290. Cotton Mather, unlike his father and Thomas Brattle, put more stock into the confessions made during the trials. He said: Now, by these confessions, tis agreed that the Devil has made a dreadful know of witches in the country, and by the help of witches, has dreadfully increased that knot. That these witches have driven a trade of commissioning their confederate spirits to do all sorts of mischiefs to the neighbors, whereupon there have ensued such mischievous consequences upon the bodies of and estates of the neighborhood. Yea, that at prodigious witch meetings, 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 diabolism than ever the world saw before. Here Mather also discussed the conspiracy of destroying the Puritan church, a fear he had and a plot he expected the Devil to attempt against God. -Wonders of the Invisible World by Rev. Cotton Mather
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