A. Chalmers, _Biographical Dict._ art. “Cotton Mather.” London, 1815. Footnote 562: “We cannot help lamenting that a sect among us looks upon the abolition of the penal statute against witchcraft not only as an evil but as a sin.... The Seceders published an Act ... in 1743 (reprinted at Glasgow, 1766). In this Act is contained the annual confession of sins.... Among the sins national and personal there confessed are ... (that) the penal statutes against witchcraft have been repealed by Parliament, contrary to the express law of God.”—H. Arnot, _Criminal Trials in Scotland_, p. 370. Edinburgh, 1785. Footnote 563: Lecky, _History of Rationalism_, p. 134. Footnote 564: _Arminian Magazine_, v. p. 366. London, 1782. Footnote 565: Dr. H. More employed the same argument in his _Antidote against Atheism_, lib. iii. chap. ii. London, 1653. Footnote 566: _Lay Sermons._ London, 1870. Footnote 567: H. L. Stephen, _State Trials_. Footnote 568: _History of Rationalism_, chap. i. Footnote 569: J. Williams, _Ency. Brit._, ninth ed. art. “Witchcraft.” Footnote 570: Mackay, _Delusions_, pp. 184, 187, etc. Footnote 571: _History of Rationalism_, p. 4, etc. Footnote 572: See article on the case by E. F. Benson, _Nineteenth Century_, vol. xxxvii. June 1895. A somewhat similar case occurred at Tarbes in 1850.—_History of Rationalism_, p. 4. Footnote 573: “What sort of distemper ’tis shall stick the body full of pins?”—Quoted by Calef, _More Wonders_, p. 5. Footnote 574: Scot quotes a ghastly passage from Grillandus, who writeth “that when witches sleepe and feel no paine upon the torture, _Domine labia mea aperies_ should be said, and so, saith he, both the torment will be felt and the truth will be uttered.—_Discoverie of Witchcraft_, p. 17. And we find in del Rio: “Narravit mihi ... anno 1599 captam puellulam strigatricem, quae nec pedum ustulationem saevissimam, nec flagra validissima sentiebat; donec Sacerdos cujusdam monitu illi Agni benedicti ceream imaginem in collum injecere, tum enim vi sacra amuleti daemonis praestigiosa ludibria depulsa et illa vim doloris coepit persentiscere.”—_Disquisitionum magicarum_, p. 184. Venice, 1616. See also E. Gurney, _Phantasms of the Living_, p. 181, who considers the insensibility to pain may have been due sometimes to auto-hynotism. Footnote 575: Mentioned, for instance, in _Twelfth Night_. Footnote 576: Les sorcières furent les sages-femmes et les sorciers les médecins du moyen âge.—P. Christian, _Histoire de la magie_, p. 400. Paris, ? 1871. Footnote 577: E. Gurney, _Phantasms of the Living_, p. 183. Footnote 578: Lecky, _History of Rationalism_, p. 77. Footnote 579: