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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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TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE, SIR EDWARD COOKE Knight, Lord chief Justice of his Majesties Court of Common Pleas; Grace and peace.
TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE, SIR EDWARD COOKE Knight, Lord chiefe Iustice of his Maiesties Court of Common Pleas; Grace and peace.
Right Honourable: The word of God that only Oracle of truth, hath pointed out the Enemy of mankind, by his proper Characters, in sundry places. Our Saviour terms him, the Prince of this World; a& a bmurderer from the beginning▪ Peter compares him toc a roaring Lyon, that rangeth abroad in the earth, seeking whom he may devour. His attempts in regard of their quality, are called d[Greek or Hebrew] ▪ subtle & deep devises; yeae [Greek or Hebrew] plots exquisitely contrived, and orderly framed, as it were in Method. The meaning of the holy Ghost in these and such like attributes, is, to express that measure of policy and power, which Satan hath reserved unto himself even in the state of his Apostasy, improved by long experience, and instantly practised ⟨image 3⟩upon the son, of men, that he might set up in the world, a spiritual regiment of time, as a mean to encounter the kingdom of grace, and […] it were possible, to bring the same to ruin. To forbear instances of open force made against God and his Church by other courses, for the compassing of his dec, how skilfully he work, his own advantage, by secret opposition in the exercise of that cursed Art, which is the Subject of the present Discourse, is a point not unworthy your Honourable consideration.