Unit 2: Vocabulary from Readings 1

They belong to him; he has their souls in his possession, and under his dominion.

“The corruption of the heart of man is immoderate and boundless in its fury; and while wicked men live here, it is like fire pent up by God's restraints, whereas if it were let loose, it would set on fire the course of nature; as the heart is now a sink of sin, so, if sin was not restrained, it would immediately turn the soul into a fiery oven, or furnace of fire and brimstone.”

“The corruption of the heart of man is immoderate and boundless in its fury; and while wicked men live here, it is like fire pent up by God's restraints, whereas if it were let loose, it would set on fire the course of nature; as the heart is now a sink of sin, so, if sin was not restrained, it would immediately turn the soul into a fiery oven, or furnace of fire and brimstone.”

...His anger is as great towards them as those that are actually suffering the execution of the fierceness of His wrath in hell; and they have done nothing in the least to appease or abate that anger, neither is God in the least bound by any promise to hold them up for one moment.

...His anger is as great towards them as those that are actually suffering the execution of the fierceness of His wrath in hell; and they have done nothing in the least to appease or abate that anger, neither is God in the least bound by any promise to hold them up for one moment.

Martha Carrier was indicted for bewitching certain persons, according to the form usual in such cases, pleading not guilty to her indictment.

There were first brought in a considerable number of the bewitched persons, who not only made the Court sensible of any horrid witchcraft committed upon them, but also deposed that it was Martha Carrier, or her shape, that grievously tormented them by biting, pricking, pinching, and choking of them.

It was further deposed that while this Carrier was on her examination before the Magistrates, the poor people were so tortured that every one expected their death upon the very spot, but that upon the binding of Carrier they were eased.

Moreover, the look of Carrier then laid the afflicted people for dead, and her touch, if her eye at the same time were off them, raised them again: which things were also now seen upon her trial.

It bred into a sore, which was lanced by Doctor Prescot, and several gallons of corruption ran out of it.

It bred into a sore, which was lanced by Doctor Prescot, and several gallons of corruption ran out of it.

Sarah Abbot, his wife, also testified that her husband was not only all this while afflicted in his body, but also that strange, extraordinary, and unaccountable calamities befell his cattle, their death being such as they could guess at no natural reason for.

Just afore the apprehending of Carrier, he could thrust a knitting needle into his wound, four inches deep; but presently, after her being seized, he was thoroughly healed.

He further testified that when Carrier and he sometimes were at variance, she would clap her hands at him, and say he should get nothing by it; whereupon he several times lost his cattle by strange deaths, whereof no natural causes could be given.

“I am afraid that ages will not wear off that reproach and those stains which these things will leave behind upon our land.”

Modern witch hunts include the roundup of Japanese-Americans during World War II, the pursuit of Communists in the ’50s and, according to an increasing number of critics, some of today’s outbreaks of community hysteria over purported sex abuse in preschools.

Often their distress was traced to local women who, it was said, had entered into a compact with the Devil and were now recruiting new witches by tormenting the innocent until they succumbed.

Life could be dreary for girls in 17th century Salem: their place was home and their duty was obedience; many were illiterate, and there were few outlets for youthful imagination except in the grim lessons of Puritan theology.

I speak as briefly as possible because too much harm has already been done with irresponsible words of bitterness and selfish political opportunism.

The United States Senate has long enjoyed worldwide respect as the greatest deliberative body in the world.