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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.
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.
- 1Necromancy.
Divining, Prediction, or foretelling without means, is called Pythonisme.
Pythonisme is▪ when one is possessed1 with an unclean Spirit, and doth immediately use the help of the same Spirit to charm with, or to reveal, and discover secrets by. Such a one was the Damsel Pythoness, spoken of by the Acts, that by her Spirit of Divination brought her Master much gain, Acts 16. 16. Concerning this kind of Divination there is mention made, Isai 29. 4. where God threatening his judgements upon Jerusalem, saith, Thy voice shall be out of the ground, like him that hath a spirit of Divination (or a familiar Spirit) and thy talking, or speech shall whisper, or peep, or chirp out of the dust.
Pythonisme is▪ when one is possessed1 with an unclean Spirit, and doth immediatly use the help of the same Spirit to charm with, or to reveal, and discover secrets by. Such a one was the Damsel Pythoness, spoken of by the Acts, that by her Spirit of Divination brought her Master much gain,