1890 Salem Witch Trial Witchcraft Puritan Increase Mather Remarkable Providences

1890 Salem Witch Trial Witchcraft Puritan Increase Mather Remarkable Providences

“It were better that Ten Suspected Witches should escape, than that one Innocent Person should be Condemned.”

– Increase Mather

Increase Mather was important Puritan minister whose was a notorious figure in the Salem Witch Trials. He was controversially disliked by many for his adamant plea to defend the accused. He preached out against the executions as well as against witchcraft. He also published a work entitled ‘Remarkable Providences’ (1684) in which he thoroughly describes the state of colonial life in Massachusetts before the Witch Trials from a Puritan perspective. He tells stories of the supernatural, instances of miracles, and prophetic signs. The most important portion of this book is the section devoted to witchcraft and demonology.

Item number: #26019

Price: $499

MATHER, Increase

Remarkable providences illustrative of the earlier days of American colonization

London: Reeves and Turner, 1890.

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages
  • xix, [17], 262, [2]
  • Includes engraved portrait of Mather
• Provenance:
  • Bookplate – E. L. Allhusen
  • Handwritten – Norman S. Kerr
    • Norman Shanks Kerr FLS (1834–1899) was a Scottish physician and social reformer who is remembered for his work in the British temperance movement. He originated the Total Abstinence Society and was founder and first president of the Society for the Study and Cure of Inebriety which was founded in 1884. In his writings, he insisted on regarding inebriety as a disease and not a vice, a stance that differed greatly from popular opinion of the time.
  • Language: English
  • Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure
    • Red cloth
  • Size: ~7in X 4.75in (18cm x 12cm)

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