Dublin University And the New World a Memorial Discourse Preached in the Chapel
Dublin University And the New World a Memorial Discourse Preached in the Chapel
Robert H Robert Henry Murray
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To men like Increase Mather and his son Cotton these phenomena were certainly the work of the Devil. In 1689 Cotton Mather preached in Boston an elaborate ''Discourse on Witchcraft/' laying down that two proofs existed in the testimony of the Scriptures and in the evidence of men. 1 Did not the narrative of the Witch of Endor speak unmis- takably of the existence of this grievous offence in olden time ? Did not the experience of New England speak no less unmistakably of the existence of this gr...ievous offence at the present time ? Were not the cases in Salem and Andover overwhelmingly proved ? Nor were the Mathers singular in their belief. A contemporary like Sir Thomas Browne could declare : "I have ever believed, and do now know, that there are witches. They that doubt of these do not deny them, but spirits : and are obliquely, and upon consequence, a sort, not of infidels, but atheists/' 2 Three-quarters of a century later John Wesley pursued precisely the same line of reasoning. 1 Cf.
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