Chapter 5

II. Since the Divel i$) cone down ih freat wratut

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upon us, let not us in our great wrath again{t ot
another provide a Lodging for him. It was a mobi
wholefome caution, in Eph. 4.26. 27. Let not thi
Sun go down upon your wraih : Neither give place t|
the Divel, The Divel'iscome down to. fee wha
Quarter he thall find among us: and, if his coming

own,-do now fillus with swrath again{t one ‘ant
other, and if between the caufe of the Sufferers ot!
one hand, and the caufe of the Sufpected on other,
we carry things to uch extreames of Pa/fion as are
now gaining upon us, the Devil will Blef himfelf:|
to find fuch a convenient Lodging as we {hall there |
in afford unto him. And it may be that the wrath
which we have had/againit ong another has had

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fee then a little Influence upon the coming down
Hhe Divel in that wrath which now amazes us.
Ae not many of us been Decé/s one unto another
Banderings,for Backbitings,for Animofities ? For
, among other caules, pernaps, God ha’s permit:
HM che Devils to be Worrying, as they now are,
Hong us. But ic is high time to leave off all Devil-
when the Devil him€lt is falling upon us : and
no time for usto be Cenfuring and Reviling
sancther, with a Devilifh Wrath, when the
uth of the Devil is annoying of us. “The way for
Mico out-wit the Devil, in the Wiles with which he
Ay Vexes us, would be for us, to join as one man
Mour cries to God, for the Direéting , and Tflu-

- of this Thorny Bufinefs ; but if we do not Lift
ypur Hands to Heaven, Without Wrath, we cannot
A do it without Doubt, of fpeeding in it. Lam
med when I'read French Authors giving ‘this

Maracer of Englifhmen [ Iis fe baiffent Les uns les

hes, et font en Divifion Continuclie, | They hate one

| another, and are always Quarrellung one with arc
ir. And I fhall be much more afhamed, if it be-
line the Charaéter of New-Ewglanders ; which is
iileced, what the Devil would ‘have. Satan would
Ghke us. Bruife one another, by breaking of the
Ice among us; but O let us difappoint him. We
§hd of a thing that fometimes happens to theDevil,
then he is foaming with his Wrath, in Mat. 12,
W\. The unclean Spirit fecks reft, and finds none. But
Is give Ref unto the Devil, by Wrath one againit
Shother. lf we would lay afide all fiercenels, and
keenefs,

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- keene, in the difputes which the Devil has rail§
among us ; andif we would ufeto- one anot
hone but the, Soft Anfivers, which Turn away Wrat
{ fhould hope that we might light:upon fach Co
els, as would quickly Extricate us out of our La
rinths. But the Old Incendiary of the world, is COs
irom Flell,withSparks of Eell-FireFlaihing on evel
fide of him ; and we make our{elves Tynder to til
Sparks. When the Emperour Henry TLL kept t']
Feaft of Pentecof, at the City Jentz, there arok
Diflenfion among fome of the People there, whi}
came from words to lows, and at: aft ic paiied (
to theShedding ofblood.Atter the Turnult was ovis
when they came to ‘that claufe in their Devotioi}
Lhou baft made this day Glorious; the. Devil to th)
unexpreffible Terrour. of that ‘vaft Aflemblf
made the Temple Ring with that Outcry But}
have .made this Day Quarrelfomet’ We are tru}
come into a day, which by being well manage}
might be very Glorious, for the exterminating «|
thole, Accurfed Tiings, which havé. hitherto bee}
the Clogs of our Profperity ; but iff we mak
this day Quarrelfome, thro‘ any Raging Confidence }
Alas, O Lord, my Elefh Trembles for fear of thee, an
I am afraid of thy Judgments. Erafmus, among 4
ther Hiltorians, ‘tells us, that at -a Town in Gei
many, a Witch or Devil, appear'd onthe Top ef
a Chimney, Threatning to {et thie Town on Fore
and at length, Scattering a Pot of Afhes abroad thy}
Town was prefendy andHornily Burn’t unto th.
Ground. Methinks, I fee che Spectresy: irom -th’|

