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A32160	More wonders of the invisible world, or, The wonders of the invisible world display'd in five parts ... : to which is added a postscript relating to a book intitled, The life of Sir William Phips / collected by Robert Calef, merchant of Boston in New England.	Calef, Robert, 1648-1719.	1700 (1700)	Wing C288; ESTC R7219	167,192	172

pronounce Come unto me ye blessed and depart ye cursed into Everlasting fire 4. That Soveraigns who have received the Gospel of our Lord have not therefore lost their Power of enacting Laws for the ruling and preserving their People and punishing Malefactors even with Death so that the Criminal is as justly condemned to die by our Municipal as he was heretofore by the Judicial Law among the Jews How much more then ought our Law to advert against the highest of all Criminals those execrable Men and Women who tho yet alive have listed themselves under Satan's banner and explicitly Sworn Allegiance to him to fight against God and Christ indeed all unholy Men afford great matter to the Devils of Blaspheming but these wretches have confederated themselves with the Devils to blaspheme and destroy all they can and do you think that these common Enemies of God and Mankind ought to be suffered to live in a Christian Common wealth especially considering that we have a President of putting them to death from God himself when he acted as King over his own peculiar People But me thinks I hear you saying all this doth not satisfie me for I am sure nothing can be added to the Devils Malice and if he could he certainly would appear and frighten all Men out of their wits I Answer 1. We must not reject a truth because we cannot resolve all the Questions that may be proposed about it otherwise all our Science must be turned into Sceptism for we have not a Comprehensive knowledge of any one thing 2. When you say that if the Devil could he would appear and frighten all Men the Lawful consequence is not that he cannot appear at all for we have undoubtedly proved the contrary but that we are Ignorant of the bounds that the Almighty hath hath set to him whose malice indeed if he were not restrain'd is so great as to destroy all Men but the goodness of our God is greater who hath given us means to escape his fury if we will give earnest heed to the Gospel of our Saviour which only is able to comfort us against the sad and miserable condition of our present state for not only the Devils but likewise all do conspire against us to work our ruine The deluge came and swept away all the race save eight persons of mankind the Fire will in time devour what the Water has left and all this cometh to pass because of Sin but we who have received the Lord Jesus look for new Heavens and a new Earth wherein dwelleth Righteousness Therefore he if we purifie our selves as he is pure will save us for when he appears we shall be made like unto him to whom be Glory for ever Amen from the great destruction that must come upon all the World and the Inhabitants thereof Farewell March 8 th 1693 4. Boston March 20. 1693 Worthy Sir THAT great pains you have taken for my Information and Satisfaction in those controverted points relating to Witchcraft whether it attain the end or not cannot require less than suitable acknowledgments and gratitude especially considering you had no particular obligation of office to it and when others whose proper Province it was had declined it It is a great truth that the many Heresies among the Christians nor the lying Miracles or Witchcrafts used by some to induce to the worship of Images c. must not give a Mortal wound to Christianity or Truth but the great question in these controverted points still is what is truth And in this search being agreed in the Iudge or Rule there is great hopes of the Issue That there are Witches is plain from that Rule of Truth the Scriptures which commands their punishment by Death But what that Witchcraft is or wherein it does consist is the whole difficulty That head cited from Mr. Gaule and so well proved thereby not denied by any makes the work yet shorter so that it is agreed to consist in a Malignity c. and seeking by a sign to seduce c. not excluding any other sorts or branches when as well proved by that infallible Rule That good Angels have appeared is certain tho that instance of those to Abraham may admit of a various construction some Divines supposing them to be the Trinity others that they were Men-messengers as Judges 2.1 and others that they were Angels but tho this as I said might admit of a debate yet I see no question of the Angel Gabriel's appearance particularly to the B. Virgin for tho the Angels are Spirits and so not perceptible by our bodily Eyes without the appointment of the most high yet he who made all things by his word in the Creation can with a word speak things into Being And whether the Angels did assume matter or a Vehicle and by that appear to the bodily Eye or whether by the same word there were an Idea fram'd in the mind which needed no Vehicle to represent them