher in the moft Glorious |
Aves, that ever avole upon? the Englijh “Horizon.

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5 for the French Cloud which hangs over England,
o it be like to Rain Showers of Blood upon a
Hation, where the Blood of the Bleffed Jefus, has
.eh'too much treated, asan Unbsly Thing 5’ yet I
Nelieve, God will fhortly icatter it - and my Belief
‘) grounded upon a Bottom, that will bear ic. If
Shat overgrown French Levtathan, fhould accorm-
Nifh amy thing like a Conquelt of England, what
ould there be to hinder him from the Univerfal
Iimpite: of the Wef? But the 7 ifions of the
Weitern World, in the Views both of Daniel and
If Fobn, do affure us, that whatever Monarch, fhall

shile the Papacy continues, go to {mallow up the
Men Kings which received Their Power upon the
all of the Weftern Empire, he muft mifcarry in
Nhe Attempt. The French Phaetons Epitaph {eems

Jvritten'in that, Sure Word of Prophecy '

o 7

1H ere a } : ;
1) °( Since the making of this Conjefture, there are

Wrrivd°unto us, the News of a Victory obtain’d
Hy 5y the! Exglifh over the French, which further con-
)\irms out Conjecture ; and caufes us to fing, Phe-
yraohs Chariots, and his Host, has the Lord caft down
into the Sea 5 Vay Right-hand has dafhed in pitces the
WEnemy*

Now; fi the Salvation of England, the Planta-
tions cannot but Rejeyce, and New-England allo
J yevill be’ Glad. |

‘) But fo much for our Corollaries, } haften ‘to
[)cheamain® Thing defigned for your Entertaiment,

And’ that 45, if

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40 LHe Cionders of the

An Hortatory and N eceflary
vs ADDRESS. seis
To a Country now Extraordinarily Alarum‘d_ |
by the #rash of the Devil. Tis this, h

Et us now make a Good and a Right ufe, of}
the Prodigious Defcent, which the Devil, in}
Great Wrath, is at this day making upon our Land,|
Upon the Death of a Great Man once, . an. Obi
rator.calld the Town together; crying out, Com)
currite Cives, Dilapfa [unt uefira, Mania! that 15,:)
Come together, Neighbours, your Lowi-Walls, are fale
fen down! But fuch is the Defcent of the Dz}
vil at this day upon ourfelyes, that 1 may truly:
fell you, The Walls of the whole World are. broken}
down! The ufual Walls of Defence about, mankind i
have fuch a Gap made in them, that. the.very Dee
vils. are broke in upon us, to Seduce the Sowls,Tor- 4
ment the Bodies, ully the Credits, and confume the |
Effates of our Neighbours, with imprefitons, both as (/
Real and as Furious, as if the Invifibe World. were be- ib
coming Incarnate, on purpofe for the vexing of | us
And what ufé ought now to be made of fo. Tre- I
mendous a difpenfation 7. Weare engaged. in a |
Fafé this day; but thall we try to, fetch, deat out
of the Eater, and make the Lion to aiford fome Hony |
for our Sorfs, | | Onin | i
That theDevil, is Come diay unto, ws with great ||
Wrath, we find,we feel,we now deplore: .Iny many
wayes,for many years, hat the Devil Been aflaying
“iy ma

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“Bavilivle Worip

» Extirpate the Kingdom of our Lord Jefhs here.
lew-England may complain of the Devil.as in
© e are IST
{ {al. I29. 1,2. Many a time have Loey Ajitlea Me,
‘om my Youth, may, New-England now [ay 5 many
time bave they Afflitted me from my Youths yet
ey have not prevailed against me. But now there
MW a more than Ordinary Affliction, with which the