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Ips of the Chimneys to the North ward, threat-
ig to Scatter Fire, about the Countrey; but let
HQuench that Fire by the moft amicable Cor-
fpondencies : Left, as the Speéfres, have, they
WW, already moft Literally Burn’t fome of our
Wrellings, there do come forth a further re
im the Brambles of Hell, which may more ter-
My Devour us. Let us not be like a Troubled
Hye, altho we are fo much haunted by the De-
H. Let our Long Suffering be a Well-placed piece
HM 4rmour, about us, againit the Fiery Darts of the
M-ked ones. Hiftory informs us, ‘That fo long
5, asthe year, 858. a certain Peftilent and Ma:
fant fort of a Demon, molefted Caumont in Ger-
Wy with all forts of methods to ftir upStrife among
Citizens.» He uttered Prophecies, he detected
Mlanies, he branded people with all kind of Infa-
Mss. He incenfed the Neighbourhood againft one
thn particularly, as the caufe of all the mifchtefs:
io. yet proved himfelf innocent. He threw ftones
the Inhabitants, and at length burn‘t their Ha-
Hations, till the Commiffiion of the Demon could
Mino further. I fay, Let us be well aware leit
h Demons do, Come hither alfo !

WU. Inafmuch as the Devil is come down in
Hat Wrath, we had need Labour, with all the
re and Speed we can to Divert the Great
‘ath of Heaven from coming at the fame
Hie upon us. The God of Heaven has with

ig and loud Admonitions, been galling us to,

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A. Reformation of our Provoking Evils, as the ont}
way to avoid that Wrath of His, which dof!
not only Ybreaten, bute Confume us. "Tis becaut'
we have been Deaf to thofe Calls, that we att
now by. a provoked God, laid open to thi
Wrath. of the Devil himfelf Ie is id in Proyt
16. 7. When a mans ways pleafe the Lord, He i |
keth even his Enemies to be ot peace with bint
The Devil is our Grand. Ewemy: and thot wi
would not: be ae peace. wish him, yet we woul!
be at peace from him; that is, we would hav‘t
him, unable to Ditquier our Pezce, But inafmuel}
as the Wrath which: we Endure from this. Ea’t
my, Will allow. us no Peace, we may be {ure}
Our. Ways ‘have, not pleafed the Lord, Ut is becauf'l
we have Broken. tbe Hedge of Gods Precepts, tha't
the Hedge of Gods Provodence is not fo Entin'}
as.it ufes.to be about us > but Serpents are Bitin)
of uss. © let, us then fet. our felves to maki}
our, Peace. wath our God, whom we have Dif}
pleafed. by. our Iniquities.: and. let. us not imagin!
that we. can Encounter: the Wrarh-of the Dovilf
while there is che; Wrath of God Almighty. t
fer that Mattiff pon us. REFORMATION!
REFORMATION ! has been the Repeated Cry,0}
all-the Judgmenss, that have hitherto been upon us:
becaufe we have. ben asDeaf Adders thereunto, thet
Adders of the Infernal Pit are now hiffing about us’
Atlength, as ic was of-old faid in Luc 16. 30. Tf om'|
avent unto them; from the Dead they will Repent; Ever}
fo, Therc-are fome come unto us from the Damned’

