That there is a Devil, is a thing doubted by none but such as are under the influences of the Devil.
Cotton MatherInstead of exhorting you to augment your charity, I will rather utter an exhortation, or at least a supplication, that you may not abuse your charity by misapplying it.
Cotton MatherWilderness is a temporary condition through which we are passing to the Promised Land.
Cotton Mather