An essay for the recording of illustrious providences

CHAP. VI.

That there are Daemons. And Possessed Persons. Signs of such. Some Mad Men are really Possessed. Notwithstanding many Fabulous Stories about Witchcrafts. That there are Witches proved by three Arguments. That Houses are sometimes troubled by Evil Spirits. Witchcraft often the cause of it. Sometimes by the Devil without Witchcraft; ordered by providence as punishment for Sin. The disturbance in Waltons House further considered, with a parallel Story. That the things related in the preceding Chapter were undoubtedly Preternatural and Diabolical.

That there are Daemons. And Possessed Persons. Signs of such. Some Mad Men are really Possessed. Notwithstanding many Fabulous Stories about Witchcrafts. That there are Witches proved by three Arguments. That Houses are sometimes troubled by Evil Spirits. Witchcraft often the cause of it. Sometimes by the Devil without Witchcraft; ordered by providence as punishment for Sin. The disturbance in Waltons House further considered, with a parallel Story. That the things related in the preceding Chapter were undoubtedly Praeternatural and Diabolical.

The Sadducees of those days being like unto Avicenna, and Averroes, and other Atheistical Philosophers in former times; say that there are no Spirits, and that all Stories concerning them are either Fabulous or to be ascribed unto natural causes. Amongst many others, the Learned Voetius (in disp. de operationibus Daemonum) has sufficiently refuted them. And as the experience of other ages and places of the World; so the things which divine providence hath permitted and ordered to come to pass amongst our selves