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that many Damned Spirits are come in among
ito make us Repent of our Mifdemeanours. ‘The
ans which the Lord had formerly Employ‘d for
Awakening, were fuch, that he might well
ra faid, What could I have done more ? and yet
st all, He has done more, in fome regards, than
is ever done for the Awakening of any People
the World. The Things now done to Awaken
- Enquiries after our Proveking. Evils, and our
Ideavours to Reform thofe Evils ; are molt EX-
BRAORDINARY Things; For which caufe I
Wald freely fpeak it, If we now do not fome EX.
TRAORDINARY Things in Returning to God,we
# the moft Incurabie, and I with it be not quickly
Hh the moftAsiferable People under the Sun.Believe
ip, ‘tis a Time for all people. to do fomething
TKTRAORDINARY In Searching and in Trying
Wher Ways, and in Turning to the Lord. Itis at.an
IKTRAORDINARY Rate of Circum|pettion and
Ni itual Mindedne/s, that we fhould all now main-
Jaa Walk with God. At fuch a Time as This,
Icht Magistrates to Do fomething EXTRAOR-
| iNARY in promoting of what is Laudable, and
W Reftraining and Chaftifing of Evil Dyers. At
teh a Time as This, ought MinifFers to Do fome-
ing EXTRAORDINARY in pulling the Souls
4) men. out. of the Snares of the Devil, not only
i} publick Preaching, but by. perfonal Vifits and
} ounfels, from Houfe to Houfe. Atituch a Lime as
his, ought Churches to Do. fomething EXTRA-
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ORDINARY, in Renewing of ‘their Covenants!

and in Remembring, and Reviving ‘the Obligation

of what they have’ Renewed. ~ Sémé Adimirabli!

Defigns about the Reformation of Manners,’ haval
ately been'on foot in the English “Nation, in pur

tuance’ of the moft Extelfent Admonitions, ‘which!

have’ been given for it, by the Lettérs of E hei

Majelties.. Befides the vigorous Agreements of the
Juftices here and there in the Kingdom 3; affifted

by Godly Gentlemen and Intormers, to Execut¢t
the Laws upon Profane Offenders: there has beer't
itarted, A’ PROPOSAL, for the wellaffeGed peat
ple in every Parifh; to enter into orderly Societies |
whereof every Membér hall bind -himielf, nov}
only to Avoid Profanenefsin him#élf but alfo act
cording unto their Place, to do ‘their utmo%- int
firlt Reproving, and, if it mutt be fo, ‘then Expofingi
and to Punifhing, as the ‘Law dire&s, for, others!
that fhall be putlty: It thas been’ obferved; Thar
theEnelifh Nation ‘has’ had fome -of its sreatelt
Succefizs, “upon, forme fpécial, and fisnal Actionst
this way ;_and-a Dilconrasement biven unto Legal!
Proceedings of this Kinds rautt deeds be very ex}
erciting te the, fe rhat objerve thefe Tbings. Butt!
O why thould nor New England be ‘the ‘molt for!
ward part of the Englith Nation in fuch'Reformast
tions Methinks, I hear the Lord’ from Heaven!
faying overcus, O ar ray People had hearkewed ‘unto
me; Then] fhoutd foon'bave fubdued the Devils; as
well-as their other Enewnies'’ There have® been’ fome'
fome igeble ‘Effays towaids Reformation'ok Yate in|
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ur Churches; but, I pray, what comes of them?
Yo we ftay till the Storm of his Wrath be over ?
HWay, let us be Doing what we can as faft as we
an, to divert the Srorm. ‘The Devils, having broke
2 upon our World, there is great Asking, Who is
that bave brought them in? and many do by
petral Exhibitions come to be ery“d out upon.
hope. in Gods Time, it will be found, that
mong thofe that are thus Cry‘d out upon,
rere are perfons yet Clear from the Great Tran[gre{+
on ; but indeed, all the Unrefcrmed among us,
pay jultly be Cry‘d out upon, as having too much
fan Hand in letting of the Devils in to our
Morders 5 ‘tis our Worldlinef, our Formality, our
Kenfuality, and our Iniquity, that has help‘d this

