A54381:383
An abridgement of the whole body of divinity extracted from the learned works of…
An abridgement of the whole body of divinity extracted from the learned works of that ever-famous and reverend divine, Mr. William Perkins / by Tho. Nicols.
London: printed by W.B. for Will. Hope, 1654
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Prediction, or foretelling of things by means are cheese.
Prediction, or foretelling of things by means are chese.
1. Sooth-saying, or Divining by the flying of birds, Deut. 8. 10.
2. Divination by looking into the entrails of beasts, Ezek. 21. 22.
3. Necromancy, or Conjuring,1 This is, an asking counsel at the dead, The Devil doth appear to them that thus ask counsel, in the form of the dead man, as appeareth by the story of the Witch of Endor, 1 Sam. 28. 11. 13. 14.
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