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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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§ 1. Wonders therefore be of two sorts; either true and plain, or lying ⟨p. 13⟩and deceitful.
§ 1. Wonders therefore be of two sorts; either true and plaine, or lying ⟨p. 13⟩and deceitfull.
A true wonder is a rare work, done by the power of God simply, either above, or against the power of nature, and it is properly called a miracle. The Scripture is plentiful in examples of this kind. Of this sort, was the dividing of the read sea, and making it dry land by a mighty east wind, that the children of Israel might pass through it, Exod. 14. 21. For though the East wind be natural of great force to move the waters, and to dry the earth; yet to part the sea asunder, and to make the waters to stand as walls on each side, and the bottom of the sea as a pavement, this is a work simply above the natural power of any wind, and therefore is a miracle. Again, such were the wonders done by Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh in Egypt, one whereof, in stead of many, was the turning of Aaron's rod into a serpent, a work truly miraculous. For it is above the power of natural generation, that the substance of on creature should be really turned into the substance of another, as the substance of a ⟨p. 14⟩rood into the substance of a serpent. Of the like kind, were the standing of the Sun in the firmament without moving in his course, for a whole day, losh. 10. 13. the going back of the Sun in the firmament ten degrees, 2. King. 20. 11. the preservation of the three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in the midst of the hot fiery furnace, Dan. 3. 25