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"the promise of old made unto our blessed Jesus" -> shows Puritans long 'relationship' with God and Jesus, affirms that they are the good guys - he basically says that the devil suspects that they are essentially the people coming to the promised land and because of that the devil is trying to try "all sorts of methods to overturn this poor plantation: and so much of the church". Cotton Mather begins by establishing the role of the Puritans - "The New Englanders are a people of God settled in those, which were once the devil's territories".

BODY PARAGRAPH 1: Talk about the text's opening. Cotton Mather opens The Wonders of the Invisible World by putting the New Englanders on a pedestal and he immediately asserts his suspicions regarding the satanical forces that surround the New World, a tactic that pushes the reader to view the situation from his biased perspective, making his claims seem more well-founded. This matter-of-fact tone, combined with the fact that Mather is able to draw upon the intended audience's emotions and ideas, would have easily convinced the case's Puritan readers of the witches' guilt. In Cotton Mather's The Wonders of the Invisible World, a description of the case against the accused witches in Salem, Mather makes clear accusations and detailed lists as to why the suspected witches were convicted. Some authors choose to remain ambiguous in their writing, and allow each reader to interpret their words differently. ANSWER THIS QUESTION: What makes Mather's claims about the Devil and possessed witches plotting the destruction of Christians in New England so believable? INTRODUCTION: State the thesis.