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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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Sect. IV.
Hitherto I have showed the first kind of Divination by means, both true and forged. Now followeth the second; practised without means.
Hitherto I haue shewed the first kind of Diuination by meanes, both true and forged. Now followeth the second; practised without meanes.
Divination without means, is the foretelling and revealing of things to come, by the alone and immediate assistance of a familiar spirit. This kind is mentioned and expressly forbidden, Levit. 19. 31. Ye shall not regard them that work with spirits. Again, Levit. 20. 6. If any turn after such as work with spirits, to go a whoring after them, I will set my face against that person, and will cut him off from among his people. So, Deut. 18. 11. Let none be found among you that consulteth with spirits. In which places the holy Ghost useth the word Ob, which more properly signifieth a spirit, or devil, in which sense it is taken in Levit. 20. 27. and in 1. Sam 28. 8. And by reason of the league which is between the Witch and the devil, the same is also given to the Witch, that worketh by the devil: and therefore