Cases
of
Conscience
Concerning
Witchcrafts
.
THE
First
Case
that
I
am
desired
to
express
my
Judgment
in
,
is
this
,
Whether
it
is
not
Possible
for
the
Devil
to
impose
on
the
Imaginations
of
Persons
Bewitched
,
and
to
cause
them
to
Believe
that
an
Innocent
,
yea
that
a
Pious
person
do's
torment
them
,
when
the
Devil
himself
doth
it
,
or
whether
Satan
may
not
appear
in
the
Shape
of
an
Innocent
and
Pious
,
as
well
as
of
a
Nocent
and
Wicked
Person
to
Afflict
such
as
suffer
by
Diabolical
Molestations
?
The
Answer
to
the
Question
must
be
Affirmative
;
Let
the
following
Arguments
be
duely
weighed
in
the
Ballance
of
the
Sanctuary
.
Argu
.
1.
There
are
several
Scriptures
from
which
we
may
infer
the
Possibility
of
what
is
Affirmed
.
1.
We
find
that
the
Devil
by
the
Instigation
of
the
Witch
at
Endor
appeared
in
the
Likeness
of
the
Prophet
Samuel
.
I
am
not
Ignorant
that
some
have
asserted
that
,
which
,
if
it
were
proved
would
evert
this
Argument
,
Viz
.
that
it
was
the
true
and
not
a
delusive
Samuel
which
the
Witch
brought
to
converse
with
Saul
.
Of
this
Opinion
are
some
of
the
Jewish
Rabbies
〈…〉
●●actias
.
R.
Eleazer
Athias
.
Lyranus
,
Sic
et
Josephus
.
and
some
Christian
Doctors
〈…〉
,
Hierom
Basil
,
Nazianzen
.
and
many
late
Popish
Authors
Thomas
,
Tostatus
,
〈…〉
,
cajetan
.
amongst
whom
Cornel
.
a
Lapide
is
most
elaborate
.
But
that
it
was
a
Daemon
representing
Samuel
has
bin
evinced
by
Learned
and
Orthodox
Writers
:
especially
In
●o●●●●
▪
Peter
Martyr
,
In
2
Cor
.
11.
14.
Pag
.
555.
Bald●in●s
De
Spectris
.
Cap.
7.
Lavater
,
and
our
Incomparable
John
Rainolde
.
I
shall
not
here
insist
on
the
clearing
of
that
,
especially
considering
,
that
elsewhere
I
have
done
it
:
only
let
me
add
that
the
Witch
said
to
Saul
,
I
see
E●chim
,
i.e.
A
God
;
(
for
the
whole
Context
●●ows
;
that
a
single
Person
is
intended
)
Ascending
●●t
of
the
Earth
.
1
Sam
.
28.
13.
The
Devil
would
〈◇〉
Worshipped
as
a
God
,
and
Saul
now
,
that
he
〈◇〉
become
a
Necromancer
,
must
bow
himself
to
●●m
.
Moreover
,
had
it
bin
the
true
Samuel
from
(
d
)
In
Ecclesiast
.
Chap.
46.
22
,
23.
Heaven
reprehending
Saul
,
there
is
great
Reason
to
believe
that
he
would
not
only
have
reproved
him
for
his
sin
,
in
not
executing
Judgment
on
the
Amalekites
;
as
in
Ver
.
18.
But
for
his
wickedness
in
consulting
with
Familiar
Spirits
:
for
which
Sin
it
was
in
special
that
he
Dyed
.
2.
Chron
.
10.
13.
But
in
as
much
as
there
is
not
one
word
to
Testify
against
that
Abomination
,
we
may
conclude
that
it
was
not
Real
Samuel
that
appeared
to
Saul
.
And
if
it
were
the
Devil
in
his
likeness
the
Argument
seems
very
strong
,
that
if
the
Devil
,
may
appear
in
the
Form
of
a
Saint
in
Glory
,
much
more
is
it
possible
for
him
,
to
put
on
the
Likeness
,
of
the
most
Pious
and
innocent
Saint
on
Earth
.
There
are
,
who
acknowledge
that
a
Daemon
may
appear
in
the
Shape
of
a
Godly
Person
,
But
not
as
doing
Evil
.
Whereas
the
Devil
in
Samuels
likeness
told
a
Pernicious
Lye
,
when
he
said
Thou
hast
Disquieted
me
.
It
was
not
in
the
Power
of
Saul
,
nor
of
all
the
Devils
in
Hell
,
to
disquiet
a
Soul
in
Heaven
,
where
Samuel
had
been
for
Two
years
before
this
Apparition
.
Nor
did
the
Spectre
speak
true
,
when
he
said
,
Thou
and
thy
Sons
shall
be
with
me
;
tho'
Saul
himself
at
his
Death
went
to
be
with
the
Devil
,
his
Son
Jonathan
did
not
so
.
Besides
,
(
which
suits
with
the
matter
in
hand
)
the
Devil
in
Samuels
shape
confirmed
Necromancy
and
cursed
Witchery
.
He
that
can
in
the
likeness
of
Saints
encourage
Witches
to
Familiarity
with
Hell
,
may
possibly
in
the
Likeness
of
a
Saint
afflict
a
Bewitched
Person
.
But
this
we
see
from
Scripture
,
Satan
may
be
Permitted
to
do
.
And
whereas
it
is
objected
,
that
the
Devil
may
appear
indeed
in
the
Form
of
Dead
Persons
,
but
that
he
cannot
represent
such
as
are
living
;
The
Contrary
is
manifest
.
No
Question
had
Saul
said
to
the
Witch
,
bring
me
David
who
was
then
living
,
she
could
as
easily
have
shown
living
David
as
dead
Samuel
,
as
easily
as
that
great
Conjurer
,
of
whom
De
Praestigiis
Daemonum
.
Lib
.
1.
Cap.
16.
Wierus
speaks
,
brought
the
appearance
of
Hector
and
Achilles
and
after
that
of
David
before
the
Emperour
Maximilian
.
And
that
evil
Angels
have
sometimes
appeared
in
the
likeness
of
living
absent
persons
is
a
thing
abundantly
confirmed
by
History
.
De
C.
D.
●
.
1●
.
Austin
tells
us
of
one
that
went
for
Resolution
in
some
intricate
Questions
,
to
a
Philosopher
,
of
whom
he
could
get
no
Answer
;
but
in
the
night
the
Philosopher
comes
to
him
,
and
resolves
all
his
Doubts
.
Not
long
after
,
he
demanded
the
Reason
why
he
could
not
answer
him
in
the
day
as
well
as
in
the
night
;
The
Philosopher
professed
he
was
not
with
him
in
the
night
,
only
acknowledged
that
he
dreamed
of
his
having
such
Conversation
with
his
Friend
,
but
he
was
all
the
time
at
home
,
and
asleep
.
Paulus
and
Palladius
did
both
of
them
profess
to
Austin
,
that
one
in
his
Shape
,
had
divers
times
,
and
in
divers
places
appeared
to
them
D●
Appar
.
Spirit●●m
Lib
2
Cap.
7.
Thyreus
:
mentions
several
Apparitions
of
,
absent
living
persons
,
which
happened
in
his
time
.
and
which
he
had
the
certain
knowledg
of
.
A
Man
that
is
in
one
place
cannot
(
Autoprosopos
)
at
the
same
time
be
in
another
.
It
remains
then
that
such
spectres
are
Prodigious
&
Supernatural
,
&
not
without
Diabolical
Operation
.
It
has
been
Controverted
among
Learned
men
,
whether
innocent
persons
may
not
by
the
malice
and
deluding
Power
of
the
Devil
be
represented
as
present
amongst
witches
at
their
dark
Assemblies
.
The
mentioned
Thyreus
sayes
that
the
Devil
may
and
often
does
represent
the
Forms
of
innocent
persons
out
of
those
Conventions
,
and
that
there
is
no
Question
to
be
made
of
it
,
but
as
to
his
natural
Power
and
Art
he
is
able
to
make
their
shapes
appear
amongst
his
own
servants
,
but
he
supposeth
the
Providence
of
God
will
not
suffer
such
an
Injury
to
be
done
to
an
Innocent
Person
.
With
him
Disq
.
Magi●ar
:
Lib
.
2.
C.
12.
Detrio
,
and
Spineus
concur
.
But
Cumanus
in
his
Lucerna
Inquisitorum
(
a
Book
which
I
have
not
yet
seen
)
defends
the
Affirmative
in
this
Question
.
Bins
fieldius
in
his
Treatise
,
concerning
the
Confession
of
Witches
,
inclines
to
the
negative
,
only
De
confes
.
sag
.
pag
.
191.
he
acknowledes
Dei
extraordinaria
Permissione
Posse
Innocentes
sic
representari
.
And
he
that
shall
assert
,
that
the
great
and
Holy
God
never
did
nor
ever
will
permit
the
Devil
thus
far
to
abuse
an
Innocent
Person
,
affirms
more
than
he
is
able
to
prove
.
The
story
of
Germanus
his
discovering
a
Diabolical
illusion
of
this
nature
concerning
a
great
Number
of
Persons
that
seemed
to
be
at
a
feast
when
they
were
really
at
home
and
asleep
,
is
mentioned
by
many
Authors
.
But
the
Particulars
insisted
on
,
do
sufficiently
evince
the
truth
of
what
we
assert
,
viz
that
the
Devil
may
by
Divne
Permission
appear
in
the
shape
of
Innocent
and
Pious
Persons
.
Neverthelesse
,
it
is
evident
from
another
Scripture
,
viz
,
that
in
,
2
Cor
11.
14.
For
Satan
himself
is
transformed
into
an
Angel
of
Light
.
He
seems
to
be
what
he
is
not
,
and
makes
others
seem
to
be
what
they
are
not
.
He
represents
evil
men
as
good
,
&
good
men
as
evil
.
The
Angels
of
Heaven
(
who
are
the
Angels
of
Light
)
love
truth
and
Righteousness
,
the
Devil
will
seem
to
do
so
to
.
And
does
therefore
sometimes
lay
before
men
excellent
good
principles
and
exhort
them
(
as
he
did
Theodore
maill●t
)
to
practise
many
things
,
which
by
the
Law
of
Righteousness
they
are
obliged
unto
,
and
hereby
he
does
more
effectually
deceive
.
Is
it
not
strange
,
that
he
has
sometimes
intimated
to
his
most
devoted
servants
,
that
if
they
would
have
familiar
Conversation
with
him
,
they
must
be
careful
to
keep
themselves
from
enormous
Sins
,
and
pray
constantly
for
Divine
Protection
?
But
so
has
he
transfarmed
himself
into
an
Angel
of
Light
,
as
De
secretis
mag.
p.
31.
see
also
Lavater
de
Spect
.
Lib
.
2.
Ca
.
18.
Boissardus
sheweth
.
He
has
frequently
appeared
to
men
pretending
to
be
a
good
Angel
,
so
to
Anatolius
of
old
;
and
the
late
instances
of
Dr.
Casaubon
:
of
Spirits
.
Dr
Dee
&
Kellet
are
famously
known
.
How
many
deluded
Enthusiasts
both
in
former
and
latter
times
have
bin
imposed
on
by
Satans
appeaing
visibly
to
them
,
pretending
to
be
a
good
Angel
.
And
moreover
,
he
may
be
said
to
transform
himself
into
an
Angel
of
Light
because
of
his
appearing
in
the
Form
of
Holy
Men
who
are
the
Children
of
Light
,
yea
in
the
Shape
and
Habit
of
Eminent
Ministers
of
God
.
So
did
he
appear
to
Mr
Earl
of
Colchester
in
the
Likeness
of
Mr
Liddal
an
Holy
man
of
God
and
to
the
Turkish
Chaous
Baptized
at
London
Anno
1658
pretending
to
be
Mr
D●ry
an
excellent
Minister
of
Christ
.
And
how
often
has
he
pretended
to
be
the
Apostle
Paul
or
Peter
or
some
other
celebrated
Saint
?
Ecclesiastical
Histories
abound
with
Instances
of
this
nature
.
Yea
,
sometimes
he
has
transfigured
himself
into
the
Form
of
Christ
.
It
is
reported
that
he
appeared
to
Sulpitius
severus
in
vita
martini
.
St
Martin
Gloriously
arrayed
as
if
he
had
been
Christ
.
So
likewise
to
G●●ccius
compend
:
malefic
p.
342.
Secund●llus
,
and
to
another
Saint
,
who
suspecting
it
was
Satan
,
transforming
himself
into
an
Angel
of
Light
had
this
expression
,
If
I
may
see
Christ
in
Heaven
it
is
enough
,
I
desire
not
to
see
him
in
this
world
,
whereupon
the
spectre
vanished
.
It
has
been
related
of
Luther
,
that
after
he
had
been
Fasting
and
Praying
in
his
Study
,
the
Devil
comes
pretending
to
be
Christ
,
but
Luther
saying
,
away
thou
confounded
Devil
,
I
acknowledg
no
Christ
but
what
is
in
my
Bible
,
nothing
more
was
seen
.
Thus
then
the
Devil
is
able
(
by
Divine
Permission
)
to
Change
himself
into
what
Form
or
Figure
he
pleaseth
,
Omnia
transformat
sese
in
miracula
rerum
.
A
Third
Scripture
to
our
purpose
is
that
,
in
Re:
12
10
where
the
Devil
is
called
the
Accuser
of
the
Brethren
Such
is
the
malice
and
Impudence
of
the
Devil
,
as
that
he
does
accuse
good
men
and
that
before
God
,
and
that
not
only
of
such
Faults
as
they
really
are
guilty
of
,
he
accused
Joshua
with
his
filthy
garments
,
when
thro'
his
Indulgence
some
of
his
Family
had
transgressed
by
unlawful
marriages
.
Zac
:
3.
23.
with
Ezra
:
10.
18.
but
also
with
such
Crimes
,
as
they
are
altogether
free
from
.
He
represented
the
Primitive
Christians
as
the
vilest
of
men
,
and
as
if
at
their
meetings
they
did
commit
the
most
nefandous
Villanies
that
ever
were
known
.
And
that
not
only
innocent
but
eminently
Pious
persons
should
thro'
the
malice
of
the
Devil
be
accused
with
the
Crime
of
witchcraft
is
no
new
thing
.
Such
an
affliction
did
the
Lord
see
meet
to
exercise
the
great
Athanasius
with
Binsfield
de
Confess
.
Sag
.
p.
187.
only
the
Divine
Providene
did
wonderfully
vindicate
him
from
that
as
well
as
from
some
other
foul
Aspersions
.
The
Waldenses
(
altho
the
scriptures
call
them
Saints
,
Rev
:
13.
7.
)
have
been
traduced
by
Satan
and
by
the
world
as
Horrible
witches
.
So
have
others
in
other
places
,
only
because
they
have
done
extraordinary
things
by
their
prayers
.
It
is
by
many
Authors
related
that
a
City
in
France
was
molested
with
a
Diabolical
Spectre
,
which
the
People
were
wont
to
call
Hugon
.
Near
that
place
a
number
of
Protestants
were
wont
to
meet
to
serve
God
.
Whence
the
Professors
of
the
true
Reformed
Religion
were
nick-named
Hugonots
by
the
Papists
,
who
designed
to
render
them
before
the
world
as
the
servants
and
worshippers
of
that
Demon
,
that
went
under
the
name
of
Hugon
.
And
how
often
have
I
read
in
Books
written
by
Jesuits
,
that
Luther
was
a
Wizzard
,
&
that
he
did
himself
confess
that
he
had
Familiarity
with
Satan
!
Most
impudent
Untruths
!
nor
are
these
things
to
be
wondered
at
,
since
the
Holy
Son
of
God
himself
was
reputed
a
Magician
,
and
one
that
had
Familiarity
with
the
greatest
of
Devils
.
The
Blaspheming
Pharisees
said
,
He
casts
out
the
Devils
thro'
the
Prince
of
Devils
.
Math
.
9.
34.
There
i●
then
not
the
best
Saint
on
Earth
(
Man
or
Woman
)
that
can
assure
themselves
that
the
Devil
shall
not
cast
such
an
Imputation
upon
them
.
