Through these books, scholars, interpreters, students, and non-academics alike can see the thoughts and beliefs of Americans who came before us.

This edition affirms Mather's importance to American thought as a deeply religious intellectual who introduced the Enlightenment to America.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1693 Edition.

The theologian's book, first published in 1692, provides readers with guidelines for discovering witches, explanations for how good Christians are tempted by the devil to become witches, and methods of resisting such temptation.

" One of the most famous of early New England documents regarding witchcraft, this book,, composed by Cotton and Increase Mather, transport the reader through the historic events in Salem-Village and the various witch trials, transcribed ...

This edition contains all of Mather's surviving verse written in English, including elegies, epitaphs, simple verse for children, and religious meditations. Introductory discussion of Puritan poetry.