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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Colonial history. (search)
undone. Far different was the reasoning of Cotton Mather. He was met continually with all sorts of objections and objectors against the work doing at Salem. The Chap. XIX.} obstinate Sadducees, the witch advocates, who esteemed the executions to be judicial murders, gained 1692 such influence as to embarrass the governor. But Cotton Mather, still eager to lift up a standard against the infernal enemy, undertook the defence of his friends; and he sent to Salem for an account strong Sept 20. enough to knock down one that believed nothing reasonable, promising to box it about among his neighbors till it come he knows not where at last. Before the opening of the adjourned session of the general court, the indefatigable man had prepared his Oct. 12. narrative of the Wonders of the Invisible World, in the design of promoting a pious thankfulness to God I. Mather's Cases of Conscience for justice being so far executed among us. For this book he received the approbation of the p