It
is
enough
for
the
Disciple
that
he
be
as
his
Master
,
and
the
Servant
as
his
Lord
:
If
they
have
called
the
Master
of
the
House
Beelzebub
,
how
much
more
them
of
His
Houshold
.
Math
.
10.
25.
It
is
not
for
men
to
determine
how
far
the
Holy
God
may
permit
the
wicked
one
to
proceed
in
his
Accusations
.
The
sacred
story
of
Job
.
giveth
us
to
understand
that
the
Lord
whose
wayes
are
past
finding
out
,
do's
for
Wise
and
Holy
Ends
suffer
Satan
,
by
immediate
Operation
,
(
and
consequently
by
Witchcraft
)
greatly
to
afflict
innocent
persons
,
as
in
their
Bodies
and
Estates
,
so
in
their
Reputations
.
I
shall
mention
but
one
Scripture
more
to
confirm
the
Truth
in
hand
.
It
is
that
in
,
Eccles
.
9.
2
,
3.
Where
it
is
said
,
All
things
come
alike
to
all
,
there
is
one
event
to
the
Righteous
and
to
the
Wicked
,
as
is
the
Good
,
so
is
the
finner
,
this
is
an
evil
amongst
all
things
under
the
Sun
that
there
is
one
Event
happeneth
to
all
.
And
in
Eccles
.
7.
15.
tis
said
,
There
is
a
just
man
that
perisheth
in
his
Righteousness
.
From
hence
we
inferr
that
there
is
no
outward
Affliction
whatsoever
but
may
befal
a
Good
Man
;
now
to
be
represented
by
Satan
as
a
Tormentor
of
Bewitched
or
Possessed
Persons
,
is
a
sore
affliction
to
a
Good
man
.
To
be
Tormented
by
Satan
is
a
sore
Affliction
,
yet
nothing
but
what
befel
Job
,
and
a
Daughter
of
Abraham
whom
we
read
of
in
the
Gospel
.
To
be
represented
by
Satan
,
as
tormenting
others
,
is
an
affliction
like
the
former
.
The
Lord
may
bring
such
extraordinary
Temptations
on
his
own
Children
,
to
Afflict
and
Humble
them
,
for
some
sin
they
have
been
guilty
of
before
him
.
A
most
wicked
Person
in
St.
Ives
,
got
a
Knife
,
and
went
with
it
to
a
Ministers
House
;
designing
to
stab
him
,
but
was
disappointed
.
Afterwards
Conscience
being
awakened
,
the
Devil
appears
to
this
Person
in
the
Shape
of
that
Minister
,
with
a
Knife
in
his
hand
exhorting
to
Self-murder
.
Was
not
here
a
punishment
suitable
to
the
sin
which
that
Person
had
been
Guilty
of
?
Perhaps
some
of
those
,
whom
Satan
has
represented
as
committing
Witchcrafts
,
have
been
tampering
with
some
foolish
and
Wicked
Sorceries
,
tho'
not
to
that
degree
,
which
is
Criminal
and
Capital
by
the
Laws
both
of
God
,
and
Men
;
for
this
Satan
may
be
permitted
so
to
scourge
them
.
Or
,
it
may
be
they
have
misrepresented
&
abused
others
,
for
which
cause
the
Holy
God
may
justly
give
Satan
leave
,
falsely
to
represent
them
.
Have
we
not
known
some
that
have
bitterly
censured
all
that
have
bin
complained
of
by
bewitched
Persons
,
saying
it
was
impossible
they
should
not
be
Guilty
,
soon
upon
which
themselves
or
some
near
Relations
of
theirs
,
have
to
the
lasting
Infamy
of
their
Families
been
accused
after
the
same
Manner
,
and
personated
by
the
Devil
?
such
tremendous
rebukes
on
a
few
,
should
make
all
men
to
be
careful
how
they
joyn
with
Satan
in
Condemning
the
Innocent
.
Arg
:
2.
Because
it
is
possible
for
the
Devil
in
the
Shape
of
an
innocent
person
to
do
other
mischiefs
.
As
for
those
who
acknowledge
that
Satan
may
personate
a
Pious
Person
,
but
not
to
do
mischief
,
their
opinion
has
been
confuted
by
more
than
a
few
unhappy
instances
.
Mr
Clark
Examples
vol.
1.
p.
510.
speaks
of
a
man
that
had
been
an
Atheist
,
or
a
Sadduce
,
not
believing
that
there
are
any
Devils
or
any
(
to
us
)
invisible
world
,
This
man
was
converted
,
but
as
a
Punishment
of
his
Infidelity
,
evil
Angels
did
often
appear
to
him
in
the
Shape
of
his
most
intimate
Freinds
,
and
would
sometimes
seduce
him
into
great
inconveniences
.
It
has
bin
else
where
and
but
now
noted
that
a
Daemon
in
the
Shape
of
excellent
Mr.
Dury
appeared
to
the
Turkish
Chaous
Ann.
1658
to
disswade
him
from
prosecuting
his
desires
of
Baptism
into
the
name
of
Christ
;
Also
to
Mr.
Earle
in
the
likeness
of
his
Freinds
,
to
discourage
him
from
doing
things
lawful
and
good
.
〈◇〉
multitude
of
Jews
were
once
deluded
by
a
person
pretending
to
be
Moses
from
Heaven
,
and
that
if
they
would
follow
him
they
should
pass
safe
through
the
Sea
(
as
did
their
Fathers
of
old
thro'
the
red
sea
)
whereby
great
numbers
of
them
were
deceived
and
perished
in
the
waters
.
Socrates
Hist
P
,
7.
C.
38.
Learned
and
Judicious
men
have
concluded
that
this
Moses
Creensis
,
was
a
Demon
,
transforming
himself
into
Moses
.
And
that
the
Devil
has
frequently
appeared
Lege
Vill●lpond
de
Magia
&c.
L.
2.
Cap.
27
▪
in
the
shape
of
famous
Persons
to
the
end
that
he
might
seduce
men
into
Idolatry
a
sin
equal
to
to
that
of
witchcraft
)
no
man
that
has
made
it
his
concern
to
enquire
into
things
of
this
nature
can
be
ignorant
.
Many
Examples
of
this
kind
are
collected
by
Mr.
Bromhall
in
his
Treatise
of
Spectres
,
and
the
cunning
Devil
,
to
strengthen
men
in
their
worshipping
of
Saints
departed
:
And
by
Mr
Bovet
in
his
Pandemonium
.
It
is
credibly
reported
that
the
Devil
in
the
likeness
of
a
faithful
Minister
(
at
St
Ives
before
mentioned
near
Boston
in
Lincolnshire
)
came
to
one
that
was
in
trouble
of
mind
,
telling
her
the
longer
she
lived
,
the
worse
It
would
be
for
her
,
&
therefore
advising
her
to
self-murder
.
An
eminent
Person
still
living
had
the
account
of
this
matter
from
Mr.
Cotton
(
the
famous
Teacher
of
both
Bostons
)
.
He
was
well
acquainted
with
that
Minister
,
who
related
to
him
the
whole
Story
with
all
the
Circumstances
of
it
.
For
Mr.
Cotton
was
so
affected
with
the
Report
,
as
to
take
a
Journey
on
purpose
to
the
Town
where
this
happened
,
that
so
he
might
obtain
a
saisfactory
Account
about
it
,
which
he
did
.
Some
Authors
say
that
a
Demon
appeared
in
the
Form
of
Sylvanus
(
Hierom's
Friend
)
attempting
a
dishonest
thing
,
the
Devil
thereby
designing
to
blast
the
Reputation
of
a
famous
Bishop
.
I
have
in
another
Book
mentioned
that
celebrated
Instance
concerning
an
honest
Citizen
in
Zurick
(
the
Metropolis
of
Heluetia
)
in
whose
Shape
the
Devil
appeared
committing
an
abominable
Fact
(
not
fit
to
be
named
)
very
early
in
the
morning
,
seen
by
the
Prefect
of
the
City
,
and
his
Servant
.
They
were
amazed
to
Behold
a
man
of
good
Esteem
for
his
conversation
,
perpetrating
a
thing
so
vile
and
abominable
:
but
going
from
the
Spectre
in
the
Field
,
to
the
Citizens
House
in
the
Town
,
they
found
him
at
home
,
&
in
his
bed
,
nor
had
he
been
abroad
that
morning
,
which
convinced
them
that
what
they
saw
was
an
Illusion
of
the
Devil
.
This
Passage
is
mentioned
as
a
thing
known
and
certain
by
Lavater
in
his
Treatise
of
Spectres
,
Part
1.
Chap.
19.
Pag
.
86.
who
was
a
most
learned
and
judicious
Preacher
in
that
City
.
Our
Juel
saith
of
him
that
he
must
ingeniously
confess
,
that
he
never
understood
Solomons
Proverbes
,
until
Lavater
expounded
them
to
him
.
That
Book
of
his
De
Spectris
hath
been
published
in
Latin
,
high
and
low
Dutch
French
,
Italan
.
The
Leaned
Zanchy
Epistol
.
2.
speaks
highly
of
it
,
professing
that
he
had
read
it
both
with
Pleasure
and
Profit
.
Voetius
In
Disput
:
de
Magia
.
P.
575.
takes
notice
of
that
Passage
which
we
have
quoted
out
of
Levater
as
a
thing
Memorable
.
Some
Popish
Authors
argue
,
that
that
Devil
cannot
personate
an
innocent
man
as
doing
an
Act
of
witchcraft
,
because
then
he
might
as
well
represent
them
as
commiting
Theft
,
murder
&c.
And
if
so
,
there
would
be
no
Living
in
the
world
.
But
I
turn
the
Argument
against
them
,
He
may
(
as
the
mentioned
Instances
prove
)
personate
honest
men
as
doing
other
Evils
.
And
no
solid
Reason
can
be
given
why
he
may
not
as
well
personate
them
under
the
notion
of
witches
as
under
the
notion
of
Thieves
,
Murders
and
Idolators
.
As
for
the
Objection
,
that
then
there
would
be
no
living
in
the
world
,
we
shall
consider
it
under
the
next
Argument
.
Arg
:
3.
If
Satan
may
not
represent
one
that
is
not
a
covenant
servant
of
his
as
afflicting
those
that
are
bewitched
or
possessed
,
then
it
is
either
because
he
wants
Will
,
or
Power
to
do
this
,
or
because
God
w●ll
never
permit
him
thus
to
do
.
No
man
but
a
Sadduce
doubts
of
the
ill
will
of
Devils
.
Nothing
is
more
pleasing
to
the
Malice
of
those
wicked
Spirits
than
to
see
Innocency
wronged
.
And
the
Power
of
the
Enemy
is
such
as
that
having
once
obtained
a
Divine
Concession
to
use
his
Art
,
he
can
do
this
and
much
more
then
this
amounts
unto
.
We
know
by
Scripture
—
Revelation
that
the
Sorcerers
of
Aegypt
caused
many
untrue
and
delusive
In
Mr.
Coupers
Mystery
of
Witchcraft
.
Pag
.
174
,
175.
Representations
before
Pharaoh
and
his
Servants
.
Exod
.
7.
11
,
22
&
8.
7.
And
we
read
of
the
working
of
Satan
in
all
Power
and
Signs
,
and
lying
wonders
.
2.
Thes
.
2.
9.
His
heart
is
beyond
what
the
wisest
of
men
may
pretend
unto
.
He
has
perfect
skill
in
Opticks
,
and
can
therefore
cause
that
to
be
visible
to
one
,
which
is
not
so
to
another
;
and
things
also
to
appear
far
otherwise
then
they
are
.
He
has
likewise
the
Art
of
Limning
in
the
Perfection
of
it
,
and
knows
what
may
be
done
by
Colours
.
It
is
an
odd
Passage
6.
Acta
Eruditorum
Anno
,
1690.
Pag
.
113.
which
I
find
in
the
Acta
Eruditorum
Printed
at
Lipsick
,
that
about
32
years
ago
an
indigent
Merchant
in
France
was
instructed
by
a
Daemon
that
with
water
of
Borax
he
might
colour
Taffities
,
so
as
to
cause
them
to
glister
and
look
very
gay
.
He
searcheth
into
the
Nature
,
Causes
,
and
Reasons
of
things
,
whereby
he
is
able
to
produce
wonderful
effects
.
So
that
if
he
does
not
form
the
Shape
of
an
innocent
person
as
afflicting
others
,
it
is
not
from
want
of
either
will
or
power
.
They
that
affirm
that
God
never
did
nor
ever
will
permit
him
thus
to
do
,
alledge
that
it
is
inconsistant
with
the
Righteousness
and
Providence
of
God
in
Governing
Humane
Affairs
thus
to
suffer
men
to
be
imposed
on
.
It
must
be
acknowledged
In
Mr.
Glanvils
Philosophical
Considerations
.
that
the
Divine
Providence
has
taken
care
that
the
greatest
part
of
mankind
shall
not
be
left
to
unavoidable
Deception
,
so
as
to
be
always
abused
by
the
nischievous
Agents
of
Hell
,
in
the
objects
of
plain
sence
.
But
yet
it
is
not
for
sinful
and
silly
Mortals
to
prescribe
Rules
to
the
Most
High
in
his
Government
of
the
world
,
or
to
direct
him
how
far
he
may
permit
Satan
to
use
his
power
:
I
am
apt
to
think
that
th●●e
are
some
amongst
us
,
who
if
they
had
lived
in
Job's
days
,
and
seen
the
Devil
tormenting
of
him
,
and
heard
him
complaining
of
being
scar'd
with
Dreams
and
terrified
with
Night-visio●s
,
they
would
have
joined
with
hi●●ncharitable
Friends
in
Censuring
him
as
a
most
guilty
person
.
But
we
should
consider
that
the
Most
High
God
doth
sometimes
deal
with
men
in
a
way
of
Absolute
Soveraignty
,
performing
the
thing
which
is
appointed
for
them
,
and
many
such
things
are
with
him
.
If
he
does
destroy
the
perfect
with
the
wicked
,
and
Laugh
at
the
Trial
of
the
innocent
(
Job
9.
22
,
23.
)
who
shall
enter
into
His
Counsels
!
who
has
given
Him
a
Charge
over
the
Earth
!
or
who
has
disposed
the
●●●●e
world
!
men
are
not
able
to
give
an
Account
〈…〉
ordinary
works
,
much
less
of
his
secret
Coun●●●●
▪
and
the
Dark
Dispensations
of
his
Providence
.
〈…〉
do
but
darken
counsel
by
words
without
knowledge
when
they
undertake
it
.
If
we
are
not
●ble
to
see
how
this
or
that
can
stand
with
the
Righteousness
of
him
that
Governs
the
world
,
shall
we
say
that
the
Almighty
will
pervert
Judgment
?
or
that
he
that
Governs
the
Earth
hateth
Right
?
shall
we
condemn
him
that
is
most
just
?
But
whereas
't
is
objected
where
is
Providence
?
and
how
shall
men
live
on
the
Earth
,
If
the
Devil
may
be
pe●mitted
to
use
such
power
?
I
demand
,
where
〈◇〉
Providence
,
when
Satan
had
Power
to
cause
〈◇〉
of
Belial
to
lye
and
swear
away
the
life
of
inno●●●●
Naboth
,
laying
such
Crimes
to
his
Charge
as
he
〈…〉
never
guilty
of
?
And
what
an
hour
of
Dark●●●●
was
it
?
How
far
was
the
power
of
Hell
permit●●●
to
prevail
,
when
Christ
the
Son
of
God
was
Accused
,
Condemned
,
and
Hanged
for
a
Crime
that
●e
never
was
guilty
of
?
That
was
the
strangest
Provi
,
dence
that
has
happened
since
the
world
began
,
and
yet
in
the
Issue
the
most
glorious
.
We
must
therefore
distinguish
between
what
does
ordinarily
come
to
pass
by
the
Providence
of
God
,
and
things
which
are
extraordinary
.
It
is
not
an
usual
thing
for
a
Naboth
to
have
his
life
taken
from
him
by
false
Accusations
,
or
for
an
Athanasius
or
a
Susanna
to
be
Charged
,
and
perhaps
brought
before
Courts
of
Judicature
for
Crimes
of
which
they
were
altogether
Innocent
.