4 etting of the Devils in. O Let us then at laft,
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Wonfider our Wayes. "Tis a ftrange paflage recorded
ay Mr. Clark, in the Life of his Father, That the
| eople of his Parilh refufing to be Reclaimed from
Mpeir Sabbath Breaking, by all the zealous Teftic
Hponies which that Good man bore againft its at
spit, on a Night after the people had Retired
Wome froma Revelling Profanation of the Lords
vay, there was heard a Great Noife, with Rat-

ling of Chains, up and down the Town, and an
Morrid Scent of Brimftone fill'd the Neighbour-
ood. Upon which the Guilty Confciences of the
)Wretches, told them, the Devil was come to fetch
fem away : and it fo terrify‘d them, that an
#}inent Reformatios follow‘d the Sermons which
@piat man of God Be thereupon, Behold,

sinners,

66 She Uionders of the
Sinners, Behold, and Wonder, left you Perifh 5 the}
very Devils are Wal iking ° about out Streets, with}¥ J
Lengthened Chains making a ‘dreadtnl Notfe in out
Ears, and Br imffone, ever without. a Metaphor, ‘is}if
making ‘af’ Hell’ and Horrid’ Sterichin outig
Noftrils. “Pray, Leave off all thofé things where
of your Guilty Confes ences may now accule you, lefty
thefe Devils do yet more direfully fall upon yous
Reformation 15 at this ‘Time, our only PreferVatioms i
‘W. When the Devilis come ‘down! inf Greabit
Wrath, Let’ ev dak Great Vice which may’ have ail
more Particular’Tendency to maxe us’ a Prey}
unto that Mgr come into a due Difcredit ‘ wich}
us. “Et, is" i@ General Conceflion of all men; who}
are, fot sHetsine too: Unrea[énable for : Common
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Conve fhtidn, That the Invitation of VVitcher afts,
is the “Ching that ha‘s’ now. Int roduced. the Devil:
ifito. the mide of us.“ Pfay-then, «Let not. only!
all VVitcherafts ‘be duely shominated with’ us, but)
‘alfo Let'us be duly’ Watchful acainft all the “Steps|
Leading, thereunto. ‘There are Tciler Sorcerse}
‘which, the ey fay, are too “frequent in ‘out’ Landy
As it was faid in 2 King.27. 9. Tbe" Children 9)
Ufrael did Secret! ly thi ofe things that were not Right nil
cainft the Lord heir God. So tis to be feared, The.
Children’ of New-En gland have. Secretly done mia}
any things iy have beet pleafing to. the Devil

They, fay. 'T hat in fome’ Towns, it ha‘s been ar
ufual Thing for People to Cure "Burts with Spells)
or toe Dereftible Conjurations, with Steves, &
“Keyes,and Peafe; and ‘Nails: and Hor {e- “Sboves, ant
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the Things, for which they have a Forbidden,
Hand an Impious’ Curiofitze. ‘Tis. in .the Devils
WName, that fuch: Things are done ; and in Gods
WName I do this Day Charge them, as vile Im-
iIpicties. “By thefe Courfes “ti, that people play
upon The Hole of rhe Afp 3 till that cruelly vene-
Ln Afp has pull'd many of them, into the
Deep’ Hole, of Witchcraft it tlt. It has been
Hlacknowledged by fome who have funk the deep-
Heft into this Horrible Pit, that they began, at
ihefe Little Warchcrafts; on which ‘tis pitty but
Withe Laws of the Englith Nation, whereby
the Incorrigible Repetition of thofe Tricks, is
imade Felony, were feverally Executed. From the
like Sinful Curiofity ic is, that the Prognoftications
Mof Sudicial Ajfroogy, are fo Injudicioully Regard-
Hed by multitudes among us; and although the
Wugling Affrologers do fcarce ever hit Right, ex-
cept it be in fuch Weighty Judgments, forfooth,
Nas that many Old Afen will Dy iuch a year, and
Nthat there will be many TLoffés fele by fome
chat Venture to Sea, and that there will be much
| Lying and Cheating in the World 5 yet their Foo-

lilh Admirers, will not be perfwaded, but that
| che Innocent Stars have been concert’d in thefe
Events. ‘It is a Difgrace to the Englith Nation,
that the Phamphlets of fuch Idic, Furil, Trifling
Star-gazers are fo much Confidered; and the
‘Countenance hereby given to a Study, wherein
at Laft, all’ is done by Impulfe, if any thing be
Mm done to ‘any purpofe at all, is not a little peril-

