 | 10.
Heavens Alarm
and
A Latter Sign
are less critical, of course.
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| 11. (Boston, 1684).
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| 12. Mather reconstructs the origins of the book in its Preface. There is a full account in Thomas J. Holmes,
Increase Mather: A Bibliography
, I, 240-49.
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| 13. (Boston, 1679), 70-72.
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| 14. Increase Mather,
An Essay For The Recording Of Illustrious Providences
, 32-72, and
passim
.
|
| 15.
Ibid
. 74-75, and
passim
.
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| 16.
Ibid
. 99-100, 109, for the quotations. The stories fill the book.
|
| 17. For the interesting comments on magnetic variation see
Ibid
. 104-5.
|
| 18. Joseph Glanvill,
Sadducismus Triumphatus
(London, 1681), "Preface."
|
| 19. For Martha Cory, see Marion L. Starkey,
The Devil in Massachusetts
(Garden City, N.Y., 1961), 66-68, 72-75, and
passim
.
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| 20. For biographical and bibliographical information on these writers, see Holmes,
Increase Mather
, I, 248, notes. I have read their works cited there, and this paragraph is based on my reading.
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| 21. Increase Mather,
An Essay, passim
.
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| 22. One such writer, discussed below, was Merci Casaubon, author of
A Treatise Concerning Enthusiasme, As It is An Effect Of Nature: But Is Mistaken By Many For Either Divine Inspiration, Or Diabolical Inspiration
(London, 1655). Casaubon did admit that witches existed, however.
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