But
if
we
therefore
conclude
that
such
a
thing
as
this
can
never
happen
in
the
World
,
we
shall
offend
against
the
Generation
of
the
just
.
It
it
not
ordinary
for
Devils
to
be
permitted
to
reveal
the
secret
sins
of
men
;
yet
this
has
been
done
more
than
once
or
twice
.
Nor
is
it
ordinary
for
Daemons
to
Steal
Money
out
of
Mens
Pockets
,
and
Purses
,
or
Wine
and
Cyder
out
of
their
Cellars
.
Yet
some
such
Instances
have
there
been
amongst
ourselves
.
It
is
not
usual
for
Providence
to
permit
the
Devil
to
come
from
Hell
and
to
throw
Fire
on
the
Tops
of
Houses
,
and
to
cause
a
whole
Town
to
be
burnt
to
Ashes
thereby
.
There
would
(
it
must
be
confessed
)
be
no
living
in
the
world
if
Evil-Angels
shoul
be
permitted
to
do
thus
when
they
had
a
mind
to
it
.
Nevertheless
,
Authors
worthy
of
Credit
,
tell
us
that
this
has
sometimes
hapened
.
De
subtili●a●●
〈…〉
19.
Both
Erasmus
and
Cardanus
write
that
the
Town
of
Schiltach
in
Germany
,
was
in
the
Month
of
April
,
1533.
Set
on
Fire
by
a
Devil
and
Burnt
to
the
Ground
,
in
an
Hours
space
.
T
is
also
reported
by
Sigibert
,
Aventinus
and
others
,
that
some
Cottages
and
Barns
in
a
Town
called
Bingus
were
Fir'd
by
a
wicked
Genius
.
That
spiteful
Daemon
said
it
was
for
the
Impieties
of
such
a
Man
whom
he
named
,
that
he
was
sent
to
molest
them
.
The
poor
Man
to
satisfy
his
Neighbours
,
who
were
ready
to
Stone
him
,
carried
an
hot
Iron
in
his
hand
,
but
recieving
no
hurt
thereby
,
he
was
judged
to
be
innocent
.
It
is
not
ordinary
for
a
Devil
upon
the
Dying
Curse
of
a
Servant
,
to
have
a
Commission
from
Heaven
to
tear
and
torment
a
bloody
cruel
master
;
yet
such
a
thing
may
possibly
come
to
pass
.
There
is
a
fearful
Story
to
this
purpose
in
the
Account
of
the
Bucaneers
of
America
,
p.
75.
76.
wherein
my
Author
relates
that
a
Servant
,
who
was
Spirited
or
Kidnapt
(
as
they
call
it
)
Into
America
,
falling
into
the
Hands
of
a
Tyrannical
Master
,
he
ran
away
from
him
,
but
being
taken
and
brought
back
,
the
hardhearted
Tyrant
Lashed
him
on
his
Naked
Back
,
until
his
Body
ran
in
an
entire
Steam
of
Blood
.
To
make
the
Torment
of
this
Miserable
Creature
Intolerable
,
he
Anoynted
his
Wounds
with
Juyce
of
Lemmon
mingled
with
Salt
,
and
Pepper
,
being
ground
small
together
,
with
which
Torture
the
Miserable
Wretch
gave
up
thc
Ghost
,
with
these
Dying
words
,
I
beseech
the
Almighty
God
,
Creator
of
Heaven
and
Earth
,
that
HE
permit
a
Wicked
Spirit
,
to
make
thee
feel
as
many
Torments
before
thy
Death
,
as
thou
hast
caused
me
to
feel
before
mine
.
Scarce
four
dayes
were
past
after
this
Horrible
Fact
,
when
the
Almighty
Judge
,
gave
Permission
to
the
father
of
Wickedness
to
Possess
the
Body
of
that
cruel
Master
,
and
to
make
him
Lacerate
his
own
flesh
,
until
he
dyed
,
belike
surrendring
his
Ghost
into
the
hands
of
the
Infernal
Spirit
,
who
had
Tormented
his
Body
.
But
of
this
Tragical
Story
enough
.
To
proceed
,
Is
it
not
usual
for
Persons
after
their
Death
to
appear
unto
the
Living
.
But
it
do's
not
therefore
follow
,
that
the
Great
God
will
not
suffer
this
to
be
.
For
both
in
former
and
latter
Ages
,
Examples
thereof
have
not
been
wanting
.
No
longer
since
,
than
the
last
Winter
,
there
was
much
Discourse
in
London
concerning
a
Gentlewoman
,
unto
whom
her
Dead
Son
(
and
another
whom
she
knew
not
)
had
appeared
.
Being
then
in
London
,
I
was
willing
to
satisfy
my self
,
by
enquiring
into
the
Truth
of
what
was
reported
.
And
on
Feb.
23.
1691.
my
Brother
(
who
is
now
a
Pastor
to
a
Congregation
in
that
City
)
and
I
Discoursed
the
Gentlewoman
spoken
of
.
She
told
us
,
that
a
Son
of
hers
,
who
had
been
a
very
civil
young
man
,
but
more
airy
in
his
Temper
than
was
pleasing
to
his
serious
Mother
,
being
Dead
,
she
was
much
concerned
in
her
Thoughts
about
his
Condition
in
the
other
World
.
But
a
Fortnight
after
his
Death
,
he
Appeared
to
her
,
saying
,
Mother
,
you
are
solicitous
about
my
Spiritual
Welfare
.
Trouble
your self
no
more
,
f●r
I
am
happy
,
and
so
vanished
.
Should
there
he
a
continual
Intercourse
between
the
Visible
and
the
Invisible
World
,
it
would
breed
Confusion
.
But
from
thence
to
infeir
,
that
the
Great
Ruler
of
the
Universe
will
never
permit
any
thing
of
this
nature
to
be
,
is
an
inconsequent
Conclusion
.
It
is
not
usual
for
Devils
to
be
permitted
to
come
and
violently
carry
away
persons
through
the
Air
,
several
Miles
from
their
Habitations
.
Nevertheless
,
this
was
done
in
Sweedland
about
Twenty
Years
ago
,
by
means
of
a
cursed
Knot
of
Witches
there
.
And
a
Learned
Physician
now
living
,
giveth
an
Account
of
several
Children
.
who
by
Diabolical
Frauds
were
Stollen
from
their
Parents
,
and
others
left
in
their
room
:
And
of
two
,
that
in
the
night-time
a
Line
was
by
Invisible
Hands
put
about
their
necks
,
with
which
they
had
been
Strangled
,
but
that
some
near
them
happily
prevented
it
.
V.
Germ
.
Ephem
.
Anno
1689.
pag
.
51.
516.
Let
me
further
add
here
;
It
has
very
seldome
been
known
that
Satan
has
personated
Innocent
Men
doing
an
ill
thing
,
but
Providence
has
found
out
some
way
for
their
vindication
;
Either
they
have
been
able
to
prove
that
they
were
in
another
Place
when
that
Fact
was
done
,
or
the
like
.
So
that
perhaps
there
never
was
an
Instance
of
any
Innocent
Person
Condemned
in
any
Court
of
Judicature
on
Earth
,
only
through
Satans
deluding
and
imposing
on
the
Imaginations
of
men
,
when
nevertheless
,
the
Witnesses
,
Juries
,
and
Judges
were
all
to
be
excused
from
blame
.
Arg
:
4.
It
is
certain
both
from
Scripture
and
History
that
Magicians
by
their
Inchantments
and
Hellish
Conjuriations
may
cause
a
false
Repreresentation
of
persons
,
&
things
.
An
inchanted
eye
shall
see
such
things
as
others
cannot
descern
.
It
is
a
thing
too
well
known
to
be
denied
that
some
by
rubbing
there
eyes
with
a
Bewitched
water
have
immediatly
thereupon
seen
that
which
others
could
not
discern
.
And
there
are
persons
in
the
World
,
who
have
a
strange
spectral
sight
.
Mr
Glanvil
In
his
Sadducism
Triumph
Collection
p.
201.
speaks
of
a
Dutch-man
that
could
see
Ghosts
which
others
could
perceive
nothing
of
.
There
are
in
Spain
a
sort
of
men
whom
they
call
Zahurs
;
these
can
see
into
the
Bowels
of
the
Earth
.
They
are
able
to
discover
Minerals
&
hidden
Treasures
.
nevertheless
,
they
have
their
extraordinary
sight
only
on
Tuesdays
and
fridays
;
and
not
on
the
other
dayes
of
the
week
.
(
†
)
Delrio
saith
that
when
he
was
at
Madrid
Ano
.
Domin
.
1575.
He
saw
some
of
these
strange
sighted
Creatures
.
Mr.
George
Sinclare
,
in
his
Book
entituled
Satans
Invisible
World
discovered
p.
215.
(
Disq
.
Magic
.
L.
1.
c
.
3.
p
22
has
these
words
,
I
am
undoubtedly
informed
that
men
and
women
in
the
High-lands
can
discern
Fatality
approaching
others
by
seeing
them
in
the
waters
or
with
winding
Sheets
about
them
.
And
that
others
can
lecture
in
a
Sheeps
shoulder-bone
a
death
within
the
Parish
seven
or
eight
dayes
before
it
come
.
It
is
not
improbable
but
that
such
Preternatural
Knowledge
comes
first
by
a
Compact
with
the
Devil
and
is
derived
down-ward
by
Succession
to
their
Posterity
.
Many
such
I
suppose
are
Innocent
,
and
have
this
sight
against
their
will
and
Inclination
.
Thus
Mr.
Sinclare
.
I
concur
with
his
supposal
that
such
Knowledge
is
Originally
from
Satan
,
and
perhaps
the
Effect
of
some
old
Inchantment
.
There
are
some
at
this
day
in
the
World
,
that
if
they
come
into
an
House
where
one
of
the
Family
will
dye
within
a
Fortnight
,
the
smell
of
a
Dead
Corpse
offends
them
to
such
a
degree
as
that
they
cannot
stay
in
that
House
.
It
is
reported
,
that
near
unto
the
Abby
of
St.
Maurice
in
Burgundy
Vairus
de
Fascino
Lib
2
there
is
a
Fish-pond
in
which
are
Fishes
put
according
to
the
number
of
the
Monks
of
that
place
.
If
any
one
of
them
happen
to
be
sick
there
is
a
Fish
seen
to
Float
and
Swim
above
water
half
dead
,
and
if
the
Monk
shall
dye
,
the
Fish
a
few
dayes
before
dieth
.
In
some
parts
in
Wales
Death-lights
or
Corps
Candles
(
as
they
call
them
)
are
seen
in
the
night
time
going
from
the
House
where
some
body
will
shortly
dye
,
and
passing
into
the
Church-yard
.
Of
this
,
my
dearly
Honoured
and
never
to
beforgotten
Friend
Mr.
Richard
Baxter
p.
131.
has
given
an
Account
in
his
Book
about
Witchcrafts
lately
Published
.
What
to
make
of
such
things
,
except
they
be
the
Effects
of
some
old
Inchantment
I
know
not
.
Nor
what
Natural
Reason
to
Assign
for
that
which
I
find
amongst
the
Observations
of
the
Imperial
Academy
for
the
Year
1687
viz.
That
in
an
Orchard
,
where
are
choice
Damascen
Plumbs
,
the
Master
of
the
Family
being
Sick
of
a
Quartan
Ague
,
whilst
he
continued
very
ill
,
four
of
his
Plumb-trees
instead
of
Damascens
brought
forth
a
vile
sort
of
yellow
Plumbs
:
but
Recovering
Health
,
the
next
Year
the
Tree
did
(
as
formerly
)
hear
Damascens
again
.
But
when
after
that
he
fell
into
a
fatal
Dropsy
,
on
those
Trees
were
seen
not
Damascens
,
but
another
sort
of
Fruit
.
The
same
Author
.
V.
Germ
:
Ephemer
:
Anno
16.
p.
379.
gives
Instances
of
which
he
had
the
certain
knowledge
concerning
Apple-trees
,
and
Pear-trees
,
that
the
Fruit
of
them
would
on
a
sudden
wither
as
if
they
had
been
baked
in
an
Oven
,
when
the
Owners
of
them
were
mortally
sick
.
It
is
no
less
strange
that
in
the
Illustrious
Electoral
Henkelius
de
obsessis
pag
.
86.
House
of
Brandenbarg
before
the
Death
of
some
one
of
the
Family
,
Feminine
Spectres
appeared
.
Camerar
.
cent
.
1.
c
-
73
Cardan
:
de
rerum
varietate
Lib
:
16
:
cap
:
93
And
often
in
the
Houses
of
Great
Men
,
Voices
and
Visions
from
the
Invisible
World
have
been
the
Harbingers
of
Death
,
When
any
Heir
in
the
Worshipful
Family
of
the
Breertons
in
Cheshire
is
near
his
Death
,
there
are
seen
in
a
Pool
adjoyning
,
Bodies
of
Trees
swimming
for
certain
days
together
.
On
which
Learned
Cambden
In
his
Britannia
p
:
609
has
this
note
.
These
and
such
like
things
are
done
either
by
the
Holy
Tutclar
Angels
of
men
,
or
else
by
the
Devils
,
who
by
Gods
Permission
mightily
shew
their
Power
in
this
Inferiour
World
.
As
for
Mr.
Sinclares
Notion
that
some
persons
may
have
a
second
Sight
(
as
't
is
tearmed
)
and
yet
be
themselves
Innocent
,
I
am
satisfied
that
he
judgeth
right
.
For
this
is
common
amongst
the
Laplanders
,
who
are
horribly
addicted
to
Magical
Incantations
.
They
bequeath
their
Daemons
to
their
Children
as
a
Legacy
,
by
whom
they
are
often
assisted
(
like
Bewitched
Persons
,
as
they
are
)
to
see
and
do
things
beyond
the
power
of
Nature
.
An
Historian
who
deserves
Credit
,
relates
,
See
the
History
of
Lapland
And
Mr
Burton's
History
of
Daemons
that
a
certain
Laplander
gave
bim
a
true
and
particular
Account
of
what
had
happened
to
him
in
his
Journey
to
Lapland
.
And
further
complained
to
him
with
Tears
,
rhat
things
at
a
g●●at
●i●tance
were
Represented
to
him
,
and
how
much
he
desired
to
be
Delivered
from
that
Diaboli●●l
Sight
,
but
could
not
.
This
doubtless
was
caused
by
some
Inchantment
.
But
to
proceed
to
what
I
intend
.
The
Eyes
of
Persons
by
reason
of
Inchanting
Charms
,
may
not
only
see
what
others
do
not
,
but
be
under
such
power
of
Fascination
as
that
things
which
are
not
,
shall
appear
to
them
as
real
.
The
Apostle
speaks
of
Bewitched
Eyes
.
Gal.
3.
1
And
we
know
from
Scripture
,
that
the
Imaginations
of
men
have
by
Inchantments
been
imposed
upon
.
And
Histories
abound
with
very
strange
Instances
of
this
Nature
.
The
old
Witch
Circe
by
an
inchanted
Cup
caused
Ulysses
his
Companions
to
imagine
themselves
to
be
turned
into
Swine
.
And
how
many
Witches
have
been
themselves
so
Bewitched
by
the
Devil
,
as
really
to
believe
that
they
were
transformed
into
Wolves
,
or
Dogs
,
or
Cats
.
It
is
Reported
of
Simon
Magus
,
Schotten
Phisic
curios
:
Lib
:
1
:
c
:
16
:
that
by
his
Sorceries
,
he
would
so
impose
on
the
Imaginations
of
people
,
as
that
they
thought
he
had
really
changed
himself
into
another
sort
of
Creature
.
Apollonius
of
Tyana
could
out-do
Simon
with
his
Magick
.
The
great
Bohemian
Conjurer
Zyto
See
Wanly
of
the
Wonders
of
the
World
p
215
by
his
Inchantments
caused
certain
Persons
,
whom
he
had
a
mind
to
try
his
Art
upon
,
to
imagine
that
their
hands
were
turned
into
the
seet
of
an
Ox
,
or
into
the
Hoofs
of
a
Horse
,
so
that
they
could
not
reach
to
the
Dishes
before
them
to
take
any
thing
thence
.