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lous to the Souls of men. © It is, ( @ Science, I Care|
not call it, but ) a Fuggle, whereof the Learned|§
Hall, well fays, It is prejumptuous and unwarrantable,,
ce eryd ever down by Councils and Fathers,as un'awful,\\
asthat wich Lies im the mid-way between Magick
and Imposture, and partakes not a little of both. Men,
Confule the Afpeéts of Planets, whofe Northern]
or Southern Motions teeeive Denominations. from)
a Celeftial Dragon, ull the Infernal Dragon at lengthy,
infinuate into them, with a Poyfon .of .Witcheraft \
that-can’t be cured- Has there not alfo been aj}
world of Difcontent in our Borders? “Tis no won,
der, that the Fiery Serpents are fo Stinging of us 5)
We have been a moit Murmuring. Generation... Ith
is not Irrational, to afcribe the late Stupendous.)
Growth of W%tches among us, partly to the Bitter,
Difcontents, which AffiGion and Poverty. has’ filldy
us with : it is inconceivable, what Advantage the}
Devil gains over men, by Di/content.. Moreover,
The Sin of Unbelief may be reckoned as.perhaps,,
the chief Crime of our Land. . We are told, God;|
Sovears in Wrath, againft them that believe not ; and)
what follows then but this, That the Devil. comes
unto them in wrath? Never were the Offers of the.
Gofpel; more freely Tendered, or more bafely Des
{pifed, among any people under the: whole Cope |
of Heaven, then in This New-England. Seems it)
at all marvellous unto us, that the Devil. fhould get 4
fiich Footing in our Country ? Why, ‘tis becaufe;
the Saviour has been flighted here, perhaps more }
than any where. The Bleffed Lord Jefus cae
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as been profering to us, Grace, and Glory, and every
ood thing, and been alluring of us to Accept of
Tim, with fich Terms as thefe ; Undone Sinner, I
m All; Avt thou oiling that I fhould be thy All?
ut, as.a proof of that Contempt which this Un.
Melief has caft upon thefe proffers, I would feri-
Wufly ask of the fo many Hundreds above a Thou-
wd People within thefe Walls; Which of you
1, O how few of you, can indeed fay, Chrift is
une, and | am his, and He ts the Beloved of my Soul?
1) would only fay thus much: When the precious
thd glorioys Jefus, is Entreating of us to Receive
Mim, in all His Offices, with all His Benefits ; the
‘Pevil minds what Refpe& we pay unto thar Hea-
“enly Lord; if we Refufe Him that [peaks from
Weaven, then he that, Comes from Hell, does with
“fort of claim fet in, and cry out, Lord, fince this
Wretch is not willing that thew fhoyldft have him, 1
Way, let me have bim, And thus, by the juft ven-
eance.of Heaven, the Devil becomesa Maffer, a
Nrince,a God,unto the miferable Unbelievers : bur O
(hat are many of them then hurried unto! All of
Mnefe Evil Things, do I now fet before you, as
randed with the Mark of the Devil upon them.

) V. With Great Regard, with Great Pitty, thould
te Lay to Heart the Condition of thofe, who are
Mnft into AfiGion, by the Great Wrath of the De-
Wl. There is a Number of our Good Neighbours,
Ind fome of them very particularly noted for
joodne& and Vertue, of whom we may fay, Lath,

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They are vexed with Devils, Their Tortures be. ))
ing primarily Infi@ted on their Spirits, may in- |
deed canfe the Impreffions thereof upon their if
Bodies to be the le{$ Durable, tho rather the more,
‘Senfible: but they Endure Horrible Things, and 7"!

