Demonologia : $b or, natural knowledge revealed; being an exposé of ancient and modern superstitions, credulity, fanaticism, enthusiasm, & imposture, as connected with the doctrine, caballa, and jargon, of amulets, apparitions, astrology, charms, demonology, devils, divination, dreams, deuteroscopia, effluvia, fatalism, fate, friars, ghosts, gipsies, hell, hypocrites, incantations, inquisition, jugglers, legends, magic, magicians, miracles, monks, nymphs, oracles, physiognomy, purgatory, predestForsyth, J. S.
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Demonologia : $b or, natural knowledge revealed; being an exposé of ancient and modern superstitions, credulity, fanaticism, enthusiasm, & imposture, as connected with the doctrine, caballa, and jargon, of amulets, apparitions, astrology, charms, demonology, devils, divination, dreams, deuteroscopia, effluvia, fatalism, fate, friars, ghosts, gipsies, hell, hypocrites, incantations, inquisition, jugglers, legends, magic, magicians, miracles, monks, nymphs, oracles, physiognomy, purgatory, predest
Forsyth, J. S.
Demonology; Superstition; Witchcraft
We shall now, previous to laying before our readers some of those dismal
stories of witches, wizards, apparitions, &c. of the days of yore, give
the postscript to Dr. More’s letter to the author of “Saducismus
Triumphatus;” a postscript, in fact, that might with more propriety be
styled a treatise on the subject it relates to; but the rarity of the
document, as well as its curiosity and the great learning and ingenuity
it betrays, will, we feel assured, be received as an apology for
bringing it under their view in this part of our paper, on the subject
matter it bears so strongly upon. We give it the more cheerfully as it
exemplifies certain passages of Scripture that have never been handled,
at least so well, by after-writers who have attempted the illustration.
_Witchcraft proved by the following texts of Scripture._
Exodus, c. xxii, v. 18. _Thou shalt not suffer a_ WITCH _to live_.
2 Chronicles, c. xxxiii, v. 6. _And he caused his children to pass
through the fire in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom; also he observed
times, and used_ ENCHANTMENTS, _and used_ WITCHCRAFT, _and dealt with a_
FAMILIAR SPIRIT, _and with_ WIZARDS: _he wrought much evil in the sight
of the Lord, to provoke him to anger_.
Galatians, c. v, v. 20. _Idolatry_, WITCHCRAFT, _hatred, variance,
emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies_.
Micah, c. v, v. 12. I will cut off WITCHCRAFTS out of thine hand; and
thou shalt have no more soothsayers.
Acts, c. xiii, v. 6, 8. ¶ And when they had gone through the isle unto
Paphos, they found a certain Sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jew, whose
name _was_ Bar-jesus.
But Elymas the Sorcerer, (for so is his name by interpretation,)
withstood them, seeking to turn away the deputy from the faith.
Acts, c. viii, v. 9. ¶ But there was a certain man called Simon, which
before time in the same city used Sorcery, and bewitched the people of
Samaria, giving out that himself was some great one.
DEUTERONOMY, c. xviii, v. 10, 11. There shall not be found among you
_any one_, that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire,
or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a
witch.
Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a necromancer.
12. For all that do these things are an abomination: and because of
these abominations, the Lord thy God doth drive them from before thee.
_Dr. More’s Postscript._
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