He
Sold
Wisps
of
Straw
to
a
Butcher
,
who
bought
them
for
Swine
That
many
such
prestigious
Pranks
were
played
.
by
the
unhappy
Faustus
,
is
attested
by
Camerarius
,
Wierus
,
Voetius
,
Lavater
,
and
Lonicer
.
There
is
newly
Published
a
Book
(
mentioned
in
the
Acta
Eruditorum
)
wherein
the
Author
Ubi
supra
(
Wiechard
Valvassor
)
relates
that
a
Venetian
Jew
instructed
him
(
only
he
would
not
attend
his
Instructions
)
how
to
make
a
Magical
Glass
which
should
represent
any
person
or
thing
according
as
he
should
desire
.
If
a
Magician
by
an
Inchanted
Glass
can
do
this
,
he
may
as
well
by
the
help
of
a
Daemon
cause
false
Idaeas
of
Persons
and
Things
to
be
Impressed
on
the
Imaginations
of
bewitched
Persons
.
The
Blood
and
Spirits
of
a
Man
,
that
is
bitten
with
a
Mad-Dogg
,
are
so
envenomed
,
as
that
strange
Impressions
are
thereby
made
on
his
Imagination
.
Let
him
be
brought
into
a
Room
where
there
is
a
Looking-Glass
,
and
he
will
(
if
put
upon
it
)
not
only
say
but
swear
that
he
sees
a
Dog
tho'
in
truth
there
is
no
Dog
it
may
be
within
20
Miles
of
him
.
And
is
it
not
then
possible
,
for
the
Dogs
of
Hell
to
poyson
the
Imaginations
of
miserable
Creatures
,
so
as
that
they
shall
believe
&
swear
that
such
Persons
hurt
them
as
never
did
so
?
I
have
heard
of
an
Inchanted
Pin
,
that
has
caused
the
Condemnation
and
Death
of
many
scores
of
Innocent
persons
.
There
was
a
Notorious
Witchfinder
in
Scotland
,
that
undertook
by
a
Pin
,
to
make
an
Infallible
discovery
of
suspected
persons
,
whether
they
were
Witches
or
not
If
when
the
Pin
was
run
an
Inch
or
two
into
into
the
Body
of
the
Accused
party
,
no
blood
appeared
,
nor
any
sense
of
Pain
,
then
he
declared
them
to
be
Witches
.
By
means
hereof
my
Author
tells
me
no
less
then
300
persons
were
condemned
for
witches
in
that
Kingdom
.
This
Bloody
Jugler
after
he
had
done
enough
in
Scotland
,
came
to
the
Town
of
Berwick
upon
Tweed
.
An
honest
man
now
living
in
New-England
assureth
me
that
he
saw
the
man
thrust
a
great
Brasse
Pin
two
inches
into
the
body
of
one
that
some
would
in
that
way
try
whether
there
was
Witchcraft
in
the
case
or
no
.
The
Accused
Party
was
not
in
the
least
sensible
of
what
was
done
,
and
therefore
in
danger
of
receiving
the
Punishment
justly
due
for
Witchcraft
.
Only
it
so
happened
,
that
Collonel
Fenwick
(
that
worthy
Gentleman
,
who
many
years
since
lived
in
New
England
)
was
then
the
Military
Governour
in
that
Town
.
He
sent
for
the
Mayor
and
Magistrates
,
advising
them
to
be
careful
and
cautious
in
their
Proceedings
.
For
he
told
them
,
it
might
be
an
Inchanted
Pin
,
which
the
Witch-finder
made
use
of
.
Whereupon
the
Magistrates
of
the
place
ordered
that
he
should
make
his
Experiment
with
some
other
Pin
as
they
should
appoint
:
But
that
he
would
by
no
means
be
induced
unto
,
which
was
a
sufficient
Discovery
of
the
Knavery
and
Witchery
of
the
Witch-finder
.
There
is
a
strange
Diabolical
Energy
goeth
along
with
Incantations
.
If
Balak
had
not
known
that
,
he
would
not
have
sent
for
Balaam
to
see
whether
he
could
Inchant
the
Children
of
Israel
.
The
Scripture
intimates
that
Inchantments
will
keep
a
Serpent
from
biting
,
Eccles
.
10.
11.
A
Witch
in
Sweedland
confessed
that
the
Devil
gave
her
a
wooden
Knife
;
and
that
if
she
did
but
touch
any
living
thing
with
that
Knife
,
it
would
dy
immediately
.
And
that
there
is
a
wonderful
Power
of
the
Devil
attending
things
Inchanted
,
we
have
confirmed
by
a
prodigious
Instance
in
Major
Weir
a
Scotchman
.
That
wretched
man
was
a
perfect
Prodigy
.
A
man
of
great
parts
;
esteemed
a
Saint
;
yet
lived
in
secret
Uncleanness
with
his
own
Sister
for
Thirty
Four
Years
together
.
After
his
wickedness
was
discovered
,
he
did
not
seem
to
be
troubled
at
any
of
his
Crimes
,
excepting
that
he
had
caused
a
poor
woman
to
be
publickly
whipped
,
because
she
reported
that
she
had
seen
him
committing
Beastiality
:
which
thing
was
true
,
only
the
woman
could
not
prove
it
.
This
horrid
Creature
,
if
he
had
his
Inchanted
Staff
in
his
hand
,
could
pray
to
Admiration
,
and
do
extraordinary
things
,
as
is
more
amply
related
in
the
Postscript
to
Mr.
Sinclares
his
Book
before
mentioned
.
But
if
he
had
not
his
Inchanted
Rod
to
Lean
upon
,
he
could
not
transform
himself
into
an
Angel
of
Light
.
But
by
all
these
things
we
may
conclude
,
that
it
is
not
impossible
,
but
that
a
guilty
Conjurer
,
that
so
he
may
render
himself
the
less
suspected
,
may
by
his
Magical
Art
and
Inchantment
cause
Innocent
Persons
to
be
Represented
as
affiicting
those
whom
the
Devil
and
himself
are
the
Tormentors
of
.
Arg.
5.
The
Truth
we
affirm
is
so
evident
,
as
that
many
Learned
and
Judicious
Men
have
freely
subscribed
unto
it
:
The
Memorable
Relation
of
the
Devils
assuming
the
Shape
of
an
Innocent
Citizen
in
Zurick
,
is
in
the
Judgement
of
that
Great
Divine
,
Lud
Levater
of
weighty
Consideration
.
And
he
declares
that
he
does
therefore
mention
it
,
that
so
Judges
might
be
cautelous
in
their
Proceedings
in
cases
of
this
nature
,
inasmuch
as
the
Devil
does
often
in
that
way
intangle
Innocent
Persons
,
and
bring
them
into
great
Troubles
.
His
words
are
De
Spectris
.
p.
86
,
87.
Hanc
Historian
ideo
recito
,
ut
Judices
,
in
hujusmodi
,
Casibus
cauti
sint
:
Diabolus
enim
hac
via
sape
innocentibus
insidiatur
.
He
confirms
what
he
saith
by
Reciting
a
Passage
out
of
Alertus
Granzius
,
who
writes
that
the
Devil
was
seen
in
the
Shape
of
a
Noble
man
to
come
out
of
the
Empress
her
Chamber
.
But
to
clear
her
Innocency
she
(
according
to
the
superstitious
Ordeals
then
in
fashion
)
walked
blindfold
over
a
great
many
of
glowing
hot
Irons
without
touching
any
of
them
.
Voetius
in
his
Disput
.
Select
.
Vol.
1.
pag
.
1008.
Disputation
of
Spectres
,
proposeth
that
Question
,
whether
the
Devil
may
not
untruly
personate
a
Godly
man
,
and
answers
in
the
Affirmative
.
And
withal
adds
,
that
it
is
a
sufficient
Argument
(
Ad
hominem
)
to
answer
the
Papists
with
their
own
Histories
,
which
give
Instances
of
Satan's
appearing
in
the
Figure
of
Saints
,
nay
of
Christ
himself
.
And
in
his
Discourse
concerning
the
Operations
of
Daemons
pap
.
944.
he
has
the
like
Problem
,
whether
the
Devil
may
not
possibly
put
on
the
Shape
of
a
true
Believer
,
a
real
Saint
,
not
only
of
such
as
are
dead
,
but
still
living
,
and
answers
,
Quidni
?
Why
not
?
It
is
true
Popish
Casuis●s
Thyraeus
de
Apparitionibus
lib
.
2.
cap
.
14.
do
generally
incline
to
the
Negative
In
this
Question
-
Neverthelese
,
the
Instance
of
Germanus
who
saw
a
company
of
honest
people
represented
by
the
Devil
as
if
they
had
bin
feasting
together
,
when
they
were
really
asleep
in
their
beds
,
does
a
little
puzzle
them
,
so
as
that
they
are
necessitated
to
take
up
with
this
Conclusion
,
Binsfield
de
confessionibus
sagarum
.
p.
183.
191
That
by
an
extraordinary
Permission
of
God
,
Innocent
Persons
may
be
Represented
by
Satan
in
the
Nocturai
Conventicles
of
Witches
.
And
if
so
,
much
more
as
affiicting
Bewitched
Persons
.
Delrio
giveth
an
account
of
an
Innocent
Monk
,
whose
Reputation
was
indangered
by
a
Daemons
appearing
in
his
Shape
.
He
writes
more
like
a
Divine
than
Jesuites
use
to
do
,
when
he
saith
that
Disquis
.
Magic
.
Lib
.
2.
Q.
12.
p.
143.
It
is
not
absolutely
to
be
denied
,
but
that
the
Devils
may
exhibit
the
Forms
of
Innocent
Persons
,
if
God
permit
it
,
who
when
he
does
permit
it
,
usually
by
some
Providence
discovers
the
Fraud
of
the
Devils
,
that
so
the
Innocent
may
be
vindicated
,
or
if
not
,
it
is
to
bring
them
to
Repentance
for
some
Sin
,
or
to
try
their
Patience
.
It
is
rare
to
see
such
words
dropping
from
the
Pen
of
a
Jesuit
.
As
for
Protestant
Writers
,
I
cannot
call
to
mind
one
of
any
note
,
that
does
deny
the
possibility
of
the
Affirmative
,
in
the
Question
before
us
.
Dr.
Henkelius
has
lately
Printed
at
Frankford
,
Anno
1689.
Published
a
Learned
and
Elaborate
Discourse
concerning
the
right
Method
of
Curing
such
as
are
Obsessed
with
Cacodaemons
,
in
which
he
asserts
,
that
Satan
may
possibly
assume
the
Form
of
Innocent
and
Pious
Persons
,
that
so
be
might
thereby
destroy
their
Reputations
,
and
expose
ehem
to
undue
Punishments
.
As
for
our
English
Divines
,
there
are
not
many
greater
Casuists
than
Mr.
Perkins
.
Nor
do
I
know
any
one
that
has
written
on
the
case
of
Witchcraft
with
more
Judgment
and
Clearness
of
Understanding
.
He
has
these
words
Discourse
of
witchcraft
chap.
7.
sect
.
2.
p.
644.
If
a
man
being
dangerously
sick
and
like
to
dye
upon
Suspicion
,
will
take
it
on
his
death
,
that
such
an
one
has
Bewitched
him
,
it
is
an
allegation
which
may
move
the
Judge
to
Examine
the
Party
,
but
it
is
of
no
moment
for
Conviction
.
The
like
is
asserted
by
In
his
witchcraft
discovered
.
page
277.
Mr.
Cooper
,
Mr.
Bernard
,
(
once
a
famous
Minister
at
Batcomb
in
Somerset
)
his
Book
called
,
A
Guide
to
Grand-Jury-men
in
Cases
of
Witchcraft
,
is
a
solid
and
wise
Treatise
.
What
his
Judgment
was
in
the
Case
now
under
Debate
,
we
may
see
,
page
209
,
210.
Where
his
words
are
these
:
An
Apparition
of
the
Party
suspected
,
whom
the
Afflicted
in
their
Fits
seem
to
see
,
is
a
great
suspicion
.
Yet
this
is
but
a
Presumption
tho'
a
strong
one
,
because
these
Apparitions
are
wrought
by
the
Devil
,
who
can
Represent
to
the
Phantasy
such
as
the
Parties
use
to
fear
,
in
which
Representation
he
may
as
well
lye
as
in
his
other
Witness
.
For
if
the
Devil
can
represent
to
the
Witch
seeming
Samuel
,
saying
,
I
see
Gods
ascending
out
of
the
Earth
,
to
beguile
Saul
,
may
we
not
think
he
can
represent
a
common
ordinary
Person
,
Man
or
Woman
Unregenerate
tho'
no
Witch
to
the
Phantasy
of
vain
persons
,
to
deceive
them
and
others
that
will
give
Credit
to
the
Devil
.
Thus
Mr.
Bernard
.
As
for
the
Judgment
of
the
Elders
in
New-England
,
so
far
as
I
can
learn
,
they
do
generally
concurr
with
Mr.
Perkins
,
and
Mr.
Bernard
.
This
I
know
,
that
at
a
Meeting
of
Ministers
at
Cambridge
,
August
1.
1692.
where
were
present
seven
Elders
besides
the
President
of
the
Colledge
,
the
Question
then
discoursed
on
,
was
,
Whether
the
Devil
may
not
sometimes
have
a
Permission
to
Represent
an
Innocent
Person
as
tormenting
such
as
are
under
Diabolical
Molestations
?
The
Answer
which
they
all
concurred
in
was
in
these
words
,
viz.
That
the
Devil
may
sometimes
have
a
Permission
to
Represent
an
Innocent
Person
as
tormenting
such
as
are
under
Diabolical
Molestations
.
But
that
such
things
are
rare
and
extraordiry
,
especially
when
such
Matters
come
before
Civil
Judicatures
.
And
that
some
of
the
most
Eminent
Ministers
in
the
Land
,
who
were
not
at
that
Meeting
,
are
of
the
same
Judgment
,
I
am
assured
.
And
I
am
also
sure
,
that
in
Cases
of
this
Nature
,
the
Priests
Lips
should
keep
Knowledge
,
and
they
should
seek
the
Law
at
his
Mouth
,
Mal
.
2.
7.
Arg.
6.
Our
own
Experience
has
confirmed
the
Truth
of
what
we
affirm
.
I
have
in
another
Book
given
an
account
concerning
Eliz
.
Knap
,
of
Groton
,
who
complained
that
a
Woman
as
eminent
for
Piety
,
as
any
in
that
Town
,
did
appear
to
her
,
and
afflict
her
.
But
afterwards
she
was
satisfied
that
that
person
never
did
her
any
harm
,
but
that
the
Devil
abused
them
both
.
About
two
years
ago
,
a
bewitched
person
in
Chelmsford
,
in
her
Fitts
,
complained
that
a
worthy
good
man
a
near
relation
of
hers
,
did
afflict
her
.
So
did
she
likewise
complain
of
another
person
in
that
Town
,
of
known
Integrity
and
Piety
I
have
my self
known
several
of
whom
I
ought
to
think
that
they
are
now
in
Heaven
,
considering
that
they
were
of
good
Conversation
,
and
reputed
Pious
by
those
that
had
the
greatest
Intimacy
with
them
,
of
whom
nevertheless
,
some
complained
that
their
Shapes
appeared
to
them
,
and
threatned
them
.
Nor
is
this
answered
by
saying
,
we
do
not
know
but
those
persons
might
be
Witches
.
We
are
bound
by
the
Rule
of
Charity
to
think
otherwise
.
And
they
that
censure
any
,
meerly
because
uch
a
sad
Affliction
as
their
being
falsely
represented
by
Satan
,
has
befallen
them
,
do
not
do
as
they
would
be
done
by
.
I
bless
the
Lord
,
it
was
never
the
portion
allotted
to
me
,
nor
to
any
Relation
of
mine
to
be
thus
abused
.
But
no
man
knoweth
what
may
happen
to
him
,
since
There
be
just
Men
unto
whom
it
hapneth
according
to
the
work
of
the
Wicked
.
Eccles
.
8.
14.
