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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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I answer; there were two times when God suffered the dead to be raised up again; either at the planting of his Church, or at the restoring and establishing of it, when it was razed to the foundation. Thus at the restoring of religion in Elijah and Elisha's times, the son of the Shunamitish woman, 2. King. 4. 34. and the widows son at Sarephta, 1. King. 17. 21. were raised. Again, when God would restore his Church, which was fallen to Idolatry about the death of Elisha, he caused the like miracle to be wrought in the reviving of a dead man by the touching of Elisha's dead carcass in the grave, thereby to assure the people of their deliverance, and to cause them to embrace the doctrine of the Prophet after his death, which in his life they had contemned. In like manner at the establishing of the Gospel in the new ⟨p. 117⟩Testament, it pleased Christ to raise up Moses and Elijah, and to make them known to his Disciples by extraordinary revelation, that they might believe that the doctrine which he preached was not new, but the same in substance with that which was recorded in the Law and the Prophets, both which were represented by Moses and Elijah. So also he wrought the miracle upon Lazarus, the widows son, and lairus daughter, thereby to show the power of his Godhead, the truth of his calling, the testimony of his Doctrine: lastly, to make known the power of his resurrection, he caused some to rise and appear to others, when he himself rose again. But out of these two times we have neither warrant nor example, that God suffered the dead to be raised up. Wherefore those instances will not any way confirm Samuel's appearing, which indeed was not true, but counterfeit and forged by the Devil himself.
I answer; there were two times when God suffered the dead to be raised vp againe; either at the planting of his Church, or at the restoring and establishing of it, when it was rased to the foundation. Thus at the restoring of religion in Elias and Elishaes times, the sonne of the Shunamitish woman, 2. King. 4. 34. and the widowes sonne at Sarephta, 1. King. 17. 21. were raised. Againe, when God would restore his Church, which was fallen to Idolatrie about the death of Elisha, he caused the like miracle to be wrought in the reuiuing of a dead man by the touching of Elishaes dead carkeise in the graue, thereby to assure the people of their deliuerance, and to cause them to embrace the doctrine of the Prophet after his death, which in his life they had contemned. In like manner at the establishing of the Gospel in the new