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- Robert_Calef abstract "Robert Calef (c. 1648–1719 Roxbury, Massachusetts) was a Boston, Massachusetts Baptist cloth merchant who came to America before 1688. He was the author of More Wonders of the Invisible World, a book composed throughout the mid-1690s denouncing the recent Salem witch trials of 1692 and particularly examining the influential role played by Rev. Cotton Mather, and summarized below.The Preface lays out Calef's argument that Christians should rely on scripture, not superstition or mythology. Calef objected to proceedings that lead to "a Biggotted Zeal, stirring up a Blind and most Bloody rage, not against Enemies, or Irreligious Proffligate Persons, But (in Judgment of Charity, and to view) against as Vertuous and Religious as any they have left behind them in this Country, which have suffered as Evil doers with the utmost extent of rigour."Part 1 Cotton Mather's published account of his visit to Margaret Rule in 1693.Part 2 Calef's eyewitness account of Mather's visit to Margaret Rule in 1693, as sent in a letter to Cotton Mather, seeking comment, as well as numerous subsequent letters to Mather and attempts to get him to respond in writing to theological questions. Once, Mather sends a messenger to Calef to read a letter aloud and on another occasion Mather sends Calef a letter but says it must be returned in a fortnight and "which he forbad to be Copyed." Mather disagrees with Calef about whether or not he rubbed Maraget Rule's stomach, how she was covered, and whether his father, Increase Mather, prayed for up to thirty minutes or merely fifteen.Part 3 A compilation and reprinting of the sad letters between Parris and his congregation following the Witch trials 1693-1695, especially the relatives and survivors of those who were tried and executed. Parris apologizes but is dismissed from his position.Part 4 Correspondence with an anonymous gentleman "endevouring to prove the received opinions about Witchcraft."Part 5 Accounts of trials at Salem in 1692, mostly from court documents including petitions from the accused and letters to the ministers and the judges, followed by a later apology, in 1696, from one of the judges saying "he was apprehensive that he might have fallen into some Errors in the Matters at Salem" and also quoting a letter signed by 12 members of the jury at Salem, "We do heartily ask forgiveness of you all... and do declare according to our present minds, we would none of us do such things again on such grounds for the whole World..." Finally, in stark contrast, "The Preface of Mr. C.M. in Wonders of the Invisible World to his Account of the Tryals of five of those that were executed at Salem [and] The whole of his said Account..." Thus Calef's book both begins and ends with Cotton Mather in his own words.Conclusion "A Postscript relating to a Book Intituled, "The Life of Sir. W. Phips..." Calef correctly outed Cotton Mather as the anonymous author of the biography of Phips.Because of the powerful influence of the Mathers, Boston publishers declined to publish the book, and it was first printed in England in 1700. Rev. Increase Mather, father of Cotton, publicly burned the book in Harvard Yard.In 1701, Mather responded with Some Few Remarks upon a Scandalous Book written in the plural with co-signers, but occasionally lapsing into first person. The opening lines suggest that Calef's book had been well received by the masses in New England, despite his inability to have it published there: "...that Scandalous Book... has made our worthy Pastors Obnoxious...among an unguided multitude." Mather does not directly dispute the particulars of Calef's book but cries injured, accuses Calef of being a follower of Satan, and selects quotes from the Bible intended to put the merchant Calef in his place: "Exodus 22:28 Thou Shalt Not Speak Evil of the Ruler of Thy People."Cotton Mather was subsequently denied Presidency of Harvard College (ref? his journals)From 1702 to 1704 Calef was an overseer of the poor. In 1707 he was chosen an assessor, and in 1710 a tithingman. He retired to Roxbury, where in 1707 he had bought a place and where he was a selectman of the town, in which he died in 1719.".
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