Chapter 7

VII. Let our Prayer Go up with Great Faith,|

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againft the Devil, that comes down in Great,
Wrath. Such is the Antipathy of the: Devil t0\\
our Prayer, that he cannot bear to {tay long;
where much of it is: indeed it is Diabol; Fla.
gellum, as well as, Miferiae Remedium ; the Devil|
‘will foon be Scourg’d out of the Lords Temple,!
by a Whip, made and ufed, with the, Effectuat.
Fervent Prayer of Righteous Men, When, the De}

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N by: Afflicting of us, drives us to our Prayers,
is, The Fool making a Whip for his oun. Back.
ir Lord: faid: of the Deval, in. . Mat.., 17; 21-
a Kind goes not ait, but by Prayer and. \Fafting
i, Prayer and Eafting will. foon. make the De-
be gone. Here are Charms indeed! \Sacred
1 Blefled Charms, which. the Devil cannot
nd before. A Promife. of God, being well
Phnaged in the Hands of them, that are. mucn
Mon their. Knees, will fo, Reiff the Devil; that
A ewill Flee from ws. At every other - Weapon,
M Devils will be too hard for us; the Speritval
Wickedneffes in High Places, have manifeltly the
Ipper Hand of us ; that Old Serpent will be too
iid for us, too cunning, too fubtil ; they will feon
W-wit us, if we think to Encounter them with
ly Wit of our own, But when we come to
ayers, Unceflant and Vehement Prayers before
He Lord, there we fhall be too hard. for them.
‘Then well-directed Prayers, that great Artillery of
Yeaven, are brought into the Field, There, methinks
flee, There are thefe Workers of Iniqnsy fallen, all of
‘em | And’ who can tell, how much the moftt Ob-
I wre Chriffian among you all, may do towards the
eliverance of our Land from) the Mbolettations
Thich the Devil is now giving unto. Us [have
ead, That on a Day of Prayer kept by fome
‘}ood People for and with a Poffeffed Perion, the
evil at laft flew out of the Window, and refer-
“\ng toa Devout, plain, mean Woman then in

Jhe Room, he cry‘d out, O the Woman behind. the
i ae Door :

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76 Lhe Wonders of the
~ Door ! Tis that Woman that forces me away! Thus
the Devil that now Troubles us, may be forced?
within a while to Forfake us: and it fhall be faid/t
He was driven away by the prayers of fome Obfcure¥
and Retired Souls, which the world has taken but Little
notice of ! "The Great God, is about a Great Work!
at this Day among us; now there is extream Haz}
zard left the Devil who by Compulfion mult fubmit
unto that Great Work, may alfo by Persiffion comet
to Confound that Work: both in’ the Deteéfions ot
fome, and in the Confefjions of others, whofe Une}
godly Deeds may be brought forth > by a Great Work'y
of God, there is Hazzard left the Devil intertwilt }
tome of his Delufions. ‘Tis PRAYER, I fay, “tis
PRAYER ,that mutt carry us well thro® theStrange'!
Lhings that are now upon us. Only that Prayer;
muft then be, Te Prayer of Faith: O where is
our Faith in Him, Who hath Spoiled thefe Princip aeN
bittes and Powers, on His Crofs Triumphing over them"

Vill. Laftly, Shake off, every Soul, Shake offi
the Hard Yoke of the Devil, if you would not perifh

under the Great Wrath of the Devil. ' Where. “tis |,
faid, The swbhole World lies in Wackeduefs, “tis by \
fome of the Ancients rendred, The awhole world
lies im the Devil. The Devil is a Prince, yea, the}
Devil is a God unto all the Unregenerate ; and alas, ‘t
there is, 4 whole world of them. Defolate Sinners, )i .
Confider what an Horrid Lord it is that you are |
Enflav'd unto 5 and Oh fhake off your Slavery to}
fuch @ Lord, Inftead of him, now make your |

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hoice of the Eternal God in Jefus Chrift ; Choofe
im with a moft unalterable Refolution ; and un-

I) Him fay, with Thomas, My Lord, and my God!

Shy with the Church, Lord, other Lords have had
¢ Dominion over us, but now thou alone fhalt be our

Nord for ever. Then inftead of your perifhing

Nhder the wrath of the Devils, God will fetch you
' a place among thofe that fill up the Room

i) the Devils, left by their Fall from the Ethereal
egions. It was a moft awful Speech made by
1¢ Devil, Pofleffiing a young Woman, at a Village

ii Germany, By the Command of God, I am come to ,

Morment the Body of this young Woman, though 1 can:

