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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
No title page in the transcription: set from the catalogue record.
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.
B. That is one of your mistakes; and you labour of a great many in your judging of us: We acknowledge the Afflicted Persons to be Humane; and if they are Witnesses at all, they must be Humane Witnesses; but I trust you will see your Error anon.
S. But what then do you mean by the Testimony of Humane Witnesses?
B. I mean, that the Testimony it self be Humane, as well as the Witnesses; or, to speak more plain, that the Thing Testified be that which became to the knowledge of, after the manner of men.
S. 'What do you mean by that?
B. I intend, That which one man can know concerning another by his Senses, and that according to the true nature, and use of them; whatsoever comes in any other way, is either by extraordinary Revelation from God, on by the insinuation of the Devil; and what Credit is legally to be given to a thing which an Humane Person swears, merely upon the Devil, Information?