Charles Wentworth Upham - The True Story of Salem - Book 1-7

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The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. More than 200 people were accused, 19 of whom were found guilty and executed by hanging (14 women and 5 men). One other man, Giles Corey, was crushed to death for refusing to plead, and at least five people died in jail. It was the deadliest witch hunt in the history of colonial North America. This collection contains works that concern this infamous witch hunt and trials:
The Wonders of the Invisible World by Cotton Mather and Increase Mather
Salem Witchcraft by Charles Wentworth Upham
Salem Witchcraft and Cotton Mather by Charles Wentworth Upham
A Short History of the Salem Village Witchcraft Trials by M. V. B. Perley
An Account of the Witchcraft Delusion at Salem in 1682 by James Thacher
House of John Procter, Witchcraft Martyr, 1692 by William P. Upham
The Salem Witchcraft by Samuel Roberts Wells

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Corollary V.

Good News for the Israel of God, and particularly for his New-English Israel . If the Devils Time were above a thousand years ago , pronounced short , what may we suppose it now in our Time? Surely we are not a thousand years distant from those happy thousand years of rest and peace, and (which is better) Holiness reserved for the People of God in the latter days; and if we are not a thousand years yet short of that Golden Age, there is cause to think, that we are not an hundred . That the blessed Thousand years are not yet begun, is abundantly clear from this, We do not see the Devil bound; No, the Devil was never more let loose than in our Days; and it is very much that any should imagine otherwise: But the same thing that proves the Thousand Years of prosperity for the Church of God, under the whole Heaven, to be not yet begun , does also prove, that it is not very far off ; and that is the prodigious wrath with which the Devil does in our days Persecute, yea, desolate the World. Let us cast our Eyes almost where we will, and we shall see the Devils domineering at such a rate as may justly fill us with astonishment; it is questionable whether Iniquity ever were so rampant, or whether Calamity were ever so pungent, as in this Lamentable time ; We may truly say, 'Tis the Hour and the Power of Darkness. But, tho the wrath be so great , the time is but short : when we are perplexed with the wrath of the Devil, the Word of our God at the same time unto us, is that in Rom. 16.20. The God of Peace shall bruise Satan under your feet Shortly. Shortly, didst thou say, dearest Lord! O gladsome word! Amen, Even so, come Lord! Lord Jesus, come quickly! We shall never be rid of this troublesome Devil, till thou do come to Chain him up!

But because the people of God, would willingly be told whereabouts we are, with reference to the wrath and the time of the Devil, you shall give me leave humbly to set before you a few Conjectures .

The first Conjecture.

The Devils Eldest Son seems to be towards the End of his last Half-time ; and if it be so, the Devils Whole-time , cannot but be very near its End . It is a very scandalous thing that any Protestant , should be at a loss where to find the Anti-Christ . But, we have a sufficient assurance, that the Duration of Anti-Christ , is to be but for a Time , and for Times , and for Half a time ; that is for Twelve hundred and Sixty Years . And indeed, those Twelve Hundred and Sixty Years , were the very Spott of Time left for the Devil , and meant when 'tis here said, He has but a short time. Now, I should have an easie time of it, if I were never put upon an Harder Task , than to produce what might render it extreamly probable, that Antichrist entred his last Half-time , or the last Hundred and Fourscore years of his Reign, at or soon after the celebrated Reformation which began at the year 1517 in the former century. Indeed, it is very agreeable to see how Antichrist then lost Half of his Empire; and how that half which then became Reformed , have been upon many accounts little more than Half-reformed . But by this computation, we must needs be within a very few years of such a Mortification to befal the See of Rome , as that Antichrist, who has lately been planting (what proves no more lasting than) a Tabernacle in the Glorious Holy Mountain between the Seas , must quickly, Come to his End and none shall help him . So then, within a very little while, we shall see the Devil stript of the grand, yea, the last, Vehicle , wherein he will be capable to abuse our World. The Fires , with which, That Beast is to be consumed, will so singe the Wings of the Devil too, that he shall no more set the Affairs of this world on Fire . Yea, they shall both go into the same Fire , to be tormented for ever and ever .

The Second Conjecture.

That which is, perhaps, the greatest Effect of the Devils Wrath , seems to be in a manner at an end : and this would make one hope that the Devils time cannot be far from its end . It is in Persecution, that the wrath of the Devil uses to break forth, with its greatest fury. Now there want not probabilities, that the last Persecution intended for the Church of God, before the Advent of our Lord, has been upon it. When we see the second Woe passing away , we have a fair signal given unto us, That the last slaughter of our Lord's Witnesses is over; and then what Quickly follows? The next thing is, The Kingdoms of this World, are become the Kingdoms of Our Lord, and of His Christ: and then down goes the Kingdom of the Devil, so that he cannot any more come down upon us. Now, the Irrecoverable and Irretrievable Humiliations that have lately befallen the Turkish Power , are but so many Declarations of the second Woe passing away . And the dealings of God with the European parts of the world, at this day, do further strengthen this our expectation. We do see, at this hour a great Earth-quake all Europe over : and we shall see, that this great Earth-quake , and these great Commotions, will but contribute unto the advancement of our Lords hitherto-depressed Interests. 'Tis also to be remark'd that, a disposition to recognize the Empire of God over the Conscience of man, does now prevail more in the world than formerly; and God from on High more touches the Hearts of Princes and Rulers with an averseness to Persecution. 'Tis particularly the unspeakable happiness of the English Nation, to be under the Influences of that excellent Queen, who could say, In as much as a man cannot make himself believe what he will, why should we Persecute men for not believing as we do! I wish I could see all good men of one mind; but in the mean time I pray, let them however love one another. Words worthy to be written in Letters of Gold! and by us the more to be considered, because to one of Ours did that royal Person express Her self so excellently, so obligingly. When the late King James published his Declaration for Liberty of Conscience , a worthy Divine in the Church of England , then studying the Revelation , saw cause upon Revelational Grounds, to declare himself in such words as these, Whatsoever others may intend or design by this Liberty of Conscience, I cannot believe, that it will ever be recalled in England, as long as the World stands. And you know how miraculously the Earth-quake which then immediately came upon the Kingdom, has established that Liberty ! But that which exceeds all the tendencies this way, is, the dispensation of God at this Day, towards the blessed Vaudois . Those renowned Waldenses , which were a sort of Root unto all Protestant Churches, were never dissipated, by all the Persecutions of many Ages, till within these few years, the French King and the Duke of Savoy leagued for their dissipation. But just Three years and a half after the scattering of that holy people, to the surprise of all the World, Spirit of life from God is come into them; and having with a thousand Miracles repossessed themselves of their antient Seats, their hot Persecutor is become their great Protector . Whereupon the reflection of the worthy person, that writes the story is, The Churches of Piemont, being the Root of the Protestant Churches, they have been the first established; the Churches of other places, being but the Branches, shall be established in due time, God will deliver them speedily, He has already delivered the Mother, and He will not long leave the Daughter behind: He will finish what he has gloriously begun!

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