Nt burt ber Soul ; and it is that I may warn men, to

Whe heed of Sinning againft God. Indeed (faid he }

i's very fore againjt my will that I do i 5 but the

jnmand of God forces meto declare what I dos

Nloweveer I know that at the Laft Day, I {hall have

Shore Souls than God Himfelf. So {poke that hor-

(ble Devil ! Bue O that none of our Souls may

‘- found among the Prizes of the Devil, in

‘te Day of God! O that what the Devil

ins been forc’d to Declare, of his Kingdom among

;, may prejudice our Hearts againft him for ever?
p) Ady Text faies, The Devil is come down in Great
Vrath, for be bas but a {hort Time. Yea, but if you
'b not - by a Speedy and Thorough Converfion to
lod, Efcape the Wrath of the Devil, you will your-
‘ives Go down, where the Devil isto be , and you

ill there be fweltring under the Devils Wrath, not
ic a Short Time, but, World without End ; not i 2
Baio. a heey Short

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Short Time, but for, Infizite Millions of Ages. TH
{moke of your Torment under that Hath, will J
cend for ever and ever! Indeed the Devils Fime
his Wrath wpon-yowin this World, can be but fhort
but his Tame for you to-do his Work, or, which is a4
one, todelay your turning to God,-that isa Loh
Time. When the weyil was going to\be Difpofleffel
ofa Man,he Roar‘c: out; ArT tobe Tormented’ bi
fore vay Time Lou will Torment the Devil sit you Rit
fcue yourSouls out’ of his hands, by trueR epentane |
if once'you begin’ toxdook “that way;! hee ‘ll |
out; O Wars as. before my Time, I mut have more Ti n
yer it theferviceof facha guilty Soul, But, ¥ befeec |
youster usyoin thus to Torment the Devil fan He
ly: Revenge upon him) foralbthe Inyuriés ‘which’ p}
“hasGoneunto'us's fed us cell him; Sctan, Thy Thy
with seis but fhort; Nays thy Time owith me fhaltiy
nome 5. lame unuiterably [orry that it bas beem{l
“aesch's Depart frome me thou Evil-Doer, that would,
have me to be an RviliDoew Like thy elf; Vowilf 20;
‘for. ever keep the Commandment s of that God,in whom
Live, and Move; and have my Bemg :- The Devil fi]
“plaid: a fine Game’ for himfelf tdeeds if 6
Bis Troubling of our Land, the fouls of many Pé
ple theul come ro, Lbink upon 'their- Wayes, t)
evr toey turn their Feet into-the TelFimonies of the Lorik

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Now that the Devilmay be thus outfhét im’ his ow!
Bow, the DeGe‘of all’ that Love the Salvation ail
God among us, as wellas‘of hint, WHO has thus At

refled You.’ Amen, WE Sd S100) a

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i a Aving thus difcourfed on the Wonders of the In-
14 vif ble World, 1 fhall now, with Gods Help,
Ml Sn €o relate fome Remarkable and Memorabi¢

ances of Wonders which that World ha‘s given
| liourfelves. And altho‘ the chief Entertainment
Bich my Readers do Expect,and fhall Receive,will
Ha Truc Hiftory of what ha‘s occurred, reipect-
I> the WITCHCRAFTS wherewith we are at
Bis day perfecuted, yet I fhall choofe to Ulher in
Mc mention of thofe Things, with |

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Which a°:Gentleman in Boffo, had of his Brother,
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NT was, on the Second of May in the Year 1687
WL that a'moft ingenious, accomplithed and well-
P)tpofed’ young Gentleman, Mr. Fofepo Beacon, by
lame, about Five a clock in the Morning, as he
y, whether Sleeping or Waking he could not fay;
but judged the latter of them, ) had a View of his
\cother then at London, altho’ he was now himfelf

\: Our Bofon, diftanced from him a Thoufand
: Leagues:

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Leagues. This his Brother appear‘d unto him, #
the Morning, about five a Clock at Boffon, havi ‘
on bima Besgale Gown, which he ufually word§
witha Napkin Ty‘d about his Head; His Countd
nance was very Pale, Ghaftly, Deadly, and he half
a. Bloody’ Wound On one. Side. of hi
Forchead! . Brother! . faies the Affrighte)
Foleph. Brother ! Anfwered the Apparition. Sai |
Jofeph, What's the matter, Brother! How came 70)
were ! ‘Che Apparition reply‘d, Brother, I have beef
gol? Barbaroully and Injurioufly Butchered, by
Debauch'd, Drunken Fellow, to whom I never di;
any wrong in my life, Whereupon he gave «
particular Defcription of the Murderer; adding,
Brother, This Fellow, changing his Name, is attem i
ting to come cover unto’ New-England, im Foy o}
Wild ; I would. pray you, on the firft Arrival. 0
exther of thefe, to'get an Order from the Governour't
to Seiz the perfon, whom I have now defcribed |
and then do you Indiéh him for the Murder of m
your Brother: Ile Stand by you, and prove the Int
ditiment. And fo he vanithed. Mr. Beacon wal
extreamly aftoniihed at what he had feen anc
heard; and the People of the Family not onk
_obferved. an extraordinary Alteration upon. hima,
for the Week following, but have alfo given mr!
under their Hands a full Teftimony,» that h
then. gave them am Account of this Apparition. {
~All this while, Mr. Beacon had no. Advice 0}
any thing amils attending his. Brother then _ in,
England; byt abouc. the latter end of fune 2a

