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
In my passing to the eight chapter I will only take notice by the way of
the shameless impudence of J. Webster, who in favour to his beloved
hags, that they may be never thought to do any thing by the assistance
of the devil, makes the victory of Moses, with whom the mighty hand of
God was, or of Christ, (who was the angel that appeared first to Moses
in the bush, and conducted the children of Israel out of Egypt to the
promised land) to be the victory only over so many hocus-pocusses, so
many jugglers that were, as it seems, old and excellent at the tricks of
Legerdemain; which is the basest derogation to the glory of that
victory, and the vilest reproach against the God of Israel, and the
person of Moses, that either the malicious wit of any devil can invent,
or the dulness of any sunk soul can stumble upon. Assuredly there was a
real conflict here betwixt the kingdom of light and the kingdom of
darkness and the evil spirits thereof, which assisted the חרטמים
_Hartummim_, the Magicians of Egypt; who before that name is named, that
no man may mistake, are called מכשפים, _Mecassaphim_, such kind of
magicians as can exhibit to the sight manifold prestigious
transformations through diabolical assistance, and are rendered
_Malificia_ by good interpreters, as I noted above; that is, they were
wizzards, or he-witches. The self same word being used in that severe
law of Moses, ‘Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.’ Are not these
magicians then examples plain enough that there are witches; that is to
say, such wretched wights as do strange miraculous things by the
assistance or consociation of the evil spirits?
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