to the Intellects is with the All-wise and not for me to dispute If we poor shallow Mortals do not comprehend the manner how that argues only our weakness Two other times did this glorious Angel appear Dan. 8.16 Dan 9.21 The first of these times was in Vision as by the text and context will appear The second was the same as at the first which being considered as it will ascertain that Angels have appear'd so that 't is at the will of the Sender how they shall appear whether to the bodily Eye or Intellect only Mat. 1.20 The appearance of the Angel to Joseph was in a Dream and yet a real appearance so was there a real appearance to the Apostle but whether in the body or out of the body he could not tell and that they are sent and come not of their own motion Luk. 1.26 And in the sixth Month the Angel Gabriel was sent from God Dan. 9.23 At the beginning of thy supplication the commandment came forth and I am come v. 21. Being caused to fly swiftly c. but from these places may be set down as undoubted truths or conclusions 1. That the glorious Angels have their Mission and Commission from the most high 2. That without this they cannot appear to mankind And from these two will necessarily flow a third 3. That if the glorious Angels have not that power to go till commissioned or to appear to Mortals then not the fallen Angels who are held in Chains of darkness to the Iudgment of the great day Therefore to argue that because the good Angels have appeared the evil may or can is to me as if because the dead have been raised to life by Holy Prophets therefore Men wicked Men can raise the dead As the sufferings so the temptations of our Saviour were in degree beyond those common to Man he being the second Adam or publick head the strongest assaults were now improved and we read that he was tempted that he might be able to succour them that

being more Cunning or more seeming Religious might yet be more guilty the whole depending upon Invisible Evidence of which Invisible stuff tho' we have had more than sufficient yet I find among other Reverend Persons your Names to acertain Printed Paper which runs thus Certain Proposals made by the President and Fellows of Harvard College To the Reverend Ministers of the Gospel in the several Churches of New-England FIrst To observe and record the more Illustrious Discoveries of the Divine Providence in the Government of the World is a design so holy so useful so justly approved that the too general neglect of it in the Churches of God is as justly to be Lamented 2. For the redress of that neglect altho' all Christians have a Duty in●umbent on them yet it is in a peculiar manner to be recommended unto the Ministers of the Gospel to improve the special advantages which are in their Hands to obtain and preserve the knowledge of such notable occurrences as are sought out by all that have pleasure in the great Works of the Lord. 3. The things to be esteemed Memorable are especially all unusual accidents in the Heaven or Earth or Water All wonderful Deliverances of the Distressed Mercies to the Godly Iudgments on the Wicked and more Glorious fulfillments of either the Promises or Threatnings in the Scriptures of Truth with Apparitions Possessions Enchantments and all extraordinary things wherein the Existence and Agency of the Invisible World is more sensibly demonstrated 4. It is therefore Proposed That the Ministers throughout this Land would manifest their Pious regards unto the Works of the Lord and the Opperation of his hands by reviving their cares to take Written Accounts of such Remarkables But still well Attested with credibled and sufficient Witness 5. It is desired that the Accounts thus taken of these Remarkables may be sent in unto the President or the Fellows of the Colledge by whome they shall be carefully reserved for such a use to be made of them as may by some fit Assembly of Ministers be Iudged most conducing to the Glory of God and the Service of his People 6. Tho' we doubt not that love to the Name of God will be motive enough unto all good Men to Contribute what Assistance they can unto this Vndertaking yet for further Incouragement some singular Marks of Respects shall be studied for such good Men as will actually assist it by taking pains to Communicate any Important Passages proper to be inserted in this Collection Cambr. March 5. 