But
what
needs
more
to
be
said
,
since
there
is
one
amongst
ourselves
whom
no
man
,
that
knows
him
,
can
think
him
to
be
a
Wizzard
,
whom
yet
some
bewitched
persons
complained
of
,
that
they
are
in
his
Shape
Tormented
.
And
the
Devils
have
of
late
,
accused
some
Eminent
Persons
.
It
is
an
awful
thing
which
the
Lord
has
done
to
convince
some
amongst
us
of
their
error
.
This
then
I
Declare
and
Testify
,
that
to
take
away
the
life
of
any
one
;
meerly
because
a
Spectre
or
Devil
,
in
a
Bewitched
or
Possessed
person
does
accuse
them
,
will
bring
the
Guilt
of
Innocent
Blood
on
the
Land
,
where
such
a
thing
shall
be
done
.
Mercy
forbid
that
it
should
,
(
and
I
trust
that
as
it
has
not
,
it
never
will
be
so
)
in
New-England
.
What
does
such
an
Evidence
amount
unto
more
then
this
.
Either
such
an
one
did
afflict
such
an
one
,
or
the
Devil
in
his
likeness
,
or
his
Eyes
were
bewitched
.
The
things
which
have
been
mentioned
make
way
for
,
and
bring
us
unto
the
Second
Case
,
which
is
to
come
under
our
Consideration
,
Viz
.
If
one
Bewitched
is
struck
down
at
the
Look
or
Cast
of
the
Eye
of
another
,
and
after
that
Recovered
again
by
a
Touch
from
the
same
Person
,
is
not
this
an
infallible
Proof
that
the
Person
Suspected
and
Complained
of
is
in
League
with
the
Devil
?
Answer
;
It
must
be
owned
that
by
such
things
as
these
Witchcrafts
and
Witches
have
been
discovered
more
then
once
or
twice
.
And
that
an
ill
Fame
or
other
Circumstances
attending
the
suspected
Party
,
this
may
be
a
ground
for
Examination
;
but
this
alone
does
not
afford
sufficient
matter
for
Conviction
.
As
Spectres
or
Devils
appearing
in
the
Shapes
of
men
that
have
been
murdered
,
declaring
that
they
were
murdered
by
such
persons
and
in
such
a
Place
,
may
give
just
Occasion
to
the
Magistrate
for
Enquiry
into
the
matter
.
One
great
Witch-Advocate
Websters
Displaying
of
supposed
Witchcraft
.
Pag
298.
308.
confesseth
that
by
this
means
Murders
have
been
brought
to
Light
;
yet
that
alone
,
if
other
Circumstances
did
not
concurr
,
would
not
by
the
Law
of
God
take
away
the
Life
of
any
man
.
If
my
Reader
pleaseth
,
he
shall
hear
what
old
Mr.
Bernard
of
Batcomb
saith
to
a
Case
not
unlike
to
this
,
and
the
former
.
His
words
are
these
.
(
e
)
The
naming
of
the
suspected
in
their
Fits
,
and
also
where
they
have
been
,
and
what
they
have
done
here
or
there
,
as
Mr.
Throgmortons
Children
could
do
,
and
that
often
and
ever
found
true
,
This
is
a
great
Presumption
;
yet
is
this
but
a
Presumption
,
because
this
is
only
the
Devils
Testimony
,
who
can
lye
and
that
more
often
than
speak
Truth
.
Christ
would
not
allow
his
witness
of
him
in
a
point
(
c
)
Ubi
supra
.
Pag
.
207
,
208.
most
true
.
Nor
St.
Paul
in
the
due
praises
of
him
and
Sylas
.
His
witness
then
may
not
be
received
as
sufficient
in
case
of
ones
Life
.
He
may
accuse
an
Innocent
,
as
I
shewed
before
in
Mr.
Edmunds
giving
over
his
practice
to
find
Stolen
Goods
.
And
Satan
we
read
would
accuse
Joh
to
God
Himself
to
be
an
Hypocrite
,
and
to
be
ready
to
be
a
Blasphemer
.
And
he
is
called
the
Accuser
of
the
Brethren
.
Albeit
I
cannot
deny
but
this
has
very
often
proved
true
,
yet
seeing
the
Devil
is
such
an
one
as
you
heard
,
Christian
men
should
not
take
his
witness
,
to
give
in
Verdict
upon
Oath
,
and
so
swear
that
the
Devil
has
therein
spoken
the
Truth
.
Be
it
far
from
good
men
to
confirm
any
word
of
the
Devil
by
Oath
,
if
it
be
not
an
evident
Truth
without
the
Devils
Testimony
,
who
in
speaking
the
truth
has
a
lying
Intent
,
and
speaks
some
truths
of
things
done
,
which
may
be
found
to
be
so
,
that
he
may
wrap
with
them
some
pernicious
Lye
,
which
cannot
be
tried
to
be
true
,
but
must
rest
upon
his
own
Testimony
to
insnare
the
Blood
of
the
Innocent
.
Thus
Mr.
Bernard
resolved
the
Case
above
sixty
years
ago
;
and
truly
in
my
Opinion
like
a
Wise
and
Orthodox
Divine
,
what
he
says
,
reacheth
both
this
and
the
former
Case
.
Doctor
Cotta
(
a
Learned
Physician
)
in
his
Book
about
The
Tryal
of
Witchcraft
,
shewing
the
true
and
right
Method
of
the
Discovery
with
●
Confutation
of
Erroneous
Ways
(
which
Book
he
Dedicates
to
the
Right
Honourable
Sir
Edward
Cook
Lord
Chief
Justice
of
England
)
Chap.
15.
page
114
,
&c.
He
Discourses
concerning
the
Exploration
of
Witches
by
the
Touch
of
the
Witch
curing
the
Touched
Bewitched
,
and
sheweth
the
Fallibility
and
Vanity
of
that
way
of
Tryal
,
tho'
he
had
often
seen
persons
Bewitched
in
that
way
immediately
delivered
from
the
present
Fit
or
Agony
which
was
upon
them
.
But
he
taketh
it
to
be
be
a
Diabolical
Miracle
.
He
argueth
thus
,
page
121
,
122.
No
man
can
doubt
but
that
the
vertue
wherewith
this
Touch
was
indued
,
is
supernatural
.
If
it
be
so
,
how
can
man
,
to
whom
nothing
is
simply
possible
that
is
not
natural
,
be
justly
reputed
an
Agent
therein
?
If
he
cannot
be
esteemed
in
himself
any
possible
or
true
Agent
,
then
it
remaineth
that
he
can
only
be
interessed
therein
as
an
Accessary
in
Consent
,
or
as
a
Servant
unto
a
Superiour
Power
.
If
that
Superiour
Power
be
the
Devil
,
the
least
reasonable
doubt
remaining
,
whether
the
Devil
alone
or
with
the
Consent
or
Contract
of
the
suspected
person
has
produced
that
wonderful
effect
;
with
what
Religion
or
Reason
can
any
man
incline
rather
to
Credit
the
Devils
mouth
in
the
Bewitched
,
than
to
pity
the
Accused
,
&
believe
them
against
the
subtilty
of
a
deceitful
Devil
.
If
the
Devil
by
Divine
Permission
may
cause
supernatural
Concomitances
and
Consequences
to
attend
the
natural
Actions
of
men
without
their
Allowance
,
as
is
manifest
in
Possessed
Persons
,
how
is
it
reasonable
and
just
that
the
Impositions
of
the
Devil
should
be
imputed
unto
any
man
.
And
(
saith
he
)
God
forbid
that
the
Devils
Signs
and
Wonders
,
nay
his
Truths
should
become
any
legal
Allegations
or
Evidences
in
Law
.
We
may
therefore
conclude
it
unjust
that
the
forenamed
Miraculous
Effect
by
the
Devil
wrought
and
imputed
by
the
Bewitched
,
should
be
esteemed
an
infallible
Mark
against
any
man
,
as
therefore
convinced
for
that
the
Devil
and
the
Bewitched
have
so
decyphered
him
?
Thus
that
Learned
Man
.
But
to
the
case
in
hand
,
I
have
several
things
to
offer
.
1.
It
is
possible
that
the
Persons
in
Question
may
be
Possessed
with
Cacodaemons
.
That
bewitched
Persons
are
many
times
really
possessed
with
evil
Spirits
,
is
most
certain
.
And
as
Mr.
Perkins
observes
,
no
man
can
prove
but
that
Witchcraft
might
be
the
cause
of
many
of
those
Possessions
,
which
we
read
of
in
the
Gospel
.
And
that
Devils
have
been
immitted
into
the
Bodyes
of
miserable
Creatures
by
Magicians
and
Witches
,
Histories
and
Experience
do
abundantly
testify
.
Hierom
In
vita
Hilarion
relates
concerning
a
certain
Virgin
,
that
a
young
man
,
whose
Amours
she
despised
,
prevailed
with
a
Magician
to
send
an
evil
Spirit
into
her
,
by
means
whereof
she
was
strangly
besotted
.
T
is
reported
Anastasius
Quest
.
23.
of
Simon
Magus
that
after
he
had
used
an
Hellish
Sacrifice
,
to
be
revenged
of
some
that
had
called
him
a
great
Witch
,
he
caused
infernal
Spirits
to
enter
into
them
.
Many
confessing
Witches
have
acknowledged
that
they
were
the
cause
of
such
and
such
Persons
being
Possessed
by
evil
Angels
,
as
In
Disput
.
De
Daemoniacis
part
1.
chap.
16.
page
30.
Thyraeus
and
others
have
observed
.
Now
no
Credit
ought
to
be
given
to
what
Daemons
in
such
,
as
are
by
them
Obsessed
,
shall
say
.
Our
Saviour
by
his
own
une●ring
Example
has
taught
us
not
to
receive
the
Devils
Testimony
in
any
thing
.
The
Papists
are
justly
Condemned
for
bringing
Diabolical
Testimony
to
confirm
the
Principles
of
their
Religion
.
Peter
Cotton
the
Jesuit
Thuanus
Lib
.
130.
page
1136.
enquired
of
the
Devil
in
a
Possessed
Person
what
was
the
clearest
Scripture
to
prove
Purgatory
.
At
the
time
when
Luther
dyed
,
all
the
possessed
people
in
the
Netherlands
were
quiet
.
The
Devils
in
them
,
said
the
reason
was
,
because
Luther
Thyraeus
ubi
supra
page
16.
had
been
a
great
Friend
of
theirs
,
and
they
owed
him
that
respect
as
to
go
as
far
as
Germany
to
attend
his
Funeral
.
Another
time
when
there
was
a
talk
of
some
Ministers
of
the
reformed
Religion
,
the
Devils
in
the
Obsessed
laughed
and
said
they
were
not
at
all
afraid
of
them
,
for
the
Calvinists
and
they
were
very
good
Friends
.
The
Jesuits
insult
with
these
Tistimonie●
as
if
they
were
divine
Oracles
.
But
the
Father
of
Lies
is
never
to
be
believed
.
He
will
uttet
Twenty
great
Truths
to
make
way
for
one
lye
.
He
will
accuse
Twenty
Witches
,
if
he
can
but
thereby
bring
one
Innocent
Person
into
Trouble
.
He
mixeth
Truths
with
Lies
,
that
so
those
Truths
giving
Credit
unto
Lies
,
men
may
believe
both
,
and
so
be
deceived
.
And
whereas
some
say
that
the
Persons
in
Question
are
only
bewitched
a●●
not
possessed
,
let
it
be
Considered
that
possessed
persons
are
called
Energumens
from
EPIOMAI
Agitor
.
They
whose
Bodys
are
Preternaturally
agitated
,
so
as
to
be
in
danger
of
being
thrown
into
the
Fire
or
into
the
Water
,
though
they
may
be
bewitched
,
are
undoubtedly
possessed
with
Daemons
.
Mark
9.
22
,
25.
Learned
men
Henkel
ubi
supra
page
47.
50.
give
it
as
a
most
certain
sign
of
possession
,
when
the
Afflicted
party
can
see
and
hear
that
which
no
one
else
can
discern
any
thing
of
,
and
when
they
can
discover
Brockmand
.
Theol
.
page
265.
secret
things
.
Acts
6.
16.
past
,
or
future
,
Melancthon
Epist.
as
a
possessed
person
in
Germany
foretold
the
War
which
broke
out
in
the
year
1546.
And
when
the
Limbs
of
miserable
Creatures
are
bent
and
disjoynted
so
as
could
not
possible
be
without
a
Luxation
of
Joynts
,
were
it
not
done
by
a
preternatural
hand
,
and
yet
no
hurt
raised
thereby
,
that
argueth
Possession
.
Also
,
when
persons
are
by
the
Devil
cast
into
Fits
,
in
the
which
they
speak
of
things
,
that
afterwards
they
have
no
remembrance
of
(
e
)
or
,
if
they
are
by
cruel
Devils
tortured
,
so
as
to
cause
horrendous
Clamours
in
the
Distressed
Sufferers
,
that
's
another
sign
of
Obsession
by
evil
Spirits
.
If
all
these
things
concurr
in
the
persons
concerning
where
the
Question
is
,
we
may
conclude
them
to
be
Daemoniacks
.
And
if
so
,
no
Juror
can
with
a
safe
Conscience
look
on
the
Testimony
of
such
,
as
sufficient
to
take
away
the
Life
of
any
man
.
2.
Falling
down
by
the
cast
of
an
Eye
proceeds
not
from
a
natural
,
but
an
Arbitrary
Cause
.
Not
(
c
)
Tostatus
in
Mat
.
8.
Quest
.
114.
(
d
)
Baldwin
Case
of
Conse
.
L.
3.
C.
3.
p.
621.
from
any
Poyson
in
the
Eye
of
the
Witch
,
but
from
the
Agency
of
some
Daemon
.
The
Opinion
of
Fascination
by
the
Eye
is
an
old
Fable
.
And
(
saith
Mr.
Perkins
)
as
fond
as
old
.
Pliny
Lib
.
7.
Cap.
2.
speaks
of
a
people
that
killed
Folks
by
looking
on
them
,
and
he
adds
that
they
had
two
Apples
in
each
Eye
.
And
Tully
writes
of
women
who
had
two
Apples
in
one
Eye
that
always
did
mischief
with
their
meer
Looks
.
So
Ovid
.
Pupula
duplex
fulminat
.
And
Plutarch
5
Sympas
.
cap
.
7.
writes
that
some
persons
have
such
a
poyson
in
their
Eyes
as
that
their
Friends
and
Familiars
are
fascinated
thereby
.
Nay
he
speaks
of
one
that
Bewitched
himself
sick
by
looking
on
his
own
Face
in
a
Glass
.
Others
write
of
Fascination
by
a
meer
Prolation
of
words
.
And
for
ought
I
know
,
there
may
be
as
much
witchery
in
the
Tongue
as
there
is
in
the
Eye
.
Sennertus
Med
.
precl
.
Lib
.
6.
par●
9.
cap
1.
has
discovered
the
Superstition
of
these
Fancies
.
Sight
does
not
proceed
from
an
Emission
of
Rayes
from
the
Eye
,
but
by
a
reception
of
the
visible
Species
.
And
if
it
be
(
as
Philosophers
conclude
)
an
Innocent
Action
and
not
an
Emission
of
optick
Spirits
,
so
that
sight
as
such
,
does
receive
something
from
the
Object
,
and
not
act
upon
it
,
the
notion
of
Fascination
by
the
Eye
is
unphilosophical
.
It
is
true
,
that
sore
Eyes
will
affect
those
that
look
upon
them
.
Dum
spectant
Oculi
Laesos
,
L●●●untur
et
ipsi
,
for
which
a
natural
Reason
is
easily
to
be
assigned
.
But
if
the
Witches
eyes
are
thus
infected
with
a
natural
Contagion
,
whence
is
it
,
that
only
Bewitched
Persons
are
hurt
thereby
?
if
the
vulgar
Errour
concerning
the
Bas●●is●s
killing
with
the
Look
of
his
poysonful
eye
,
were
a
Truth
,
whatever
person
that
Serpent
●ast
his
Eye
upon
would
be
poysoned
.
So
if
Witches
had
a
physical
Venome
in
their
Eyess
others
as
well
as
fascinated
persons
would
be
sensible
thereof
.
