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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. III.
Thirdly, I •dde▪ te••ing to the working or producing of wonders, wherein is noted the pro•er end of this art, whereby I put a further difference between it, and others that are godly and lawful.
Thirdly, I •dde▪ te••ing to the working or producing of wonders, wherein is noted the pro•er ende of this art, whereby I put a further difference betweene it, and others that are godly and lawfull.
Now if question be moved, why man should desire […] Witchcraft to work wonders […] the true and proper cause is […] first temptation, ⟨p. 9⟩whereby the devil prevailed against our first parents, had enclosed within it many sins: for the eating of the forbidden fruit, was no small or single offence, but as some have taught, contained in it the breach of every commandment of the Moral law. Amongst the rest, Satan laboured to bring them to the sin of discontentment, whereby they sought to become as Gods; that is, better then God had made them, not resting content with the condition of men. […] his sin was then learned▪ and could never since b• forgotten, but continually is derived from them to all their poster•ie, and now is become so common a corruption in the whole nature of flesh and blood, that there is scarce a man to be found; who is not originally tainted therewith as he is a man.