gs_, the Wretches have proceeded
so far, as to Concert and Consult the Methods of Rooting out the
Christian Religion from this Country, and setting up instead of it,
perhaps a more gross _Diabolesm_, than ever the World saw before. And
yet it will be a thing little short of _Miracle_, if in so _spread_ a
Business as this, the Devil should not get in some of his Juggles, to
confound the Discovery of all the rest.

S. III. Doubtless, the Thoughts of many will receive a great Scandal
against _New-England_, from the Number of Persons that have been
Accused, or Suspected, for _Witchcraft_, in this Country: But it were
easie to offer many things, that may Answer and Abate the Scandal. If
the Holy God should any where permit the Devils to hook two or three
wicked _Scholars_ into _Witchcraft_, and then by their Assistance to
Range with their _Poisonous Insinuations_ among Ignorant, Envious,
Discontented People, till they have cunningly decoy'd them into some
sudden _Act_, whereby the Toyls of Hell shall be perhaps inextricably
cast over them: what Country in the World would not afford _Witches_,
numerous to a Prodigy? Accordingly, The Kingdoms of _Sweden_, _Denmark_,
_Scotland_, yea and _England_ it self, as well as the Province of
_New-England_, have had their Storms of _Witchcrafts_ breaking upon
them, which have made most Lamentable Devastations: which also I wish,
may be _The Last_. And it is not uneasie to be imagined, That God has
not brought out all the _Witchcrafts_ in many other Lands with such a
speedy, dreadful, destroying _Jealousie_, as burns forth upon such _High
Treasons_, committed here in _A Land of Uprightness_: Transgressors may
more quickly here than elsewhere become a Prey to the Vengeance of Him,
_Who has Eyes like a Flame of Fire_, and, _who walks in the midst of the
Golden Candlesticks_. Moreover, There are many parts of the World, who
if they do upon this Occasion insult over this People of God, need only
to be told the Story of what happen'd at _Loim_, in the Dutchy of
_Gulic_, where a Popish Curate having ineffectually try'd many Charms to
Eject the Devil out of a Damsel there possessed, he passionately bid the
Devil come out of her into himself; but the Devil answered him, _Quid
mihi Opus, est eum tentare, quem Novissimo die, Jure Optimo, sum
possessurus?_ That is, _What need I meddle with one whom I am sure to
have, and hold at the Last-day as my own for ever!_

But besides all this, give me leav