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A further account of the trials of the New-England witches with the observations of…A further account of the tryals of the New-England witches with the observations of…
A further account of the trials of the New-England witches with the observations of a person who was upon the place several days when the suspected witches were first taken into examination : to which is added, Cases of conscience concerning witchcrafts and evil spirits personating men / written at the request of the ministers of New-England by Increase Mather ...A further account of the tryals of the New-England witches with the observations of a person who was upon the place several days when the suspected witches were first taken into examination : to which is added, Cases of conscience concerning witchcrafts and evil spirits personating men / written at the request of the ministers of New-England by Increase Mather ...
London: printed for J. Dunton, 1693
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It may be wondered that Saul who did like him that said, Flectere si nequeo Superos Acherenta Movebo, should cause the Wizards in the Land to be put to death. The Jewish Rabbis say, the reason was, because those Wizards foretold that David should be King. It is (as Mr. Gaul kobserves) the Opinion of some learned Protestants, that Saul in his Zeal did over do: And that under the Pretext lof Witches he slew the Gibeonites, for which that Judgment followed, 2 Sam. 21. 1. Neither (saith Mr. Gaule) want we the storied Examples of God's Judgments upon those that defamed, prosecuted and executed them for Witches, that indeed were none. But we have in the Scripture the Example of a better Man than Saul to encourage us to make enquiry after Wizards and Witches in order to their Conviction and Execution. This did the rarest King that ever lived cause to be done, viz. Josiah, 2 Kings 23. 24. The Workers with familiar Spirits and the Wizards, that were spied in the Land of Judah, did Josiah put away, that he might perform the Words of the Law. It seems there were some that sought to hide those Workers of Iniquity, but that incomparable King spied them out, and rid the Land and the World of them.
It may be wondred that Saul who did like him that said, Flectere si nequeo Superos Acherenta Movebo, should cause the Wizzards in the Land to be put to death. The Jewish Rabbies say, the reason was, because those Wizzards foretold that David should be King. It is (as Mr. Gaul kobserves) the Opinion of some learned Protestants, that Saul in his Zeal did over do: And that under the Pretext lof Witches he slew the Gibeonites, for which that Judgment followed, 2 Sam. 21. 1. Neither (saith Mr. Gaule) want we the storied Examples of God's Judgments upon those that defamed, prosecuted and executed them for Witches, that indeed were none. But we have in the Scripture the Example of a better Man than Saul to encourage us to make enquiry after Wizzards and Witches in order to their Conviction and Execution. This did the rarest King that ever lived cause to be done, viz. Josiah,