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Cases of conscience concerning evil spirits personating men, witchcrafts, infallible proofs of guilt in…
Cases of conscience concerning evil spirits personating men, witchcrafts, infallible proofs of guilt in such as are accused with that crime. All considered according to the Scriptures, history, experience, and the judgment of many learned men. / By Increase Mather, president of Harvard College, at Cambridge, and teacher of a church at Boston in New-England. ; [Six lines of quotations]
Boston printed, : and sold by Benjamin Harris at the London Coffee-House., 1693
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.
Many were brought in Question by her Delations, especially at Glasgow, where diverse Innocent women, through the Credulity of the Minister Mr. John Cowper, were condemned and put to death. In the end she was found to be a mere deceiver, and sent back to Fife, where she was first apprehended. At her Trial she Affirmed all to be false that she had confessed of her self or others, and persisted in this to her death, which made many fore-think their too great Forwardness that way, and moved the King to recall his Commissions given out against such persons, discharging all Proceedings against them, except in case of Voluntary Confession, till a solid Order should be taken by the Estates touching the form that should be kept in their Trial. Thus that famous Historian
Many were brought in Question by her Delations, especially at Glasgow, where diverse Innocent women, through the Credulity of the Minister Mr. John Cowper, were condemned and put to death. In the end she was found to be a meer deceiver, and sent back to Fife, where she was first apprehended. At her Tryal she Affirmed all to be false that she had confessed of her self or others, and persisted in this to her death, which made many fore-think their too great Forwardness that way, and moved the King to recal his Commissions given out against such persons, discharging all Proceedings against them, except in case of Voluntary Confession, till a solid Order should be taken by the Estates touching the form that should be kept in their Tryal. Thus that famous Historian
2If two credible Persons shall affirm upon Oath that they have […] the Party accused speaking such words, or doing things which none but such as have Familiarity ⟨p. 66⟩with the Devil ever did or can do, that's a sufficient Ground for Conviction.
2If two credible Persons shall affirm upon Oath that they have 〈…〉 the Party accused speaking such words, or doing things which none but such as have Familiarity