On Witchcraft Quotes

“That there is a Devil, is a thing doubted by none but such as are under the influences of the Devil.”
― Cotton Mather, On Witchcraft

“Have not many of us been Devils one unto another for Slanderings, for Backbitings, for Animosities? For this, among other causes, perhaps, God has permitted the Devils to be worrying, as they now are, among us. But it is high time to leave off all Devilism, when the Devil himself is falling upon us: And it is no time for us to be Censuring and Reviling one another, with a Devilish wrath, when the wrath of the Devil is annoying of us.”
― Cotton Mather, On Witchcraft

“Since the Devil is come down in great wrath upon us, let not us in our great wrath against one another provide a Lodging for him.”
― Cotton Mather, On Witchcraft

“yea that we never assemble without a Satan among us. As there are some Divines, who do with more uncertainty conjecture, from a certain place in the Epistle to the Ephesians, That the Angels do sometimes come into our Churches, to gain some advantage from our Ministry. But be sure our Demonstrable Interpretations may give Repeated Notices to the Devil, That his time is almost out; and what the Preacher says unto the Young Man, Know thou, that god will bring thee into Judgment! THAT may our Sermons tell unto the Old Wretch, Know thou, that thy Judgment is at hand.”
― Cotton Mather, On Witchcraft