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Some miscellany observations on our present debates respecting witchcrafts, in a dialogue between S.…
Some miscellany observations on our present debates respecting witchcrafts, in a dialogue between S. & B. / By P.E. and J.A.
printed by William Bradford for Hezekiah Usher, 1692
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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.
S. But what if God will Extraordinarily use Devils in this affair? shall we reject his Providence in it?
B. This is a thing which I am not ready to believe in this Case; and that because it is an insufficient Medium to attain the end, and that for the Second reason I named, Viz. it doth not affect the person accused.
S. 'You said so indeed; but it needs proof.
B. When I say it affects him not; I principally intend, it will not amount to an evidence against him; and if so, what discovery is there in it?
S. Do you not believe that his Spectre is seen afflicting by the person afflicted?