Salem witchcraft: comprising More wonders of the invisible world, collected by Robert Calef; and Wonders of the invisible world, by Cotton Mather; ... notes and explanations, by Samuel P. Fowler. - Softcover

Historical Reprint Series, Michigan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1425552617 ISBN 13: 9781425552619

Publisher: Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library, 2005

Synopsis

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www million books com where you can read more than a million books for free This is an OCR edition with typos Excerpt from book PART IV LETTERS OF A GENTLEMAN UNINTERESTED ENDEAVOURING TO PROVE THE RECEIVED OPINIONS ABOUT WITCHCRAFT TO BE ORTHODOX TOLD you I had fome thoughts concerning witchcraft and an intention of conferring with the gentleman who has publifhed fevcral trea tifes about witchcraft and perfons afflicted by them lately here in New England but fince you have put thofe three books into my hands I find myfelf engaged in a very hard province to give you my opinion of them I plainly forefee that fhould this fcribbling of mine come to public view it would difplease all parties but that is the leaft Moreover it is fo far out of my road to fet my thoughts to confider a matter on every fide which in itfelf is fo abftrufe and every ftep I advance therein if I mifs truth which is a narrow and undivided line I muft tumble down headlong into the gulph of dangerous error Yet notwithftanding I have forced myfelf to fend thefe few lines if fo be I may clear to you a truth you now feem to be offended at becaufe of the ill confequences which you think lately have and again may be drawn from it by the ill conduct of fome men I am not ignorant that the pious frauds of the ancient and the inbred fire I do not call it pride of many of our modern divines have precipitated them to propagate and maintain truth as well as falfehoods in fuch an unfair manner as has given advantage to the enemy to fufpect the whole do

About this edition

• Publisher: Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1425552617
• ISBN 13: 9781425552619
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 474