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and otherwise pleasantly diverting themselves, scarcely deserve mention in comparison with our New England champions, who, trusting not to car. nal sword and lance, in a contest with principalities and powers,— spirits that live throughout, Vital in every part, not as frail man,— encountered their enemies with weapons forged by the stern spiritual armorer of Geneva. The life of Cotton Mather is as full of romance as the legends of Ariosto or the tales of Beltenebros and Florisando in Amadis de Gaul. All about him was enchanted ground; devils glared on him in his closet wrestlings; portents blazed in the heavens above him; while he, commissioned and set apart as the watcher, and warder, and spiritual champion of the chosen people, stood ever ready for battle, with open eye and quick ear for the detection of the subtle approaches of the enemy. No wonder is it that the spirits of evil combined against him; that they beset him as theydid of old St. Anthony; that they shut up the bowel

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