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Increase Mather
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144px|thumb|right|It were better that Ten Suspected Witches should escape, than that one Innocent Person should be Condemned.
Increase Mather (21 June 1639 – 23 August 1723) was a religious leader and educator in colonial New England.
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It were better that Ten Suspected Witches should escape, than that one Innocent Person should be Condemned.
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).
Drink is in itself a good creature of God, but the abuse of drink is from Satan.
As quoted in The Truth About Alcohol (2005) by Barry Youngerman and Mark J. Kittleson, p. 129.
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Category:Theologians from Boston
Category:Puritans
Category:1639 births
Category:1723 deaths