1693 4 Increase Mather President Iames Allen Fellow Char. Morton Fellow Sam. Willard Fellow Cotton Mather Fellow Iohn Leverett Fellow Will. Brattle Fellow Neh. Walter Fellows Here being an Encouragement to all good Men to send in such remarkables as are therein expressed I have sent in the following not that I think them a more sensible demonstration of the being of a future State with rewards and Punishments or of Angels good and bad c. than the Scriptures of truth hold forth c. Or than any of those other demonstrations God has given us for this were Treacherously and Perfidiously to quit the Post to the Enemy the Saducee Deist and Atheist would hereby be put in a condition so Triumphantly to deny the Existence and Agency thereof As that a few Sories told which at best must be owned to be fallible and liable to misrepresentations could not be thought Infallibly sufficient to demonstrate the truth against them I have heard that in Logick a false Argument is reckon'd much worse than none Yet supposing that a Collection of Instances may be many ways useful not only to the present but succeeding Ages I have sent you the following remarkables which have lately occurred the certainty of which if any scruple it will be found no hard matter to get satisfaction therein But here not to insist on those less occurrents as the sudden Death of one of our late Justices and a like Mortallity that fell upon the two Sons of another of them with the Fall of a Man that was making provision to raise the New Northern Bell which when it was up the first person whose death it was to signifie was said to be a Child of him who by Printing and speaking had had as great hand in procuring the late Actions as any if not the greatest And the Splitting the Gun at Salem where that furious Marshal and his Father c. was rent to pieces c. As to all these it must be owned that no man knows love or hatred by all that is before him much less can they be more sensible demonstrations of the Existence and Agency of the Invisible World than the Scriptures of Truth afford c. tho' the Rich Man in the Parable might think otherwise c. who was seeking to send some more sensible Demonstrations thereof to his Brethren c. In that Tremendous Judgment of God upon this Countrey by the late amazing Prosecution of the People here under the Notion of Witches whereby 20 Suffered as Evil doers besides those that died in Prison about ten more Condemned and a hundred Imprisoned and about two hundred more Accused and the Countrey generally in fears when it would come to their turn to to be Accused and the Prosecution and manner of Tryal such that most would have chosen to have fallen into the hands of the Barbarous Enemy rather than under that notion into the hands of their Brethren in Church Fellowship and in short was such an Affliction as far exceeded all that ever this Countrey hath laboured under Yet in this Mount God is seen when it was thus bad with this distressed People a full and a sudden stop is put not only without but against the Inclination of many for out of the Eater came forth Meat Those very Accusers which had been improved as Witnesses against so many by the Providence of the most High and perhaps blinded with Malice are left to accuse those in most High esteem both Magistrates and Ministers as guilty of Witchcraft which shewed our Rulers that necessity lay upon them to confound that which had so long confounded the Countrey as being unwilling themselves to run the same risque this that was in the Event of it to this Countrey as Life from the Dead is most easie with him in whole Hands are the Hearts of all Men and was a very signal deliverance to this whole Countrey No less Observable wat it that tho' at the time when the Devils Testimony by the Affl●cted was first laid aside there were great Numbers of real or pretended Afflicted Yet when this was once not Judged of Validity enough to be any longer brought into the Court against the Accused as Evidence the Affliction generally ceased and only some remainders of it in such places where more Encouragement was given to the Actors God seeming thereby plainly to Decypher that Sin of going to the Devil c. as the rise and foundation of those Punishments

while she lay in bed went to see her Children P. 153. A Dog appeared like a Fly or a Flea P. 165. Some knowing Agents directs Thunder storms tho' the Author knows not who and that they so often fall on Churches he knows not why P. 2 80. Mr. I. M. and Mr. C. M. Recommended together with B●d●n c. P. 237. A Crispian if through Ignorance he believes not what he saith may be a Christian. In this Sir I suppose that if I have not wronged the sense of the Author in the places quoted which I trust you shall not find I have done I can't be thought accountable for the Errors or Contradictions to him●self or to the truth if any such be found particularly what he grants in the Preface of the free-will of Man giving the Devil his hurting power This being not only more than those call'd Witch-Advocates would desire to be conceded to them But is a palpable and manifest overturning the Authors design in all his Witch stories For who would consent to have the Devil afflict himself As also his concession that no Spirit can do any thing but by God's will and permission I cannot perswade my self but you must be sensible of their apparent contradictor●ness to the rest Others there are of a very ill aspect as p. 234. the Catholicks are much encouraged in their Adoration of Angels and and Saints If that were so Innocent as not to render them Anti-christian Idolaters and that p. 4. if admitted will seem to lay an ungainsayable foundation for the ●agan Indian and Diabolists Faith by telling us it is beyond our search to know how far God leaves the Devils to free-will to do what they please in this