Chapter 1757 Queen of Hell (twenty-eight)

"The Gospel of Luke" Chapter 10, Verse 2, writes: The seventy disciples were sent out as "workers of the harvest, not as masters of the harvest." They were sent out to announce that "the kingdom of heaven is approaching."

Although there are few pedestrians on the rugged roads, there is one type of practitioner who still drives a carriage and roams in the wilderness, and that is the missionary.

Not only Puritans, Quakers, and Anglican priests were active in this virgin land, but not all of them came to preach.

Some people simply used their status as priests to engage in the fur trade, while others were not priests at all and could sell some things to country people who had no contact with outsiders.

No one is buying indulgences anymore, but there are still people buying scriptures that can exorcise demons and holy water that can cure all diseases. Incris Mather is selling charters. There are still people buying this thing at first, but later he bought it.

There are fewer and fewer people, and buyers are not blind. Look at the current situation in Massachusetts.

As parishes and families fell into chaos and people fled, churches began to become empty, and more and more people outside the church questioned the trial. Although they also hope that the wizards can be eliminated as soon as possible, those manic people are distorting the truth

their innocent friends and neighbors.

They knew the people who were accused, because it was the countryside and people in the city didn't know each other. Maybe they just became acquainted, and the person next door moved away for some reason, and then a stranger came in.

Maybe there will come a day when a female police officer who is exhausted due to extreme work pressure goes home tired from her duties, then opens the door of the apartment where she lives, only to find a stranger sitting on the sofa.

Smirking while eating ice cream, she took out her pistol without hesitation and shot the intruder to death.

When she came to her senses even in a trance, she found that she should live on the fifth floor instead of the sixth floor. In other words, she mistakenly mistook someone else's apartment for her own. She broke into someone else's home and took the owner of the house.

Killed.

If the court does not think about changing the way the trial is conducted, the trouble will continue to increase. When the judges let the children accuse people with innocent reputations, have they considered that it is not the defendants who are affected by the devil, but whether the girls who were victimized are themselves

Messenger of the devil?

Some of these women were in their late 80s, some were pregnant, and others were raising nine-week-old babies. There was a Chelmsford father who was left alone after his daughter was captured and his son-in-law escaped.

To raise his two-year-old and five-year-old grandsons, he himself lacks food and clothing.

A young man from Ipswich dropped the charges against Elizabeth Proctor in May. This risky and radical approach has won the support of many people. In order to save his miserable relatives and wives, a man from Ipswich

The people of Switch and Reading joined the protest. After all, it was the husbands who shared the bed with them. They knew where the marks on their bodies came from and whether they were left by the devil or a wizard.

In the ears of those husbands, they heard another version of the story. These prisoners did not sign the contract, did not attend the demonic meeting, and did not succumb to demonic baptism, but they were frightened out of their wits.

The old and frail "witches" not only had no one to take care of them, but also had to be imprisoned for a long time in a smelly prison. Finally, some of them surrendered. They confessed under coercion. The prisoners cried bitterly because they had implicated others.

, past friends and interrogators also attacked them.

The protesters gathered together were discussing, did the new governor really want to protect the innocent people of the king? It is better to say that he wanted to defend his unstable political status. The relationship between the colonies and the United Kingdom was like

Elephants breed almost every two years.

Couldn't the Governor see that? The girls who claimed to have been tortured were all radiant and healthy, but the prisoners were all reduced to adults. It was said that there was a healing magician who could remove the blood from a person's body through a beating.

The devil has been found out, why not give those girls such a "treatment"?

Phipps and the Council had decided to observe Thursday, February 23, as a day of thanksgiving throughout the colonies, hoping that by celebrating something joyful they would divert attention and direct the source of "all our misfortunes" toward the French.

But rather than caring about the governor's public affairs, the people were more concerned about when their wives could come home. There were also increasingly high taxes. The money was said to be used to pay the bills of hotel owners, police officers, prison guards and blacksmiths. Why?

Are they going to pay the people who torture their family and friends to make their lives comfortable?

What's more, they heard that the judge connived with the law enforcement officials to illegally seize the inheritance, and that King Burroughs and Queen Martha Carrier, who were promised by the devil, were executed. Logically speaking, shouldn't it be time to return to normal? Why are they still being arrested?

Various rumors and doubts forced Governor Phipps to dissolve the court in mid-September, or to make others think that he had dissolved the court.

