Richard Baxter's dying thoughts upon Phil. I, 23 written for his own life and…

§ 1. IX. And Satan himself, though unwillingly, hath many ways helped my belief of our Immortality and Future hopes: 1. I have had many convincing proofs of Witches, the Contracts they have made with Devils, and the Power which they have received from them^*: Beside the Volumes of Remegius, and Bodin, and the Mallei Maleficorum, Danaeus, and others, we had many score of them detected, and many executed in one Year in Suffolk and Essex ^†(about 1644.) And I have at this present a Flint Stone which was one of about 160. which were voided by the Urinary passage by a bewitched Child in Evesham (yet living); some of near an Ounce weight; which was fully proved, the Witch Executed, and the Child upon her imprisonment, freed: To pass by many others.

§ 1. IX. And Satan himself, though unwillingly, hath many ways helped my belief of our Immortality and Future hopes: 1. I have had many convincing proofs of Witches, the Contracts they have made with Devils, and the Power which they have received from them^*: Beside the Volums of Remegius, and Bodin, and the Mallei Maleficorum, Danaeus, and others, we had many score of them detected, and many executed in one Year in Suffolk and Essex ^†(about 1644.) And I have at this present a Flint Stone which was one of about 160. which were voided by the Urinary passage by a bewitched Child in Evesham (yet living); some of near an Ounce weight; which was fully proved, the Witch Executed, and the Child upon her imprisonment, freed: To pass by many others.

1. *Of this see the Second Edition by Dr. More, of Mr. Glanvile's Book of Apparitions called Atheismus Triumphatus.
2. †For the truth of this, read Mr. Fairclough's Life.