The Emancipation of Massachusetts : the Dream And the Reality
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There is an instant in the bat- tle as the ranks are wavering, when the calmness of 1 Memorable Providences, pp. 27, 28. 2 Idem, pp. 15-17. THE WITCHCRAFT. 393 the officers will avert the rout ; and as to have held their soldiers then is deemed their highest honor, so to have been found wanting is their indelible disgrace ; the people stood poised upon the panic's brink, their pastors lashed them in. Cotton Mather forthwith published a terrific ac- count of the ghostly crisis, mixed with denunc...iations of the Sadducee or Atheist who disbelieved ; and to the book was added a preface, written by the four other clergymen who had assisted with their prayers, the character of which may be judged by a single extract. " The following account will afford to him that shall read with observation, a further clear confirmation, that, there is both a God, and a devil, and witchcraft : that there is no outward affliction, but what God may, (and sometimes doth) permit Satan to trouble his peo- ple withal." ^ Not content with this, Mather goaded his congregation into frenzy from the pulpit.
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