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Mowing, he underftood by the common ways of
\ ommunication, that the 4prit betore, his Brother
qoing in haft by night to calla coach fora Lady,
pect a fellow thenin drink, with his Docy in |
Hand. Some way or other thefeliow thought him-
Wif affrontted in the hafty paflage of this Beacon, &
Wmmediately ran in to the Fire-lide of a Neighbour-
ag Tavern, from whence he fetch‘d out a Fire-fork,
yherewith he gricvoufly wounded Beacen in the.
ull 5 even in that very part, where the Apparition
frow'd his wound, Of this Wound he Laneuifhed
fotil he Dy“d, on the fecond of Asay, about five
at the Clock in the morning at Londox, The mur-
{ erer it feems, was endeavouring an efcape, as the
‘pparition affirm‘d,bue the Friends of the Deceafed
ycacon fiezed him: and profecuting him at Law,
We found the help of fuch Friends, as brought him
i bethstt the lofs of his Life ; fince which, there
: as no more been heard of the Bufinefs.
This Hiltory I received of Mr ‘Fofeph Beacon
imfelf ; who, a lite before his own Pious & Hope:
i! Death, which follow‘d not long after, gave me
ic Story written and figned with his own Hand,
ad Attefted with the Circumftances I have already
mentioned.
ee I fhall no longer detain my Peader, frone
J Hisexpe@ed entertainment; in 2 Brief Ac-
nut Of the Trials, which have pafled upon fome
Ay the Malcfactors, Larely Exccuted at Salem, for
[|S Waschcrafis, whereot ru ligod Convicteds For

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Ving Relations or thoie perions, with and for, |
whom would D2 as ficarty a mourmer as any Mia

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Living in the World: Tue Lord Comfort.them + But}

having. Received a Command, fo to do, I can do
no othcr then fhovtly Relate the Chief Adatters of
{2% which accurr‘d is the Trials of fome that where
Cxecuted s in an Abridgment colle&ed out of th]
Court-Papers, on. this oceafion put into my Han
You are to take the Zrwd, juft asit was;and ¢
Truth wilh burt no good man. “There might have

_ been more of thefé,if my Book would not thereby}
have been fwollen too big; and if fome other wor+
thy hands did not perhaps intend fomething fur}
ther in thefe Collections s for which caufe I have only!

fingled out Four or Five which may {erve to uf)

trate the way of dealing, wherein Witcherafts uff
to be concerned; and! Report matters not as af

Advocate but as an Hiftorian. |

They were fome of the Gracious Words, inferted),
nthe Advice, which many of the Neighbouring}
Minifters, did this Summer humbly. lay before om |
Honourable Judges, We cannot but with all thankful
nels, acknowledge the fuccefs which the Merciful God ba
given unto the Seduloxs and Affiduous endeavours of Our)
Honourable Rulers, to. deteét. the .aboninable Witchcraft!
which have been commitied in the Country; Humbly Pray
ing that the difcovery of -thofe.mayfertous and mifch
ous wickednepes, may be perfecced At in the ae | |

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ype many Diifatisfactions among us, the publication,
\if theic ‘Trials, may promoteduch a pious Phankfyt.
ie(s unto God, for Juitice being (2 far, executed a-
pong us,J {hall Rejoyce that God is Glorified
qed pray that no wrong fteps of ours may ever
Milly any of His Glorious Works.

: But we wil begin with,
) Modern Inftance of Witches Difcovered and
Condemned, in a Trial, before that Celebrated
Judge, Sir. Matthew Hale. |

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Wy I may. caft fome Light’ upon the Dark
ib, Things now in America, if we jult give a olance
pon the, Like Things lately hapening in Europes
Ve may fee the Witcherafts here; mot exactly ree

rmble the Witcherafis there; and we may learr
(Phat fort of Devils do trouble the World,

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Che Venerable Baxter very truly fais, Fudge Hale
ras @ Perfon, than whom no Man; was more backward.
Ap Condemn a Witch, without full Evidence.

Now, One of the Latett Printed Accounts, about
} Zrial of Witches, is of what was be fore hin; ah

| anon this wife. [ Printed in the Year 16% }
Hind it is here the rather mentioned, becaufé it was
j} Trial, much, confidered by the Judges- of Newe
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i | 1 Rofe Cullender, and ‘A my Dungy, were feverally
gpdicted, for Bewitching Euixaberh Durent, Ans
gy ety Fang Bogk-uny was Chandler, William Durents
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84 «The MHonvers of the

Elizabeth and Deborah Peey.. And the evidence,)
whereon they were Convicted, ftocd upon diverley
particular Circumftances. |
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