evil 18 Galling of us : and fich an one as is indeed

@oparallellable. The Things Confefled by Witches

nd the Things Endured by Orhers, laid together,
Mmount unto this account of our Affi@ion. The
evil, Exhibiting himielf. ordinarily as a fmall
iV/ack man, has decoy‘d a fearful Knot of Proud,
rowatd, Ignorant, Envious, and Malicious Crea-
Hires, to Litt themtelves in his Horrid Service, by
Mntring:their Names in a Book by him Tendred
Mnto them. Thele Witches, whereof above a Score
ave now Confeffed, and fhown their Deeds, and fome
We now Tormented by the Devils, for Coxfelfing,
eve met in Hellilh Randezwouzes, wherein the
jponfeffors do fay, they have had their Diabolicat
Wpcramenb, imitating the Bptifiz and the Supper
wf our Lord. In thefe Heilifh Meetings, thefe
Monftes have affociated themfelvées to do no. lef&
i) Thies than, Jo Deftroy the Kingdom of our Lord

pyerereunto, Firft, chey each of them have their
ipetres, or Devils, Commiffiond by them, and Re-
Wefenting of them, to -be the Engines of their
alice.’ By thefe wicked Spectres, they Siezé poor
oply about the Country, with Vatious‘and bloody
1a Be EST orimirits §

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‘efus Ch rift, in thefe parts of the World ; and in or

$0. Se Caoneers or tye

Torments.; and of thofe Evidently. Preternatural |
Torments there are fome have Dy‘d. They have be- |f
witched fome, even io far as to make them Sel/- i
Deféroyers + and others are in many Towns here
and there Laneuilbing under their Evil Hands. |
The People thus Aflicted, are mifcrably Scratched: |

7,
7,

and-Bitten, fo that the Marks are moft Vifbie to |h
all the World, but the caufes utterly Invefble s and |]
the fame Invifible Pyuries, do molt. Vilibly ftick Pins |]
into the Bodies of yne AfiiGed, and. Scald them, & il
hideoufly Diftory, and Disjoine all their members, |
befides a thoufand other forts of Plagues beyond. |
thefe of any Narral Dileafes which they give |
unto them. . Yea, they\fometimes drag the poor,|
People out of their Chambers, and Carry then
over Trees and Hulls, for diverie Miles together..,
A large part of the Pertons tortured by ‘thefe Di-
abolical Spef#res, are horribly Tempted by
‘them, fometimes with fair Promifes, andj}
fometimes with hard Threaceniogs; but. alwayes)
with felt Miferies, to fign the Devils Laws, in ayy
Spectral Book laid before them ; whica two org!
three of thefe poor Sufferers, being by thir Tire: i

; ; xs, it
fome Sufferings overcome-to do, they have imme- |
diately been releafed from all their Milerss, 8;

they appear'd in Spectre then to Torture thofe thar”
were. before their Fellow-Sufftvers: The Warhes |
which by their Covenant with the Devil, are le i
come Owners of Speéfres, are oftentimes by. a

: : ei: + al
own Specires Required and Compelled to give.
their Confent, for the Moleftation.of fome, which,

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they had no mind otherwile to fall upon ; andt

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Cruel Depredations are then made upon the Vici-
finage. In the Profecution of thefe Wétcherafts, a-
Wmong a thoufand other unaccountable Things, the
"Spectres have an odd Faculty of Cloathing the
Wenolt Subftantial and Corporeal Inftruments of
Vorture, with Isvifibility, while the Wounds there-
py given have been the moft.palpable ‘Things in
rhe World ; fo that the Sufferers affauleed with
laftruments of Iron wholly un/een to the Standers-
Wy, tho‘ to their coft feen by themfelves, have
ipon {natching, wrefted the Inftruments out of
the Specires Hands, and every one has then imme-
diately not only beheld, but bandied, an Iron Inftru-
ment taken by a Devil from a Neighbour.’ Thefe
ipvicked Spectres have proceeded fo far, as to Steal
weveral Quantities of Mony from divers people,
part of Which Money has before fufficient Speéta-
‘ors been dropt out of the Air into the Hands of
ihe Sufferers, while the Speéfres have been urging
them to Subtcribe their Covenant with Death. In
Nfuch extravagant wayes, have thefe Wretches pro-
Hpounded, the Dragooning of as many as they can,
‘}ato their own Combination, and the Deftroying
‘pf others, wich Lingring, Spreading, Deadly Difea-
les; til our Country should at Jaft become: too
‘lot for us: Among the Ghaftly Inftances’ of the
‘pwcce/s which thofé Bloody Witches have had, we
)paveleeneven tome of their own Children, fo De-
)Hicated unto the Devil, that in their Infancy, it is
‘Wound, the Imps have Sucked them, and Rendred
|Fiena Vengmous to'a Prodigy. We haye alfo teen

