Increase Mather Quotes

Increase Mather was a powerful Puritan clergyman in the Massachusetts Bay Colony and was president of Harvard College for twenty years . He was influential in the administration of the colony during a time that coincided with the notorious Salem witch trials.



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✵ 21. June 1639 – 23. August 1723
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Increase Mather Quotes

“Drink is in itself a good creature of God, but the abuse of drink is from Satan.”

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As quoted in The Truth About Alcohol (2005) by Barry Youngerman and Mark J. Kittleson, p. 129.

“It were better that Ten Suspected Witches should escape, than that one Innocent Person should be Condemned.”

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Cases of Conscience Concerning Evil Spirits Personating Men, Witchcrafts, infallible Proofs of Guilt in such as are accused with that Crime (1692); a variant of this has become known as Blackstone's formulation, through its expression by William Blackstone in Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765 - 1769).

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