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Author Mather, Increase, 1639-1723.
Title Cases of conscience concerning evil spirits : personating men, witchcrafts, infallible proofs of guilt in such as are accused with that crime. All considered according to the scriptures, history, experience, and the judgment of many learned men / by Increase Mather, president of Harvard College at Cambridge, and teacher of a church at Boston in New-England.
Running Title Cases of conscience concerning witchcraft
Publication Info Boston : Printed and sold by Benjamin Harris at the London Coffee-House, 1693.



Descript [6], 67, [7] p. : port.
Note "Christian reader" (A2r-A3v), signed by William Hubbard and 13 others, was written by Samuel Willard, one of the signatories. "The return of several ministers consulted by His Excellency" (G4) was written by Cotton Mather. Cf. Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.
Imperfect: some pages have faded print with some loss of text.
Reproduction of original in: Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.
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Author Mather, Increase, 1639-1723.
Series Early English books online.
Subject Witchcraft -- New England -- Early works to 1800.
Conscience, Examination of -- Early works to 1800.
Massachusetts -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Early works to 1800.
Alt author Willard, Samuel, 1640-1707. Christian reader.
Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728. Return of several ministers consulted by His Excellency.
Running Title Cases of conscience concerning witchcraft
Descript [6], 67, [7] p. : port.
Note "Christian reader" (A2r-A3v), signed by William Hubbard and 13 others, was written by Samuel Willard, one of the signatories. "The return of several ministers consulted by His Excellency" (G4) was written by Cotton Mather. Cf. Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.
Imperfect: some pages have faded print with some loss of text.
Reproduction of original in: Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.
Author Mather, Increase, 1639-1723.
Series Early English books online.
Subject Witchcraft -- New England -- Early works to 1800.
Conscience, Examination of -- Early works to 1800.
Massachusetts -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Early works to 1800.
Alt author Willard, Samuel, 1640-1707. Christian reader.
Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728. Return of several ministers consulted by His Excellency.
Running Title Cases of conscience concerning witchcraft

Subject Witchcraft -- New England -- Early works to 1800.
Conscience, Examination of -- Early works to 1800.
Massachusetts -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Early works to 1800.
Descript [6], 67, [7] p. : port.
Note "Christian reader" (A2r-A3v), signed by William Hubbard and 13 others, was written by Samuel Willard, one of the signatories. "The return of several ministers consulted by His Excellency" (G4) was written by Cotton Mather. Cf. Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.
Imperfect: some pages have faded print with some loss of text.
Reproduction of original in: Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.
Alt author Willard, Samuel, 1640-1707. Christian reader.
Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728. Return of several ministers consulted by His Excellency.

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