World with a suspension of God●s Predetermination which if it were a truth what were more rational than to oblige him that has such power over us The Atheists also would take encouragement if it were granted that we cannot know how far God suspends his predetermining motion he would thence affirm we as little know that there is a predetermining motion and consequently whether there be a God and p 165. would abundantly strengthen them when such a Learned experienced and highly esteemed Christian shall own that he knows not who 't is that governs the Thunder-storms for it might as well discover ignorance who 't is that disposes of Earthquakes Gun-shot and Afflictions that befall any with the rest of Mundane Events I design not to remark all that in the Book is remarkable such as the departed Souls wand'ring again hither to put men upon revenge c. favouring so much of Pithagoras his Transmigration of Souls and the Separation of the Soul from the Body without death as in the case of her that went to see her Children while yet she did no●●●ir out of her Bed which seems to be a new speculation unless it determins in favour of Transubstantiation that a Body may be at the same time in several places Upon the whole it is ungainsayable That that Book though so highly extol'd may be justly expected to occasion the staggering of the weak and the hardening of unbelievers in their Infidelity And it seems amazing that you should not only give it such a recommend but that you should send it to me in order as I take it to pervert me from the belief of those fundamental Doctrinals above recited Though I account them more firm than Heaven and Earth But that which is yet more strange to me is that Mr. B his Friends did not advise him better than in his declined Age to emit such crude matter to the publick As to the sometime Reverend Author let his works praise the Remembrance of him but for such as are either Erroneous and foisted upon him or the effect of an aged Imbecillity let them be detected that they may proceed no further I a● not ignorant that the manner of Education of Youth in I think almost all Christian Schools hath a natural tendency to propagate those Doctrines of Devils heretofore solely profest among Ethnicks and particularly in matters of Witchcraft c. For notwithstanding the Council of Carthage their taking notice that the Christian Doctors did converse much with the writings of the Heathens for the gaining of Eloquence forbad the reading of the Books of the Gentiles yet it seems this was only a Bill without a penalty which their Successors did not look upon to be binding He that should in this age take a view of the Schools might be induced to believe that the ages since have thought that without such Heathen Learning a man cannot be so accomplish'd as to have any pretence to Academick Literature and that the vulgar might not be without the benefit of such Learning some of their Disciples have taught them to speak English which has given me the opportunity to send you these following Verses Sure love is not the cause their bones appear Some eyes bewitch my tender Lambs I fear For me these Herbs in Pontus Maeris chose There ev'ry powerful Drug in plenty grows Transform'd to a Wolf I often Maeris saw Then into shady Woods himself withdraw Oft he from deepest Sepulchers would Charm Departed Souls And from anothers Farm Into his own ground Corn yet standing take Now from the Town my Charms bring Daphnis back Vanquisht with charms from Heaven the Moon descends Circe with Charms transform'd Ulysses friends Charms in the Field will burst a Poysonus Snake Now from the Town c. Her Arms thrice turns about thrice wets her crown With gather'd dew thrice yawns and kneeling down Oh Night thou friend to secrets you clear fires That with the Moon succeed when day retires Great Hecate thou know'st and aid Imparts To our design you Charms and Magick Arts And thou oh Earth that to Magicians yields Thy powerful Simples Airs Winds Mountains Fields Soft murmuring Springs still Lakes and Rivers clear You Gods of Woods you Gods of night appear By you at will I make swift Streams retire To their first Fountain while their Banks admire Seas toss and smooth clear Clouds with Clouds deform Storms turn to Calms and make a Calm a Storm With Spells and Charms I break the Vipers Iaws Cleave solid Rocks Oaks from their sisures draw Whole Woods remove the Airy Mountains shake Earth forc'd to groan and Ghosts from Graves awake her Iourney takes To Rhegium opposite to Zanle's shore And treads the troubled Waves that loudly roar Running with unwet Feet on that profound As if Sh' had trod upon the solid ground This with portentous poysons she pollutes Besprinkled with the juice of wicked roots In words dark and perplext nine times thrice Inchantments mutters with her wicked voice c. These Fables of the Heathens tho' in themselves of no more validity than the idle Tales of an Indian or the Discourses of a known Romancer are become the School-learning not to say the Faith of Christians and are the Scriptures brought instead of that most sure