There
is
as
much
Truth
in
this
Phansy
of
Physical
Venome
in
the
Eye
of
a
Witch
,
as
there
is
in
what
Pliny
Lib
.
2.
cap
.
2.
Wierus
L.
6.
C.
9.
p.
683.
and
others
relate
concerning
the
Thibians
,
viz.
that
they
have
two
Apples
in
one
Eye
,
and
the
Effigies
of
an
Horse
in
the
other
Eye
;
and
that
they
are
a
people
that
cannot
be
drowned
:
3.
As
for
that
which
concerns
the
Bewitched
Persons
being
recovered
out
of
their
Agonies
by
the
Touch
of
the
Suspected
Party
,
it
is
various
and
fallible
.
For
sometimes
the
Afflicted
Person
is
made
sick
,
(
instead
of
being
made
whole
)
by
the
touch
of
the
Accused
.
Sometimes
the
Power
of
Imagination
is
such
as
that
the
Touch
of
a
Person
innocent
and
not
accused
shall
have
the
same
effect
.
It
is
related
in
the
Account
of
the
Tryals
of
Witches
at
Bury
in
Suffolk
1664
during
the
time
See
the
Tryal
,
pag
.
40.
43
,
45.
of
the
Tryal
there
were
some
Experiments
made
with
the
persons
afflicted
,
by
bringing
the
Accused
to
touch
them
,
and
it
was
observed
that
by
the
least
Touch
of
one
of
the
supposed
Witches
,
they
that
were
in
their
Fitts
,
to
all
mens
Apprehension
wholly
deprived
of
all
sense
and
understandings
,
would
suddenly
shriek
out
and
open
their
hands
.
Mr.
Serjeant
Keeling
,
did
not
think
that
sufficient
to
Convict
the
Prisoners
,
for
admitting
that
the
Children
were
in
Truth
Bewitched
,
yet
(
saith
he
)
it
cannot
be
applyed
to
the
Prisoners
upon
the
Imagination
only
of
the
Parties
Afflicted
.
For
if
that
might
be
allowed
,
no
Person
whatsoever
can
be
in
safety
,
for
perhaps
they
might
fancy
another
Person
who
might
altogether
be
innocent
in
such
matters
.
To
avoid
this
Scruple
it
was
privately
desired
by
the
Judge
,
that
some
Gentlemen
there
in
Court
,
would
attend
one
of
the
distempered
Persons
in
the
farther
part
of
the
Hall
,
whilst
she
was
in
her
Fitts
,
and
then
to
send
for
one
of
the
Witches
to
try
what
would
happen
,
which
they
did
accordingly
.
One
of
them
was
convey'd
from
the
Barr
,
and
brought
to
the
Afflicted
Maid
.
They
put
an
Apron
before
her
Eyes
,
and
then
another
person
(
not
the
Witch
)
touched
her
,
which
produced
the
same
Effect
,
as
the
Touch
of
the
Witch
did
in
the
Court
.
Whereupon
the
Gentlemen
returned
much
unsatisfyed
.
Bodin
In
Daemonomania
.
See
Mr.
Bromhals
History
of
Apparitions
pag
.
136.
relates
that
a
Witch
who
was
tryed
at
Nants
,
was
commanded
by
the
Judges
to
touch
a
bewitched
person
,
a
thing
often
practised
by
the
Judges
of
Germany
in
the
Imperial
Chamber
.
The
Witch
was
extreamly
unwilling
,
but
being
Compelled
by
the
Judges
,
she
cryed
●●t
,
I
am
undone
;
and
as
soon
as
ever
she
touched
the
Afflicted
person
,
the
Witch
fell
down
dead
,
and
the
other
recovered
.
That
horrid
Witch
of
Salisbury
,
Ann
Bodenham
See
the
Printed
Relation
page
30
,
31.
who
had
been
Servant
to
the
Notorious
Conjurer
Dr.
Lamb
,
could
not
bear
the
sight
of
one
that
was
Bewitched
by
her
.
Assoon
as
ever
she
saw
the
Afflicted
Person
,
she
ran
about
sh●●●king
,
and
crying
,
and
roaring
,
after
an
Hi●eous
manner
,
that
the
Devil
would
Tear
her
in
pieces
,
if
that
Person
came
near
her
.
And
whilst
the
Witch
was
in
such
Torment
,
the
Bewitched
was
at
ease
,
By
these
things
we
see
that
the
Laws
and
Customes
of
the
Kingdome
of
Darkness
are
not
always
and
in
all
places
the
same
.
And
it
is
good
for
men
to
concern
themselves
with
them
as
little
as
may
be
.
I
think
there
is
weight
in
Dr.
Cotta's
ubi
supra
pag
.
121.
Argument
,
Viz
.
That
the
Gift
of
healing
the
Sick
and
Possessed
was
a
special
Grace
and
Favour
of
God
,
for
the
Confirmation
of
the
Truth
of
the
Gospel
,
but
that
such
a
Gift
should
be
annexed
to
the
Touch
of
Wicked
Witches
,
as
an
infallible
sign
of
their
Guilt
,
is
not
easy
to
be
believed
.
It
is
a
thing
well
known
,
that
if
a
Person
possessed
by
an
Evil
Spirit
,
is
(
as
oft
it
so
happens
)
never
so
outragious
whilst
a
good
man
is
Praying
with
,
and
for
the
Afflicted
,
let
him
lay
his
hand
on
them
,
and
the
Evil
Spirit
is
quiet
.
I
hope
this
is
no
evidence
of
any
Covenant
,
or
voluntary
Communion
between
the
Good
man
that
is
Praying
and
the
Evil
Spi●it
.
No
more
does
the
Case
before
us
,
Evince
any
such
thing
.
4.
There
are
that
Question
the
Lawfulness
of
the
Experiment
.
For
if
this
healing
power
in
the
Witch
is
not
a
Divine
but
a
Diabolical
Gift
,
it
may
be
dangerous
to
meddle
too
much
with
it
.
If
the
Witch
may
be
ordered
to
touch
Afflicted
Persons
in
order
to
their
healing
or
recovery
,
out
of
a
sick
Fitt
,
why
may
not
the
Diseased
person
be
as
well
ordered
to
Touch
the
Witch
for
the
same
cause
?
And
if
to
touch
him
,
why
not
to
scratch
him
and
fetch
Blood
out
of
him
,
which
is
but
an
harder
kind
of
Touch
?
But
as
for
this
Mr.
Perkins
doubts
not
to
call
it
,
a
Practice
of
Witchcraft
,
It
is
not
safe
to
meddle
with
any
of
the
Devils
Sacraments
or
Institutions
.
For
My
own
part
,
I
should
be
loath
to
say
to
a
man
,
that
I
knew
or
thought
was
a
Witch
,
do
you
look
on
such
a
Person
,
and
see
if
you
can
Witch
them
into
a
Fitt
.
And
there
is
such
an
Afflicted
Person
do
you
take
them
by
the
Hand
,
and
see
if
you
can
Witch
them
well
again
.
If
it
is
by
vertue
of
some
Contract
with
the
Devil
,
that
Witches
have
power
to
do
such
things
it
is
hard
to
conceive
how
they
can
be
bid
to
do
them
,
without
being
too
much
concerned
in
that
Hellish
Covenant
.
I
take
it
to
be
(
as
elsewhere
Remarkable
Providences
.
page
267.
I
have
expressed
)
a
solid
Principle
,
which
the
Learned
Sennertus
insists
on
,
Viz
.
That
they
who
force
another
to
do
that
which
he
cannot
possibly
do
,
but
by
vertue
of
a
Compact
with
the
Devil
,
have
themselves
implicitly
Communion
,
with
the
Diabolical
Covenant
.
The
Devil
is
pleased
and
honoured
,
when
any
of
his
Institutions
,
are
made
use
of
.
This
way
of
discovering
Witches
is
no
better
than
that
of
putting
the
Urine
of
the
Afflicted
Person
into
a
Bottel
that
so
the
Witch
may
be
Tormented
,
and
Discovered
.
The
Vanity
and
Superstition
of
which
practice
I
have
formerly
shewed
,
and
Testifyed
against
.
There
was
a
Conjurer
his
Name
mas
Edward
Drake
See
Mr.
Burtons
History
of
Daemons
page
136.
and
Mr.
Roberts
Narrative
of
the
Witches
in
Suffolk
.
who
taught
a
man
to
use
that
Experiment
for
the
Relief
of
his
Afflicted
Daughter
,
who
found
benefit
thereby
.
But
we
ought
not
to
practice
Witchcrafts
to
discover
Witches
,
nor
may
we
make
use
of
a
White
healing
Witch
(
as
they
call
them
)
to
find
out
a
Black
and
Bloody
one
.
And
how
did
men
first
come
to
know
that
Witches
would
be
discovered
in
such
wayes
as
these
,
which
have
been
mentioned
?
If
Satan
himself
were
the
first
discoverer
(
as
there
is
reason
to
believe
)
the
experiment
must
needs
have
deceit
in
it
.
see
Dr.
Willet
on
Exod
:
7.
Quest
.
9.
And
such
Experiments
better
become
Pagans
or
Papists
than
Professors
in
New
England
;
whereas
't
is
pleaded
,
that
such
things
are
practised
by
the
Judges
of
the
Imperial
Chamber
,
I
Reply
,
that
those
Judges
(
as
Bodia
relates
,
Lib
.
3.
Daemon
.
Cap.
6.
)
have
required
suspected
Witches
to
pronounce
over
the
afflicted
persons
,
these
words
,
I
Bless
thee
in
the
Name
of
the
Father
,
&c.
upon
which
they
have
immediately
recovered
;
but
is
the
dark
day
come
upon
us
,
that
such
Superstitions
as
these
shall
be
practised
in
New-England
.
The
Lord
Jesus
forbid
it
.
See
Baldwins
his
Testimony
against
the
Practice
of
the
Camera
Imperialis
.
Cas
.
Consc
.
L.
3.
c
.
3.
page
634.
5.
If
the
Testimony
of
a
Bewitched
or
Possessed
Person
,
is
of
Validity
as
to
what
they
see
done
to
themselves
,
then
it
is
so
as
to
others
,
whom
they
see
afflicted
no
less
then
themselves
.
But
what
they
affirm
concerning
others
,
is
not
to
be
taken
for
Evidence
.
Whence
had
they
this
Supernatural
Sight
?
It
must
needs
be
either
from
Heaven
or
from
Hell
.
If
from
Heaven
,
(
as
Elish's
Servant
and
Balaams
Ass
could
discern
Angels
)
let
their
Testimony
be
received
.
But
if
they
had
this
Knowledge
from
Hell
,
tho'
there
may
possibly
be
truth
in
what
they
affirm
,
they
are
not
legal
Witnesses
.
For
the
Law
of
God
allows
of
no
Revelation
from
any
other
Spirit
but
himself
,
Isai
.
8.
19.
It
is
a
Sin
against
God
to
make
use
of
the
Devils
help
to
know
that
which
cannot
be
otherwise
known
.
And
I
testifie
against
it
,
as
a
great
Transgression
,
which
may
justly
provoke
the
Holy
One
of
Israel
,
to
let
loose
Devils
on
the
whole
Land
.
Luk
.
4.
35.
See
Mr.
Bernards
Guide
to
Juries
in
cases
of
Witchcraft
.
p.
136
,
137
,
138.
And
Brochmand
.
Theol
.
de
Angelis
p.
227.
Altho
the
Devils
Accusations
may
be
so
far
regarded
as
to
cause
an
Enquiry
into
the
Truth
of
things
.
Job
1.
11
,
12.
&
2.
5
,
6.
yet
not
so
as
to
be
an
Evidence
or
ground
of
Conviction
.
The
Persons
,
concerning
whom
the
Question
is
,
see
things
through
Diabolical
Mediums
.
On
which
account
their
Evidence
is
not
meer
humane
Testimony
.
And
if
it
be
in
any
part
Diabolical
,
it
is
not
to
be
owned
as
Authentick
.
For
the
Devils
Testimony
ought
not
to
be
received
neither
in
whole
,
nor
in
part
.
I
am
told
by
credible
persons
,
who
say
it
is
certainly
true
,
that
a
Bewitched
Person
has
complained
that
she
was
cast
into
Fits
by
the
Look
of
a
Dog
;
and
that
she
was
no
more
able
to
bear
the
fight
of
that
Dog
,
then
of
the
person
whom
she
accused
as
Bewitching
her
.
And
that
thereupon
the
Dogg
was
shot
to
death
.
This
Dog
was
no
Devil
:
for
then
they
could
not
have
kill●d
him
.
I
s●ppose
no
one
will
say
that
Dogs
are
Witches
.
It
remains
then
that
the
casting
down
with
the
Look
is
no
infallible
sign
of
a
Witch
.
8.
It
has
always
been
said
,
that
it
is
a
difficult
thing
to
find
out
Witches
.
But
if
the
Representation
of
such
a
person
as
afflicting
,
or
the
Look
or
Touch
be
an
infallible
proof
of
the
guilt
of
Witchcraft
in
the
persons
complained
of
,
't
is
the
easiest
thing
in
the
world
to
discover
them
.
For
it
is
done
to
our
hand
,
and
there
needs
no
enquiry
into
the
matter
.
9.
Let
them
say
this
is
an
infallible
Proof
,
produce
any
word
out
of
the
Law
of
God
which
does
in
the
least
countenance
that
Assertion
.
The
Word
of
God
instructs
Jurors
and
Judges
to
proceed
upon
clear
humane
Testimony
.
Deut
.
35.
30.
But
the
word
no
where
giveth
us
the
least
Intimation
,
that
every
one
is
a
Witch
,
at
whose
Look
the
Bewitched
person
shall
fall
into
Fits
.
Nor
yet
that
any
other
means
should
be
used
for
the
discovery
of
Witches
,
then
what
may
be
used
for
the
finding
out
of
Murderers
,
Adulterers
,
and
other
Criminals
.
10.
Sometimes
Antipathies
in
Nature
have
strange
and
unaccountable
Effects
.
I
have
read
of
a
man
that
at
the
sight
of
his
own
Son
,
who
was
no
Wizzard
would
fall
into
Fits
.
There
are
that
find
in
their
Natures
an
averseness
to
some
persons
whom
they
never
saw
before
,
of
which
they
can
give
no
better
an
account
then
he
in
Martial
.
Concerning
Sabidius
.
Non
Amo
te
Sabidi
,
nec
possum
dicere
quare
.
That
some
Persons
at
the
sight
of
Bruit-Creatures
Cats
,
Spiders
,
&c.
Nay
,
at
the
sight
of
Cheeses
,
Milk
,
Apples
,
will
fall
into
Fitts
,
is
too
well
known
to
be
denied
.
Pensingius
in
his
Learned
Discourse
De
Pulvere
Sympathatico
.
P.
128.
Saith
,
there
was
one
in
the
City
of
Groning
that
could
not
bear
the
sight
of
a
Swines
Head
.
And
that
he
knew
another
who
was
not
able
to
look
on
the
Picture
thereof
.
Amatus
Lusitanus
speaks
of
one
that
at
the
sight
of
a
Rose
would
swoon
away
.
This
proveth
that
the
Falling
into
a
Fitt
,
at
the
Sight
of
another
is
not
always
a
sign
of
Witchcraft
.
It
may
proceed
from
Nature
and
the
Power
of
Imagination
To
conclude
;
judicious
Casuists
Ames
.
Cas
.
Consc
.
L.
4.
C.
23.
have
determined
,
that
to
make
use
of
those
Media
to
come
to
the
knowledge
of
any
matter
,
which
have
no
such
power
in
them
by
Nature
,
nor
by
Divine
Institution
,
is
an
Implicit
going
to
the
Devil
to
make
a
Discovery
:
Now
there
is
no
Natural
Power
in
the
look
or
touch
of
a
Person
to
bewitch
another
.
Nor
is
this
by
Divine
Institution
the
means
whereby
Witchcraft
is
Discovered
.
Therefore
it
is
an
unwarrantable
practise
.
