The wonders of the invisible world
Subtitle: observations as well historical as theological upon the nature, the number, and the operations of the devils, accompany'd with I. Some accounts of the grievous molestations by daemons and witchcrafts which have lately annoy'd the countrey, and the trials of some eminent malefactors executed upon occasion thereof with several remarkable curiosities therein occurring; II. Some counsils directing a due improvement of the terrible things lately done by the unusual & amazing range of evil spirits in our neighbourhood, & the methods to prevent the wrongs which those evil angels may intend against all sorts of people among us, especially in accusations of the innocent; III. Some conjectures upon the great events likely to befall the world in general and New-England in particular, as also upon the advances of the time when we shall see better dayes; IV. A short narrative of a late outrage committed by a knot of witches in Swedeland very much resembling, and so far explaining, that under which our parts of America have laboured; V. The Devil discovered in a brief discourse upon those temptations which are the more ordinary devices of the Wicked One
By: by Cotton Mather.
Contributors: John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Printed by Benj. Harris for Sam. Phillips
Published: 1693
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 151
Subjects: Witchcraft -- Massachusetts -- Early works to 1800; Trials (Witchcraft) -- Massachusetts -- Early works to 1800; Devil -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Notes: Evans 657
Signatures: [A]⁸ B⁴ 2b⁴ C-L⁸ M-P⁴.
LC copy imperfect: t.p. (supplied in photostat) and p. 27-32 at end wanting.