An essay for the recording of illustrious providences

3. Let such practitioners think the best of themselves, they are too near a Kin to those creatures who commonly pass under the name of white Witches. They that do hurt to others by the Devils help, are called black Witches: but there are a sort of persons in the World, that will never hurt any, but only by the power of the Infernal Spirits they will un-bewitch those that seek unto them for relief: I know that by Constantius his Law, black Witches were to be Punished, and white ones indu•••d: But M. Perkins saith, that the good […] is a more horrible ⟨p. 269⟩and detestable Monster than the bad one. Balaam was a black Witch, and Simon Magus a white one. This later did more hurt by his Cures, than the former by his Curses. How persons that shall unbewitch others by putting Urine into a Bottle, or by casting Excrements into the fire, or nailing of Horse-shoes at Mens doors, can wholly clear themselves from being white Witches, I am not able to understand.

3. Let such practitioners think the best of themselves, they are too near a Kin to those creatures who commonly pass under the name of white Witches. They that do hurt to others by the Devils help, are called black Witches: but there are a sort of persons in the World, that will never hurt any, but only by the power of the Infernal Spirits they will un-bewitch those that seek unto them for relief: I know that by Constantius his Law, black Witches were to be Pnnished, and white ones indu•••d: But M. Perkins saith, that the good 〈…〉 is a more horrible ⟨p. 269⟩and detestable Monster than the bad one. Balaam was a black Witch, and Simon Magus a white one. This later did more hurt by his Cures, than the former by his Curses. How persons that shall unbewitch others by putting Urin into a Bottle, or by casting Excrements into the fire, or nailing of Horse-shoes at Mens doors, can wholly clear themselves from being white Witches, I am not able to understand.