We
proceed
now
to
the
third
Case
Proposed
to
Consideration
,
If
the
things
which
have
been
mentioned
are
not
infallible
Proofs
of
Guilt
in
the
Accused
party
,
it
is
then
Queried
,
Whether
there
are
any
Discoveries
of
this
Crime
,
which
Jurors
and
Judges
may
with
a
safe
Conscience
proceod
upon
to
the
Conviction
and
Condemnation
of
the
Persons
under
Suspicion
?
Let
me
here
premise
two
things
,
1.
The
evidence
in
this
Crime
ought
to
be
as
clear
as
in
any
other
Crimes
of
a
Capital
Nature
.
The
word
of
God
does
no
where
intimate
,
that
a
less
clear
evidence
,
or
that
fewer
or
other
witnesses
may
be
taken
as
sufficient
to
convict
a
man
of
Sorcery
,
which
would
not
be
enough
to
convict
him
were
he
charged
with
another
evill
worthy
of
Death
.
Numb
;
35.
30.
if
we
may
not
take
the
Oath
of
a
distracted
person
or
of
a
possessed
person
in
a
case
of
Murder
,
Theft
,
Felony
of
any
sort
,
then
neither
may
we
do
it
in
the
Case
of
witchcraft
.
2.
Let
me
premise
this
also
,
that
there
have
been
wayes
of
trying
witches
long
used
in
many
Nations
,
Especially
in
the
dark
times
of
Paganism
and
Popety
which
the
righteous
God
never
approved
of
.
But
which
as
(
judicious
Mr
Perkins
expresseth
it
in
plain
English
)
were
invented
by
the
Devil
,
that
so
Innocent
Persons
might
be
condemned
,
and
some
notorious
witches
escape
.
Yea
,
many
superstitions
and
Magical
experiments
have
been
used
to
try
witches
by
.
Of
this
sort
is
that
of
scratching
the
witch
,
or
seething
the
urin
of
the
Bewitched
person
,
or
making
a
witch-cake
with
that
urine
.
And
that
Trial
of
putting
their
hands
into
scalding
water
,
to
see
if
it
will
not
hurt
them
.
And
that
of
●●●king
an
Awle
under
the
seat
of
the
suspected
party
,
yea
,
and
that
way
of
discovering
witches
by
tying
theit
hands
and
feet
,
and
casting
them
on
the
water
,
to
try
whether
they
will
sink
or
swim
.
I
did
publickly
bear
my
Testimony
against
this
superstition
in
a
Book
Printed
at
Boston
Eight
years
past
.
I
hear
that
of
late
some
in
a
Neighbour
Colony
have
been
playing
with
this
diabolical
invention
.
It
is
to
be
Lamented
that
in
such
a
Land
of
uprightness
as
New-England
once
was
,
a
practice
which
Protestant
writers
generally
condemn
as
sinful
,
and
which
the
more
sober
and
Learned
men
amongst
Papists
themselves
have
not
only
judged
unlawful
but
(
to
express
it
in
their
owne
Terms
)
to
be
no
less
than
a
Mortal
Sin
,
should
ever
be
heard
of
.
Were
it
not
that
the
Coming
of
Christ
to
judge
tee
earth
draweth
near
,
I
should
think
that
such
Practises
are
an
unhappy
omen
that
the
Devil
and
Pagans
will
get
these
dark
Territories
into
their
possession
again
.
But
that
I
may
not
be
thought
to
have
no
Reason
for
my
calling
the
impleaded
Experiment
into
Question
,
I
have
these
these
things
further
to
alledge
against
it
.
1.
It
has
been
rejected
long
agon
,
by
Christian
Nations
as
a
thing
Superstitious
and
diabolical
.
In
Italy
and
Spain
it
is
wholly
disused
.
And
Delrio
.
Disquiss
.
Magic
.
pag
.
642.
in
the
Low
Countreys
,
and
in
France
,
where
the
Judges
are
Men
of
Learning
.
In
some
parts
of
Germany
old
Paganish
Customs
are
observed
more
then
in
other
Countreys
,
nevertheless
all
the
Malderus
d●
Magia
:
cap
.
10.
dub
.
11.
Accademies
throughout
Germany
have
disapproved
of
this
way
of
Purgation
.
2
The
Devil
is
in
it
.
All
Superstition
is
from
him
.
And
when
secret
things
,
or
Latent
Crimes
,
are
discovered
by
Superstitious
practices
,
some
Compact
and
Communion
with
the
Devil
is
the
Cause
of
it
,
as
Austin
De
Doctr
:
christiana
.
Lib
.
2
:
Cap
:
20.
22.
has
truly
intimated
.
And
so
it
is
here
-
For
if
a
Witch
cannot
be
drowned
,
this
must
proceed
either
from
some
natural
cause
,
which
it
doth
not
,
for
it
is
against
nature
for
humane
Bodies
,
when
hands
and
feet
are
tyed
,
not
to
sink
under
the
water
.
Besides
,
they
that
plead
for
this
superstition
,
say
that
if
Witches
happen
to
be
Condemned
for
some
other
Crime
and
not
for
Witchcraft
,
they
will
not
swim
like
a
Cork
above
Water
,
which
cause
sheweth
that
the
cause
of
this
Natation
is
not
Physical
.
And
if
not
,
then
either
it
must
proceed
from
a
Divine
Miracle
to
save
a
Witch
from
Drowning
;
or
lastly
,
it
must
be
a
Diabolical
Wonder
.
This
superstitious
Experiment
is
commonly
known
by
the
Name
of
,
The
Vulgar
Probation
,
because
it
was
never
appointed
by
any
lawful
Authority
,
but
from
the
Suggestion
of
the
Devil
taken
up
by
the
rude
Rabble
.
And
some
De●●i
.
et
●●lder●●
learned
men
are
of
Opinion
,
that
the
first
Explorator
(
being
a
White
Witch
)
did
Explicitly
covenant
with
the
Devil
,
that
he
should
discover
Latent
Crimes
in
this
way
:
And
that
it
is
by
vertue
of
that
first
Contract
that
the
Devil
goeth
to
work
to
keep
his
servants
from
sinking
,
when
this
Ceremony
of
his
ordaining
is
used
.
Moreover
,
we
know
that
Diabolus
est
Dei
Simia
,
the
Devil
seeks
to
imitate
Divine
Miracles
.
We
read
in
Ecclesiastical
Story
,
that
some
of
the
Martyrs
when
they
were
by
Persecutors
ordered
to
be
drowned
,
prov'd
to
be
immersible
.
This
Miracle
would
the
Devil
imitate
in
causing
Witches
,
who
are
his
Martyrs
not
to
sink
when
they
are
cast
into
the
Waters
.
3.
This
way
of
Purgation
is
of
the
same
nature
with
the
old
Ordeals
of
the
Pagans
.
If
men
were
accused
with
any
crime
,
to
clear
their
innocency
they
were
to
take
an
hot
Iron
into
their
hands
,
or
to
suffer
scalding
water
to
be
poured
down
their
throats
,
&
if
they
re●ived
no
hurt
thereby
they
were
acquitted
.
This
was
the
Devils
invention
,
and
many
times
(
as
the
Devil
Would
have
it
)
they
that
submitted
to
these
Trials
,
suffered
no
Inconvenience
.
Nevertheless
,
it
is
astonishing
to
think
what
innocent
Blood
has
been
shed
in
the
World
by
means
of
this
Satanical
Device
.
Witches
have
often
(
as
In
malleo
malleficarum
:
p.
421.
Sprenger
observes
)
desired
that
they
might
stand
or
fall
by
this
Tryal
by
hot
Iron
,
and
sometimes
come
off
well
.
Indeed
,
this
Ordeal
was
used
in
other
Cases
and
not
in
Cases
of
Witchcraft
only
.
And
so
was
the
Vulgar
Probation
by
casting
into
the
Water
practiced
upon
persons
accused
Menna
de
purgatione
vulgari
—
cap-ult
.
with
other
Crimes
as
well
as
that
of
Witchcraft
.
How
it
came
to
be
restrained
to
that
of
Witchcraft
,
I
cannot
tell
.
It
is
as
Supernatural
for
a
Body
whose
hands
and
feet
are
tyed
to
Swim
above
the
Water
,
as
it
is
for
their
hands
not
to
feel
a
red
hot
Iron
.
If
the
one
of
these
Ordeals
is
lawful
to
be
used
,
then
so
is
the
other
too
.
But
as
for
the
fiery
Ordeal
it
is
rejected
and
exploded
out
of
the
World
;
for
the
same
reason
then
the
Tryal
by
Water
should
be
so
.
4.
It
is
a
Tempting
of
God
when
men
put
the
Innocency
of
their
Fellow-Creatures
upon
such
Tryals
.
To
desire
the
Almighty
to
shew
a
Miracle
to
clear
the
Innocent
,
or
to
Convict
the
guilty
is
a
most
Presumptuous
Tempting
of
him
.
Was
it
not
a
Miracle
when
Peter
was
kept
from
Sinking
under
the
Water
by
the
Omnipotency
of
Christ
.
As
for
Satan
,
we
know
that
his
ambition
is
to
make
his
Servants
believe
that
his
Power
is
equal
to
Gods
,
and
that
therefore
he
can
preserve
whom
he
pleaseth
.
I
have
read
Caesarius
Lib
.
9.
of
certain
Magicians
,
who
were
seen
walking
on
the
Water
.
If
then
Guilty
persons
shall
Float
on
the
Waters
,
either
it
is
the
Devil
that
causeth
them
to
do
so
,
(
as
no
doubt
it
is
)
and
what
have
men
to
do
to
set
the
Devil
on
work
;
or
else
it
is
a
divine
Miracle
,
like
that
of
Peters
not
Sinking
,
or
that
of
the
Iron
that
Swam
at
the
word
of
Elisha
.
And
shall
men
try
whether
God
will
work
a
Miracle
to
make
a
Discovery
?
If
a
Crime
cannot
be
found
out
but
by
Miracle
,
it
is
not
for
any
Judge
on
Earth
to
usurp
that
Judgment
which
is
reserved
for
the
Divine
Throne
.
5.
This
pretended
Gift
of
Immersibility
attending
Witches
is
a
most
fallible
deceitful
thing
.
For
many
a
Witch
has
sunk
under
the
water
.
God●lmannus
De
Lamijs
.
L.
3
;
c
.
4.
giveth
an
account
of
six
notorious
and
clearly
convicted
Witches
,
that
when
they
were
brought
to
their
vulgar
Probation
,
sunk
down
under
the
water
like
other
persons
;
Althusius
affirms
the
like
concerning
others
in
the
(
i
)
Bohemian
History
it
is
related
that
Uratslaus
the
King
of
Bohemia
,
extirpated
Witches
out
of
his
Kingdom
,
some
of
which
he
delivered
to
the
Ax
,
others
of
them
to
the
Fire
,
and
others
of
them
he
caused
to
be
Drowned
.
If
Witches
are
immensible
,
how
came
they
to
dye
by
drowning
in
Bohemia
?
Besides
,
it
has
sometimes
been
known
that
persons
who
have
floated
on
the
water
when
the
Hangman
has
made
the
Experiment
on
them
,
have
sunk
down
like
a
Stone
,
when
others
have
made
the
Trial
.
6.
The
Reasons
commonly
alledged
for
this
Superstition
are
of
no
moment
.
It
is
said
they
hate
the
water
;
whereas
they
have
many
times
desired
that
they
might
be
cast
on
the
water
in
order
to
their
purgation
.
It
is
alledged
,
that
water
is
used
in
Baptism
,
therefore
Witches
swim
.
A
weak
Phansy
.
All
the
water
in
the
world
is
not
consecrated
Water
.
Cannot
Witches
eat
Bread
or
drink
Wine
,
notwithstanding
those
Elements
are
made
use
of
in
the
Blessed
Sacrament
.
But
(
say
some
)
the
Devils
by
sucking
of
them
make
them
so
light
that
the
water
bears
them
.
Whereas
some
Witches
are
twice
as
heavy
as
many
an
innocent
Person
.
Well
,
but
then
they
are
Possessed
with
the
Devil
.
Suppose
so
;
Is
the
Devil
afraid
if
they
should
sink
,
that
he
should
be
drowned
with
them
?
But
why
then
(
b
)
Dubravius
Hist
.
Cohem
.
Lib
.
8.
were
the
Gadarens
Hogs
drowned
when
the
Devil
was
in
them
?
These
things
being
premised
,
I
answer
the
Question
Affirmatively
.
There
are
Proofs
for
the
Conviction
of
Witches
which
Jurors
may
with
a
safe
Conscience
proceed
upon
,
so
as
to
bring
them
in
Guilty
.
The
Scripture
which
saith
,
Thou
shalt
not
suffer
a
Witch
to
live
,
clearly
implies
that
some
in
the
world
may
be
known
and
proved
to
be
Witches
.
For
until
they
be
so
,
they
may
and
must
be
suffered
to
live
.
Moreover
we
find
in
Scripture
that
some
have
been
convicted
and
executed
for
Witches
.
For
Saul
cut
off
those
that
had
familiar
Spirits
,
and
the
Wizzards
out
of
the
Land
,
1
Sam
.
28.
9.
It
may
be
wondred
that
Saul
who
did
like
him
that
said
,
Flectere
si
nequeo
Superos
Acher●nta
Movebo
,
should
cause
the
Wizzards
in
the
land
to
be
put
to
death
.
The
Jewish
Rabbies
say
,
the
reason
was
because
those
Wizzards
foretold
that
David
should
be
King
.
It
is
(
as
Mr.
Gaul
In
his
Cases
about
Witchcraft
p.
181.
observes
)
the
opinion
of
some
learned
Protestants
,
that
Saul
in
his
Zeal
did
overdo
.
And
that
under
the
Pretext
So
Docton
Willet
conjectures
on
1
Sam
.
21.
1.
of
Witches
he
slew
the
Gibeonites
,
for
which
that
Judgment
followed
..
2
Sam
.
21.
1.
Neither
(
saith
Mr.
Gaule
)
want
we
the
storied
Examples
of
Gods
Judgments
upon
those
that
defamed
,
prosecured
and
executed
them
for
Witches
that
indeed
were
none
.
But
we
have
in
the
Scripture
the
Example
of
a
better
Man
than
Saul
to
encourage
us
to
make
Enquiry
after
Wizzards
&
Witches
in
order
to
their
Conviction
and
Execution
.
This
did
the
rarest
King
that
ever
lived
,
cause
to
be
done
,
Viz
.
Josiah
.
2
Kings
23.
24.
The
Workers
with
Familiar
Spirits
and
the
Wizzards
,
that
were
spied
in
the
Land
of
Judah
,
did
Josiah
put
away
,
that
he
might
perform
the
words
of
the
Law
.
It
seems
there
were
some
that
sought
to
hide
those
Workers
of
Iniquity
,
but
that
incomparable
King
spied
them
out
,
and
rid
the
Land
&
the
World
of
them
.
Q.
But
then
the
Enquiry
is
,
What
is
sufficient
Proof
?
A.
This
Case
has
been
with
great
Judgment
answered
by
several
Divines
of
our
own
,
particularly
by
Mr.
Perkins
,
and
Mr.
Bernard
.
Also
Mr.
John
Gaule
a
worthy
Minister
at
Staughton
in
the
County
of
Huntington
,
has
published
a
very
Judicious
Discourse
,
called
Select
Cases
of
Conscience
touching
Witches
and
Witchcrafts
,
Printed
at
London
A.
D.
1646.
wherein
he
does
with
great
Prudence
and
Evidence
of
Scripture
▪
light
handle
this
and
other
Cases
.
Such
Jurors
as
can
obtain
those
Books
,
I
would
advise
them
to
read
and
seriously
as
in
the
fear
of
God
to
Consider
them
.
And
so
far
as
they
keep
to
the
Law
and
to
the
Testimony
,
&
speak
according
to
that
Word
,
receive
the
Light
which
is
in
them
.
But
the
Books
being
now
rare
to
be
had
,
let
me
express
my
Concurrence
with
them
in
these
two
particulars
.
1.
That
a
free
and
Voluntary
Confession
of
the
Crime
made
by
tbe
Person
Suspected
and
Accused
after
Examination
,
is
●
sufficient
ground
of
Conviction
.
