Parentator. Memoirs of remarkables in the life and the death of the ever-memorable Dr.…

The Neighbouring Ministers of the Province, exhibited unto the Government, an Instrument Composed by the same Hand, that under a Desire to have a stop given unto Legal Prosecutions, in a case too hard for us who dwell in Houses of Clay, and only the Methods of Religion and of Devotion kept unto, offered, that if the Afflicted might be Separated, he would singly Provided for the Accommodation of six or seven of them, that the Success of Extraordinary Prayer with Fasting might be on this Occasion waited for. In that Instrument, here was a Dissuasive against Credulity for Things only received on the Devils Authority; and against using any Test for the Trial of the Suspected, the Lawfulness whereof may be doubted among the People of GOD; and against Convicting any upon such Feeble Evidence, as the Representation of the Accused unto the Afflicted; Inasmuch as it is an Undoubted and Notorious Thing, that a Daemon may by GOD's Permission, appear even unto Ill purposes in the shape of an Innocent, yea, and a Virtuous Man; Nor can Alterations made in the Sufferers by a Look or Touch of the Accused, be an Infallible Token of Guilt, but frequently Liable to be abused by ⟨p. 166⟩the Legerdemains of the Devil. It concluded so; We know not, whether some Remarkable Affronts given to the Devils, by our Disbelieving of those Testimonies, whose whole Force and Strength is from Them alone, may not put a Period unto the Progress of a direful Calamity begun upon us, by the Accusation of so many Persons, whereof, we hope, some are yet clear from the Great Transgression laid unto their Charge.

The Neighbouring Ministers of the Province, exhibited unto the Government, an Instrument Composed by the same Hand, that under a Desire to have a stop given unto Legal Prosecutions, in a case too hard for us who dwell in Houses of Clay, and only the Methods of Religion and of Devotion kept unto, offered, that if the Afflicted might be Separated, he would singly Provided for the Accommodation of six or seven of them, that the Success of Extraordinary Prayer with Fasting might be on this Occasion waited for. In that Instrument, here was a Disswasive against Credulity for Things only received on the Devils Authority; and against using any Test for the Trial of the Suspected, the Lawfulness whereof may be doubted among the People of GOD; and against Convicting any upon such Feeble Evidence, as the Representation of the Accused unto the Afflicted; Inasmuch as it is an Undoubted and Notorious Thing, that a Daemon may by GOD's Permission, appear even unto Ill purposes in the shape of an Innocent, yea, and a Vertuous Man; Nor can Alterations made in the Sufferers by a Look or Touch of the Accused, be an Infallible Token of Guilt, but frequently Liable to be abused by