R2 the

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"$2. Tie Gonbers of ¢

Devils Fir5¢ Batteries, upon the. Town, where. the?

fir? Church of our Lord in this Colony was Ga-

thered, producing thofe Ditraions, which: have ¥}
aimoit Kuined the ‘own. We have'feen likewife®

the Plague reaching afterwards into other Towns
far and near, where the Houtes of Good Men have
the Devils filling of them with terrible Vexations !

This is the Defcent which, as it feems, the Devil

has now made upon us. But that which makes

this Defcent the more. formidable is;; The « Multi-

tude and Quality of Perfons Accuféed.of an Intereft

in this Witchcraft, by the Efficacy of the: Spectres +)

which take their Name ‘aud Shape upon them ;
caufing very many Good and Wife, men to fear,
That many Ixnocent, yea, and fome Vertuius Per-
fons, are by the Devils in this matter Impofed up-
on ; That the Devils have obtain‘d the power, to

take on them the Likeme/s! of Harmlets People,

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and in:that Lrkene/s to. Atlic& other People, and
be fo abufed by Praftigious Demons, that upon their
Look: or Touch, the Afticted thall be oddly Affected.
Arguments from the Providence of God, on the one
fide, and from our Charity towards Ad4an, on the
other fide, have made This now to become a moft
Agitated Controverly among us. There is an Ago.

ay produced in the minds of men, Left the Devit’

Should {ham us with Devices, of perhaps a finer
Thred, than was ever yet practifed upon the

World... The whole Bufinefs is become-hereupon\!
fo Snarled, ‘and the Determination of the Queltion:
one way of anorher, 10 Di/mal, that our Honan:
og sq Diet

Favitible Morin —s_ 3

ble Judges, have a Room for Fehofhaphats Exclama-
tion, We know nor what to’ do! They have ufed,
as Judges have heretofore done, the Spectral Eviden-
¢es,to introduce their further Enquiries into the
Lives of the Perions Accufed; and they have
thereupon, by the wonderful Providence of God,
‘been fo ftrengthened with Orber Evidences, that
fome of the Witch Gang have been fiirly Execut-
ed. But what fhall be done, as to’ thofe againft
W whom the Evidence is chiefly founded in the Dark
B Weert ¢ Here they do folemnly demand our Ad-
i dreiles to the, Father of Lights, on their Behalt.
But in the mean time, the Devil improves the Dark
W) 2e/s of this Affair, to puih us into a Blind Mans
| Buffer, and we are even ready to be Sinfully, yea,
Hotly, and Madly, Mauling one another, in the
Dark.

| The Confequence of thefe things, every Conf
derate man trembles at ; and the more, becaufe the
frequent Cheats of Paffion, and Rumour, do pre-
cipitate fo many, that I wilh I could fay, The moft
Wjwere Conjiderate. !

) Bue that-which carries on the FormidablenefS of
jjour Trialls, unto chat which may be called, wrath
into the mtermoftis this: Ic is not without the wrath
ijof the Almighty God Himfelf, that the Devil is per-
‘mitted thus tocome down’ upon usin wrath. It
was faid, in T/a. 9.19. Thro the wrath of the Lord of
\|Hofis, the Land is Darkned. Our Land is Darkued in.
iideed ; fince the Powers of Darkne/s are turned ih up-
ON us,s tis a Dark Time, yea, a Black Night indeed

nes 23 ee Lee

<4 HLbe Wonders of the

now the Zy-Dogs of the Pitt, are abroad among
us: but, leis thro rhe wrath of the. Lard of Hofts ! Inas-
+ much as the Fire-brands.of Hell it felf are ufed for
) the Scorching of us, with caufe _Enough may we