Indeed
,
if
Persons
are
Distracted
or
under
the
Power
of
Phrenetick
Melancholy
that
alters
the
case
.
But
the
Jurors
that
examine
them
,
and
their
Neighbours
that
know
them
may
easily
determine
that
case
.
Or
if
Confession
be
v.
Bodin
Daemonomania
.
Lib
.
4.
extorted
,
the
Evidence
is
not
so
clear
and
Convictive
.
But
if
any
Persons
out
of
Remorse
of
Conscience
,
or
from
a
Touch
of
God
on
their
Spirits
,
confess
and
shew
their
Deeds
,
as
the
Converted
Magicians
in
Ephesus
did
Act.
19.
18
,
19.
Nothing
can
be
more
clear
.
Suppose
a
man
to
be
suspected
for
Murder
,
or
for
Committing
a
Rape
,
or
the
like
Nefandous
Wickedness
,
if
he
does
freely
confess
the
Accusation
that
's
ground
enough
to
condemn
him
.
The
Scripture
approveth
of
Judging
the
wicked
Servant
out
of
his
own
Mouth
.
Luk
.
19.
22.
It
is
by
some
objected
that
persons
in
Discontent
may
falsely
accuse
themselves
.
I
say
,
if
they
do
so
,
and
it
cannot
be
proved
,
that
they
are
false
Accusers
of
themselves
,
they
ought
to
dye
for
their
Wickedness
,
and
their
Blood
will
be
upon
their
own
Heads
.
The
Jury
,
the
Judges
,
and
the
Land
is
clear
.
I
have
read
a
very
sad
and
amazing
and
yet
a
true
story
to
this
purpose
There
was
in
the
Year
1649
in
a
Town
called
Lauder
in
Scotland
a
certain
woman
accused
and
imprisoned
on
suspicion
of
witchcraft
.
When
others
in
the
same
prison
with
her
,
were
convicted
,
and
their
Execution
ordered
to
be
on
the
Monday
following
,
she
desired
to
speak
with
a
Minister
,
to
whom
she
declared
freely
that
she
was
guilty
of
Witchcraft
,
acknowledging
also
many
other
Crimes
committed
by
her
,
desiring
that
she
might
dye
with
the
Rest
.
She
said
particularly
that
she
had
Covenanted
with
the
Devil
,
and
was
become
his
Servant
,
about
twenty
years
before
,
and
that
he
Kissed
her
,
and
gave
her
a
Name
,
but
that
since
he
had
never
owned
her
.
Several
Ministers
who
were
jealous
that
she
accused
herself
untruly
,
charged
it
on
her
Conscience
,
telling
her
that
they
doubted
she
was
under
a
Temptation
of
the
Devil
to
destroy
her
own
Body
&
Soul
,
and
ad
juring
her
in
the
Name
of
God
to
declare
the
Truth
.
Notwithstanding
all
this
,
she
stifly
adhered
to
what
she
had
said
,
&
was
on
Monday
morning
Condemned
and
ordered
to
be
Executed
that
day
.
When
she
came
to
the
place
of
Execution
,
she
was
silent
until
the
Prayers
were
ended
.
Then
going
to
the
Stake
where
she
was
to
be
Burn't
;
she
thus
expressed
herself
,
All
you
that
see
me
this
Day
!
Know
ye
that
I
am
to
Dye
as
a
Witch
by
my
own
Confession
?
and
I
free
all
men
,
especially
the
Ministers
,
and
Magistrates
from
the
Guilt
of
my
Blood
!
I
take
it
wholly
on
my self
,
and
as
I
must
make
answer
to
the
God
of
Heaven
,
I
declare
I
am
as
free
from
Witchcraft
as
any
Child
,
but
being
accused
by
a
Malicious
Woman
,
and
imprisoned
under
the
Name
of
a
Witch
,
my
Husband
and
Friends
disowned
me
,
and
seeing
no
hope
of
ever
being
in
Credit
again
,
through
the
Temptation
of
the
Devil
,
I
made
that
Confession
to
destroy
my
own
Life
,
being
weary
of
it
,
and
chusing
rather
to
Dye
than
to
Live
.
This
her
Lamentable
Speech
did
astonish
all
the
Spectators
,
few
of
whom
could
refrain
from
Tears
.
The
Truth
of
this
Relation
(
saith
my
Mr.
Sinclare
invisible
World
.
p.
45.
And
Burton
History
of
Daemons
.
p.
122.
Author
)
is
certainly
attested
by
a
Worthy
Divine
now
living
,
who
was
an
Eye
and
an
Ear-witness
of
the
whole
matter
.
But
thus
did
that
Miserable
Creature
suffer
Death
.
And
this
was
a
just
Execution
.
When
the
Amalekite
confessed
that
he
killed
Saul
,
whom
he
he
had
no
legal
Authority
to
meddle
with
,
altho
't
is
probable
that
he
belied
himself
,
David
gave
order
for
his
Execution
,
and
said
to
him
,
Thy
Blood
be
upon
thy
head
,
for
thy
Mouth
hath
Testifyed
against
thee
.
2.
Sam
.
1.
16.
But
as
for
the
Testimony
of
Confessing
Witches
against
others
,
the
case
is
not
so
clear
as
against
themselves
.
They
are
not
such
Credible
Witnesses
,
as
in
a
Case
of
Life
and
Death
is
to
be
desired
.
It
is
beyond
dispute
,
that
the
Devil
makes
his
Witches
to
dream
strange
things
of
themselves
and
others
which
are
not
so
.
There
was
(
as
Authors
beyond
Exception
relate
)
in
appearance
a
sumptuous
feast
prepared
,
the
wine
&
meat
set
forth
in
Vessels
of
Gold
.
A
certain
person
whom
an
amorous
young
man
had
fallen
in
Love
with
was
represented
and
supposed
to
be
really
there
,
but
Appollonius
Tyanaeus
Boissard
in
vita
Apollonji
.
discovered
the
Witchery
of
the
Business
,
and
in
an
instant
all
vanished
,
and
nothing
but
dirty
Coales
were
to
be
seen
.
The
like
to
this
is
mentioned
in
the
Arausican
Council
.
There
were
certain
women
that
Imagined
,
they
road
upon
Beasts
in
the
night
,
and
that
they
had
Diana
and
Herodias
in
Company
with
them
,
besides
a
Troop
of
other
persons
.
The
Council
giveth
this
sentence
on
it
,
Satanas
qui
se
transfigurat
in
Angelum
Lucis
,
transformat
se
in
diversarum
personarum
species
,
et
mentem
quam
captivam
tenet
,
in
somnis
deludi●
.
Satan
transforms
himself
into
the
likeness
of
diverse
persons
,
and
deludes
the
Souls
that
are
his
Captives
with
Dreams
and
Pharisies
.
See
Dr.
Willet
on
1
Sam
.
28.
page
165.
What
Credit
can
be
given
to
those
that
say
they
can
turn
men
into
Horses
?
If
so
,
they
can
as
well
turn
Horses
into
men
.
But
all
the
Witches
on
earth
in
Conjunction
with
all
the
Devils
in
Hell
,
can
never
make
or
unmake
a
rational
Soul
;
and
then
they
cannot
transform
a
Bruit
into
a
man
,
nor
a
man
into
a
Bruit
.
So
that
this
Transmutation
is
Phantastical
.
The
Devil
may
,
and
often
does
impose
on
the
Imaginations
of
his
Witches
and
Vassals
,
that
they
believe
themselves
to
be
Converted
into
Beasts
,
and
reverted
into
men
again
.
As
Nebucadnezzar
whilest
under
the
Power
of
a
Daemon
really
imagined
himself
to
be
an
Ox
,
and
would
lye
out
of
Doors
and
eat
Grass
.
The
Devil
has
inflicted
on
many
a
man
the
Disease
called
Lycanthropia
,
from
whence
they
have
made
Lamentable
Complaints
of
their
being
Wolves
.
In
a
word
,
there
is
no
more
Reality
in
what
many
Witches
confess
of
strange
things
seen
or
done
by
them
whilest
Satan
had
them
in
his
full
Power
,
than
there
is
in
Lucian's
Ridiculous
Fable
of
his
being
bewitched
into
an
Asse
,
and
what
strange
Feats
he
then
played
.
So
that
what
such
persons
relate
concerning
Persons
and
Things
at
Witch-meetings
,
ought
not
to
be
received
with
too
much
Credulity
.
I
could
mention
dismal
Instances
of
Innocent
Blood
which
has
been
shed
by
means
of
the
Lies
of
some
confessing
Witches
.
There
is
a
very
sad
Story
mentioned
in
the
Preface
to
the
Relation
of
the
Witchcrafts
in
Sweedland
,
how
that
in
the
year
16●6
.
at
Stockh●lm
,
a
young
woman
accused
her
own
Mother
(
who
had
indeed
been
a
very
bad
woman
,
but
not
guilty
of
Witchcraft
,
and
Swore
that
she
had
carried
her
to
the
Nocturnal
meetings
of
Witches
,
upon
which
the
Mother
was
burnt
to
death
.
Soon
after
the
Daughter
came
crying
and
howling
before
the
Judges
in
open
Court
,
declaring
that
to
be
revenged
on
her
Mother
for
an
Offence
received
,
she
had
falsely
accused
her
with
a
Crime
which
she
was
not
guilty
of
:
for
which
she
also
was
justly
Executed
.
A
most
wicked
man
in
France
,
freely
Confessed
himself
to
be
a
Magician
;
and
accused
many
others
whose
Lives
were
thereupon
taken
from
them
,
and
a
whole
Province
had
like
to
have
been
ruined
thereby
;
but
the
imposture
was
discovered
.
The
Confessing
pretended
Wizzard
was
burnt
at
Paris
in
the
year
1668.
I
shall
only
take
notice
further
of
an
awful
Example
mentioned
by
A.
B.
Spotswood
in
his
History
of
Scotland
.
p.
449.
His
words
are
these
.
This
Summer
(
Viz
.
Anno.
1597.
)
There
was
a
great
business
for
the
Tryal
of
Witches
;
amongst
others
one
Margaret
Atkin
being
apprehended
on
Suspicion
and
threatned
with
Torture
,
did
confess
herself
Guilty
.
Being
Examined
touching
her
Associates
in
that
Trade
,
she
named
a
few
,
and
perceiving
her
Delations
find
Credit
,
made
offer
to
detect
all
of
that
sort
,
and
to
purge
the
Country
of
them
;
so
she
might
have
her
Life
granted
.
For
the
reason
of
her
Knowledge
,
she
said
,
that
they
had
a
secret
mark
all
of
that
sort
in
their
Eyes
,
whereby
she
could
surely
tell
,
how
soon
she
Looked
upon
any
,
whether
they
were
Witches
or
not
.
And
in
this
,
she
was
so
readily
believed
,
that
for
the
space
of
3
or
4
Moneths
she
was
carried
from
Town
to
Town
to
make
Discoveries
in
that
kind
.
Many
were
brought
in
Question
by
her
Delations
,
especially
at
Glasgow
,
where
diverse
Innocent
women
,
through
the
Credulity
of
the
Minister
Mr.
John
Cowper
,
were
condemned
and
put
to
death
.
In
the
end
she
was
found
to
be
a
meer
deceiver
,
and
sent
back
to
Fife
,
where
she
was
first
apprehended
.
At
her
Tryal
she
Affirmed
all
to
be
false
that
she
had
confessed
of
her self
or
others
,
and
persisted
in
this
to
her
death
,
which
made
many
fore
think
their
too
great
Forwardness
that
way
,
and
moved
the
King
to
recal
his
Commissions
given
out
against
such
persons
,
discharging
all
Proceedings
against
them
,
except
in
case
of
Voluntary
Confession
,
till
a
solid
Order
should
be
taken
by
the
Estates
touching
the
form
that
should
be
kept
in
their
Tryal
.
Thus
that
famous
Historian
2
If
two
credible
Persons
shall
affirm
upon
Oath
that
they
have
seen
the
Party
accused
speaking
such
words
,
or
doing
things
which
none
but
such
as
have
Familiarity
with
the
Devil
ever
did
or
can
do
,
that
's
a
sufficient
Ground
for
Conviction
.
Some
are
ready
to
say
,
that
Wizzards
are
not
so
unwise
as
to
do
such
things
in
the
Sight
or
Hearing
of
others
.
But
it
is
certain
that
they
have
very
often
been
known
to
do
so
.
How
often
have
they
been
seen
by
others
using
Inchantments
?
Conjuring
to
raise
Storms
?
And
have
been
heard
calling
upon
their
Familiar
Spirits
?
And
have
been
known
to
use
Spells
and
Charms
?
And
to
shew
in
a
Glass
or
in
a
Shew-stone
persons
absent
?
And
to
reveal
Secrets
which
could
not
be
discovered
but
by
the
Devil
?
And
have
not
men
been
seen
to
do
things
which
are
above
humane
strength
that
no
man
living
could
do
,
without
Diabolical
Assistances
?
Claudia
was
seen
by
witnesses
enough
,
to
draw
a
Ship
which
no
humane
strength
could
move
.
Tuccia
a
Vestal
Virgin
was
seen
to
carry
water
in
a
Sieve
.
The
Devil
never
assists
men
to
do
supernatural
things
undesired
.
When
therefore
such
like
things
shall
be
Testified
against
the
accused
party
not
by
Spe●●res
which
are
Devils
in
the
Shape
of
persons
either
living
or
dead
,
but
by
real
men
or
women
who
may
be
credited
,
it
is
proof
enough
that
such
an
one
has
that
Conversation
and
Correspondence
with
the
Devil
as
that
he
or
she
,
whoever
they
be
,
ought
to
be
exterminated
from
amongst
men
.
This
notwithstanding
,
I
will
add
;
It
were
better
that
Ten
Suspected
Witches
should
escape
,
than
that
one
Innocent
Person
should
be
Condemned
.
That
is
an
old
saying
and
true
,
Prestat
reum
nocentem
absolvi
,
quam
ex
prohibitis
Indiciis
&
illegitima
probatione
condemnari
'
It
is
better
that
a
Guilty
Person
should
be
ABSOLVED
,
than
that
he
should
without
sufficient
ground
of
Conviction
be
condemned
.
I
had
rather
judge
a
Witch
to
be
an
honest
woman
,
than
judge
an
honest
woman
as
a
witch
.
The
Word
of
God
directs
men
not
to
proceed
to
the
Execution
of
the
most
capital
offenders
,
untill
such
time
as
upon
searching
diligently
the
matter
is
found
to
be
a
Trutb
,
and
the
thing
certain
.
Deu
.
13.
14.
15.
An
Acquaintance
Mr.
Morden
in
his
Geogra
.
Phy
.
p.
577.
of
mine
at
London
in
his
description
of
New-England
declares
,
that
as
to
their
Religion
,
the
People
there
are
like
Mr.
Perkins
.
It
is
no
dishonour
to
us
,
if
that
be
found
true
.
I
am
sorry
that
any
amongst
us
begin
to
slight
so
great
a
man
,
whom
the
most
Voetius
Biblioth
.
L
:
2
Laecus
in
Compend
.
Histor
.
Learned
in
Forreign
Lands
,
speak
of
with
Admiration
,
on
the
account
of
his
polite
and
acute
Judgment
.
It
is
a
grave
and
good
Advice
which
he
giveth
in
his
Discourse
of
Witchcrafts
.
(
Chap
7.
Sect
.
2
)
wherewith
I
conclude
.
I
would
therefore
wish
and
advise
all
Jurors
who
give
their
Verdict
upon
Life
and
Death
in
Courts
of
Assizes
,
to
take
good
heed
that
as
they
be
diligent
in
zeal
of
Gods
Glory
,
and
the
good
of
his
Church
,
in
detecting
of
Witches
,
by
all
sufficient
and
lawful
means
,
so
likewise
they
would
be
careful
what
they
do
,
and
not
to
Condemn
any
party
Suspected
upon
bare
Presumptions
,
without
sound
and
sufficient
proofs
,
that
they
be
not
guilty
through
their
own
Rashness
of
Shedding
Innocent
Blood
.
Boston
,
New-England
,
Octob
.
3.
1692.