fuffered [uch Things? I teh you No, But. except ye }
Repent ¢ pe {balk all lukewife Perifh :) Byens fo, heg
now fays, Think ye that they who now fuffer by)

the Devil, bave been greater Sinners -than rbeir %
Neighbors, No,*Do you Repent’ ‘of | your. ows i
Sins, Left the Devil come to fall foul of you, as 4
he has done to rhem, And if this be fo, How }}
Rafh a thing would it’ be, if fuch of the poor {
Sufferers, as carry ic with a Becoming Piety, +f
Sérionfhe, and Humiliation under their prefentt}
Sufferiag, thould be unjuftly Cenfured; or have!
their. very Calamity imputed unto them as a4}
Crime? it is an eafy thing, for us to fall into, |
the Fault of, Adding Afflittion to the Afflicted,
and of, Talking to the Grief of thofe: that are al- +
realy VVounded: Nor can it be Wifdom to flighty}
the Dangers of fuch a Fault. In the mean time,” |}
Y’e"have no Bowels in us, if we do not Compafli-s }
offate the Diftrefled County of Effex, now: crying) |
xo all thefé Colonies; Have pitty om me, O ye my'|

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WFriends, Have pitty on me, forthe Hand of the Lord
Was Touched me, and the Wrath of the Devil has been
berewithal turned upcw me. But indecd, ifa hear-
Wy pity be due to any, I sam dure, che: Difficulties
which: attend’ our Honourable: ‘Fadres, doe de-
mand no Inconfiderable fharein that Pitty. What
). Difficult, what an Arduous Task, have thofe
Worthy Perfonages now upon their Hands? To
carry the Knife fo exaély, that on the one fide,
‘there may be no InnecentBlood: Shed,by too unfee-
ng a Zeal for the Children. of Ifrael ; and that on the
other fide, there may be no Shelter given ‘to thofe
Diabolical Works of Darkne/s; without the RKemo-
W\wal whereof we never fhall have Peace ; or to thofe
Weuries whereof {everal have kilfd more people perhaps
Hthan would ferve to'make a Village: Hie Labor,
Hoc Opus eft ! O what.need have we, to b2 con-
Weerned, that the Sins of our [/rael, may not pro-
‘Woke the God of Heaveu to leave his Davids, un-
‘ko a wrong Step;in a matter of fuch Contequence,
‘Jas is now before them! Our Difingenuous, Un-
Vicharitable, Unchriftian Reproching at’ fuch Faith-
Wful Men, after all, The Prayers and Supplications,
“prith ftrong. Crying and Tears, with which we are
“daily .plving the Throne of Grace, that: they may
‘be kept, from what They Fear, is none of the ‘way
for our preventing of what We Fear. | Nor:all- this
while, ought our Pitty to forget fuch Accufed ones,
‘jas call for indeed our moft Compaffionate | Pitty,
ill there be fuller. Evidences that they’ are
Wels worthy of it, Lf Satan have any ae ea
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72 Bhe Monders of the

cioufly brought upon the Stage, thofe that have hi- ti
therto had a juft and good ftock of Reputation, |¥
for their juft and good Living, among us; If the tt
Evit One have obtained a permiffion to Appear, in|}
the Figure of fuch as we have caufe to think, have |i
hitherio Abstained, even from the Appearance of ib
Evil: \t isin Truth, fuch an Invafion upon Mans jh
kind, as may well Raife an Horror in us all: Bue, «
O what Compaifions are due to fuch as may come i}
under fuch Mifreprefentations, of the Great Acci= >i
fer! Who of us can fay, what may be fhown in)
the Glaffes of the Great Lying Spirit? Altho® the if
Ufuat Providence of God | we praife Him! | keeps
us from fuch a Mifhap 3. yet where have we an
Abfoiure Promife, that we fhall every one alwayes
be kept fsoni it? Aslong as Charity is bound, to
Think #0 Evil, ic will nat Hurt us that are Private
Perfuns,to forbear the ‘fadgment which belongs not 1
unto us. Let it rather be our Wifh : May the Lord »
help them to Learn the Leffons, for which they if
are now put unto fo hard a School. | )