ina Cry out, What means ite Heat of this Anger ? Blefled
‘Lord! Are all the other Inftram ents of thy Ven-

| geance,too Good for “i chaftifement of fuch tranf-
greflors aswe are? Muft the very Devils be fent
out of Their own place, ta be our. Troublers? Mutt
we be lafh’d with Scorpions, fetch‘d from the Place
of Torment ?. Mult this Wilderne/s be made a Recep-.,
tacle for the Dragons of f the Wilde rnefs ? Ata Lapland. |
fhould nourith in it vat numbers, the Succeflors. of
che old Biarmi, who can with looks or words be-
itch other people, >, or Sell Winds to Marriners,
i haye their Familiar Spirits which they bequeath
‘ Children when they dy, and by their En-
hanted 1 Kec: -Drums can learn things done a ‘Thou-
Leagues off; Ha Swedeland should afford a
lag pe, where fome {cores of Hag ggs,may not only
their Meetings with Fasmsliar Spirits, but al-

>b y theic Enchantments drag many {cores of poor
iidren out of theirBed-Chambers,to be {poiled at
thole meetimgs 5 This, were not altogether a matter
of io much-wonder ! But that New-England dhould
this way be haraffed ! They are not Chaldeans, that |
bitter, and. Hafty Nation, but they are, Bitter and. |
Butning Devils ; They are not Swearthy Indians, bute:
chey are Sooty Devils; shat are let loofe upon us. |

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Ah, Poor New-England ! Muft the plague of Old |
Egypt come upon thee 2-Whercof we read in Pfal.

Buvitible World 5
78. 49.. He cast upon them, the fiercene/s of bis Anger,
Wrath, and Indignation, ana Trouble, by fending Eval
(Angels among them. What ? O what mult next be
Nooked for. Mudt that which is there next. menti-
roned, be next encountered ? He {pared not. thea foul
from death, but gave their life over to the Peftilence.
‘For my part, when I confider what Adelanét bon faies,
4n one of his Epittles, That thefe Diabolical Spectacles
are ofien Prodigies ; and when t contider, how often
‘people have been by Speé/res called upon, juft be-
tore their Deaths; Lam verily afraid, Leit fome
walling Mortality, be among the things, which this
Plague isthe Forerunner of. I pray God, prevent
it !

But now, What_fhak we do?

1. Let the Devils coming down in great wrath upon
“us, caufe us to come down in great grief before the
Lord. We may truly and fadly fay, We are brought
-verylow ! Low,indeed when the Serpents .of the

dult, are crawling and coyling about us, and. Intul-
ting over us.” May we not. fay, We are in the very
belly of Hell. when Hell it felf is feeding upon us?
But how Low is that.! O let us then moft Penitent-
ly lay ourfelves very Low, before the God of Hea-
' ven, who has thus Abaf

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fedus. When a Truculent
Nero, a Devil of a. man, was turned in upon the
| World, it was faidin, 1. Pet.s. 6, Humble yourfelves
_ under the mighty hand of God. How much more
now ought we to Humble ourfelves under that Mighty
Hand of that God who indeed has the Devil in a
Chain, but has horribly lengthened out the Chaim! 1)

A ct

56 Khe Wionders ofthe

When the Old People of God,heard any Bla/phemiesit
tearing of his Ever: Bleffed Name to pieces, they
were to Rena their Cloaths at what ee, heard. I ambh
fure.that we have caufe to Rena our Elearts this Day,,|f
wien we Re what an rg Trea cafon has been comi=if
: the molt High God, ‘by the Witch-ip
Wars DSurho a % ve may fay; 5 and | i

thal we not be Hidbleds vhen wefay it? We have

: (SPE ETAT SRO ie ee ee C$ {ft ih
fees an.horvible thins done 74 ow Land Otis a molt x
Y Fm |

qamb Ting thi o think, that ever thére fhould bei4
fi eo aiialeetss ee AI*IMNeyY r30¢ ac As > {#7 a f
uch 1a aADOmMeiagrion adissO1llS Uo, db 1Or a SoFoe oO

