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A discourse of the damned art of witchcraft so far forth as it is…A discourse of the damned art of witchcraft so farre forth as it is…
A discourse of the damned art of witchcraft so far forth as it is revealed in the Scriptures, and manifest by true experience. Framed and delivered by M. William Perkins, in his ordinary course of preaching, and now published by Tho. Pickering Bachelor of Divinity, and minister of Finchingfield in Essex. Whereunto is adjoined a twofold table; one of the order and heads of the treatise; another of the texts of Scripture explained, or vindicated from the corrupt interpretation of the adversary.A discourse of the damned art of witchcraft so farre forth as it is reuealed in the Scriptures, and manifest by true experience. Framed and deliuered by M. William Perkins, in his ordinarie course of preaching, and now published by Tho. Pickering Batchelour of Diuinitie, and minister of Finchingfield in Essex. Whereunto is adioyned a twofold table; one of the order and heades of the treatise; another of the texts of Scripture explaned, or vindicated from the corrupt interpretation of the aduersarie.
Cambridge: printed by Cantrell Legge, 1610Cambridge: printed by Cantrel Legge, 1610
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• Again, by natural dreams a man may gess•ar the corruption of his own heart• ▪ and know to what sins he is most naturally inclined. For look what men do ordinarily in the day time conceive and imagine in their corrupt hearts, of the same, for the most part, they d•e corruptly dream in the night. And this is the rather to be observed, because though the wicked man shut his eyes, and stop his ears, and harden his heart, and will not take notice of his enormities by the light of the Law; yet even by his own dreams in the night, his wickedness shall be in part discovered, and his conscience thereby convinced, and he himself left in the end inexcusable before God. Now albeit ⟨p. 97⟩a man may give a probable conjecture of the premisses by natural dreams; yet no divination of things to come, whether public or private, good or bad, can be made by them, either concerning persons, families, or kingdoms. Therefore the common observations of dreams in the world, whereby men imagine things to come to pass, & accordingly foretell them by those means, are vain and superstitious, and justly so condemned in the places before named, Deut. 13. Jer. 23.
• Againe, by naturall dreames a man may gess•ar the corruption of his owne heart• ▪ and know to what sinnes he is most naturally inclined. For looke what mon doe ordinarily in the day time conceiue and imagine in their corrupt hearts, of the same, for the most part, they d•e corruptly dreame in the night. And this is the rather to be obserued, because though the wicked man shut his eyes, and stoppe his eares, and harden his heart, and will not take notice of his enormities by the light of the Law; yet euen by his owne dreames in the night, his wickednes shall be in part discouered, and his conscience thereby conuinced, and he himselfe left in the end inexcusable before God. Now albeit