Regardless of the future fate of the witchcraft court, social order must not be endangered, let alone the sale of charters. In that dark and mysterious season, no matter how people made accusations at will, one thing never appeared, and that was the son.

accuse the father.

At that time, sons could not use "Daddy" when calling their father, but had to use "Mr."

differences.

Regardless, the publication ban remained in the hands of the authorities. The Golden Age of Witchcraft gave rise to witchcraft literature. Inklis wrote "A Case of Conscience" which dealt with abstract matters and defended the innocent. Cotton Mather

The Miracles of the Invisible World he wrote showed that he was intoxicated with supernatural affairs, and the sales volume of the latter far exceeded that of the former.

While Cotton Mather continued to search villages and towns for evidence of witchcraft on horseback, Incris Mather set out on the road of investigation in a rumbling carriage.

People caught up in witch-hunting fanaticism are like a fire that will burn everything. This furious and wanton state must be curbed, and this is why the publishing ban prohibits the printing of non-Mather and Son publications.

The new Massachusetts government was brought about by Incris Mather. The judges would turn to him when they needed help. Cotton Mather was more active on the scene. The demonic baptism in Andover was very similar to the Baptist Church.

At the ceremony, will a Baptist minister preach about the equality of all people?

People are not born equal, nor will they die that way, so why do we pretend to be equal while we are alive?

Maybe some people will shout, shut up, shut up, go away, Satan, you are a liar who tells lies, and God will show up one day.

Here’s a new question: Father, tell me, do we got what we deserve? (do we got what we deserve?)

On the road you may meet a sweet-voiced, tireless preacher who will tell you something, but he will not promise you a country because he has become more cunning.

Don’t forget, the snake in the Garden of Eden also used its sweet voice to tempt Eve.

The full text of that chapter is that Jesus selected seventy disciples, and he sent them out like lambs among wolves, asking them not to bring purses, bags, shoes, and not to talk to anyone on the road, no matter what.

When you enter a house, you must first say: May peace be with this house. If there is a son of peace there, your peace will be upon him.

If anyone accepts you, eat whatever is set aside for you; heal the sick in the city and say to them, “The kingdom of God is at hand.”

Probably except for courts or church pulpits, those "respectable people" would interact with peasants and beggars whose intelligence and education were lower than theirs. In fact, they had been with those people when they were young, and those peasants knew and accepted them.

will hand over power to them.

There is no shortage of people who want to be leaders in this world. Who will be after Governor Phipps steps down? Stoughton or Andros?

But no matter who sits in that position, the first thing is to liquidate all the crimes in the Witchcraft Court. This sign has already appeared. The husbands who want to save their wives have united in protest. Phipps has no intention of disbanding the Witchcraft Court.

So easy, unless he passes a bill to remove all judges from responsibility.

This was something Phips couldn't do. His counselors were eager to see the priests to determine the direction of action. The priest's suggestion was to implement a colony-wide penitential fast, in which all work stopped and prayed to God to forgive his servants and the people.

mistake.

This means that we cannot just pardon judges, but also pardon false accusers, even if some of them did not accuse others in order to survive. Otherwise, if this bill cannot pass, why should we only pardon erring judges?

There was huge controversy over the vote on the bill, which split the colonial assembly in two. After a heated debate, the bill was passed by thirty-three to twenty-nine votes.

Samuel Sewell voted against it. He believed that the court should be dissolved immediately instead of handling the issue behind closed doors as everyone thought. Even without the immunity bill, Sewell, one of the judges, would have been punished for this.

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Everyone should get what they deserve.

Whether it is blessing or misfortune, God has his own arrangements.

Stoughton also voted against it, but he was not in favor of dissolving the court. This experienced politician was surrounded by many literary men. Cotton Mather encouraged everyone to continue, which was regarded as supporting the trial, and his father Inklis

Mather stood with the governor.

After the vote, Stoughton was unwilling to let his early efforts go to waste. He began traveling to Boston regularly to find out whether Phipps had changed his mind amid the overwhelming publicity.

On October 28, Stoughton went out from Dorchester in heavy rain. When he tried to take a shortcut, the embankment was flooded, so he had to turn around, causing him to miss the next day's vote.

, Phipps formally dissolved the hearing and sentencing court in his absence.

Maybe that flood was a "sign" and it was time for Stoughton to find another "calling."

Demons exist, and they sometimes disguise themselves as priests and roam the wilderness.

Be careful, passers-by, and don't talk to people easily, because you don't know who you are dealing with.

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