=
Y > 4 = Rott % y eee a

ditimane isace, ‘to renounce their Maker and to

ee aay Satie for the “Troubling “of M
unite X te i t ee 3 ‘ by for Lic Froubling oO I an-

4 c + 4 i=) : 45 fe. {5° f
kind, and for people to be, (as is by fome confefs'd yi |

A

F ie . Sa | y -
Baptized by a Fiend bling this form upon them,
Zhou a mine, an gi I have a full power over thee ! af:
te: TW at “cle > CC 3m muh vee aul ing Lil ¢ 21 Hei ifh Evréad and i

Wine, by that Fiend Admniftred unto them. ° Te
was fiid in Deut. 18.10, 11, 12. There fhal not be ‘t
feund among you an Inchanter, or a Witch, or a Chara |
if

, 7 a Confulter with Far wiley Spiri its, cr a Wizzard h
ra T Tecromancer : For alt that do thefe things are an
Abomination 2 she Lord, and becaufe of thefe Abomina
tions. WAS Lord thy God doth drive them out before thee.
Phat NeweEn land now fhould have thefe “Aoming-

tions in it, ‘yea, nat tome of no mean Profe e[fice,
jnould be found guley of them: Alas) what Hy

wmiliations are we all b creby oblig“d unto? © ‘Tisa
Defiled Land, wherein we Live : Let us be Humbled

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fi
for thefe p Defiling “bia PODDE Leit.-we' be driven

aut of our Land, It's a yery Huwhbling Thing to
| think,

sGabtiible World 57

rink, what-Reproaches willbe. caft, upon, ‘us, for
tis Matter, among, TeDaaghters of the-Pbilif? ines.
Ihdeed, caough might. cafily be faid for the Vindi-
tion of #415 Country. from che Simgularity of this
hareen Ripping up, what has been diicovered
Mh others. Great Britam alone, and this alio.in eur
yes of Greate? Light, has had that in. it, which
say divert the Calumnies of an Lil-nacured World,
iom Centiing here... They are.the words of the

isvout.Rilhop Hall, Satans Prevalency, i this Age,
Ml 05k. clear in the marveilius: Number. of Witches a-
umding 1m all places. Now ‘Hundreds are- difcovered
: one Shires and, if Fame Deceiveus not, 1a Village
° Fourteen Houfes in the. Novth,.are found...{o many
“this Damned Brood. Yea, and thofe of botir Sexes,
Ibo have Profefled much Knowledge, Heline/s, and De-
otion, are drawn into this Damnable Prattice.-> Piup-
ofe the Doctor in the firlt of thef2 Paflages, may
iefer to what happened in-the Year 1645. When
> many Vaflals of the. Devil awere Detected, that
nere were Léity Try‘d at. one.time,, whereas, a-
out Fourteen were Haag‘d,:and:an Hundred more
Yetained in the Prifons of Safle and. Ejfex....A-
nong other things which many of thefe Acknow-
-dged, one.was, That they were to undergo cer-
tin Punifbments, if they didnot fuch and fuch
lurts, as. were appointed them, And, among the
Mieft that ‘were then Executed, there was an Old
Parfon, called, Lowis, who.Confefled, that he had
ff} Couple of Imps, whereof,One was alwayes put-
Jing him upon the doing of,.Milchief ; Once ‘par
| htt ticularly,

$8 Lhe Monders of the

ticularly, that Imp calling for his Conftnt {4
do, went immediately and Sunk “Ship, thei
under Sail. I pray, Let not New-England

come of an Unfavoury and a Sulphurous Riff
fentment in the Opinion of the World Abroa)
for the Doletul Things which are now ~ falldl
Out among us, while there are fuch’ Hyfories wl
other places abroad in the World. Neverthéle#}
Tam fire that we, the People of New-Englam
have caufé enough to Humble our felves tndet
our molt Humbling Circumftances. We mutt nt
more, be, Haughty, becaufe of the Lords Hit
iount ain among us; No, it becomes-us ‘rather ti
be, Humble, becaufe we have been fuck: an- Habitat
tion of Unholy Devils }