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An essay for the recording of illustrious providences
An essay for the recording of illustrious providences: wherein, an account is given of many remarkable and very memorable events, which have happened in this last age; especially in New-England. / By Increase Mather, teacher of a church at Boston in New-England. ; [Six lines of Scripture texts]
Boston: printed by Samuel Green, 1684
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.
Several Cases of Conscience considered. That it is not lawful to make use of Herbs of Plants to drive away evil Spirits. Nor of Words or Characters. An Objection answered. Whether it be lawful for Persons bewitched, to burn things or to nail Horse-shoes before their doors, or to stop Urine in Bottles, or the like, in order to the recovery of Health. The Negative proved by several Arguments. Whether it be lawful to try. Witches by casting them into the Water. Several reasons evincing the vanity of that way of Probation. Some other Superstitions witnessed against.
Several Cases of Conscience cons•dered. That it is not lawful to make use of Herbs of Plants to drive away evil Spirits. Nor of Words or Characters. An Objection answered. Whether it be lawful for Persons bewitched, to burn things or to nail Horse-shoes before their doors, or to stop Urin in Bottles, or the like, in order to the recovery of Health. The Negative proved by several Arguments. Whether it be lawful to try. Witches by casting them into the Water. Several reasons evincing the vanity of that way of Probation. Some other Superstitions witnessed against.
The preceding Relations about Witchcrafts and Diabolical Impostures give us too just occasion to make enquiry into some Cases of Conscience, respecting things of this Nature. And in the first place the Quaere may be;
THe preceding Relations about Witchcrafts and Diabolical Impostures give us too just occasion to make enquiry into some Cases of Conscience, respecting things of this Nature. And in the first place the Quaere may be;
Whether it is lawful to make use of any sort of Herbs of Plants to preserve from Witchcrafts, or from the power of Evil Spirits? The Answer unto which is; That it is in no wise lawful, but that all attempts of that nature are Magical, and Diabolical, and therefore