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Satan's Invisible World Discovered: $b or a choice collection of modern relations, proving evidently, against the atheists of this present age, that there are devils, spirits, witches, and apparitions, from authentic records, and attestations of witnesses of undoubted veracity. To which is now added, that marvellous history of Major Weir and his sister, the witches of Bargarran, Pittenweem, Calder, &c.Sinclair, George

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Satan's Invisible World Discovered: $b or a choice collection of modern relations, proving evidently, against the atheists of this present age, that there are devils, spirits, witches, and apparitions, from authentic records, and attestations of witnesses of undoubted veracity. To which is now added, that marvellous history of Major Weir and his sister, the witches of Bargarran, Pittenweem, Calder, &c.

Name: Satan's Invisible World Discovered: $b or a choice collection of modern relations, proving evidently, against the atheists of this present age, that there are devils, spirits, witches, and apparitions, from authentic records, and attestations of witnesses of undoubted veracity. To which is now added, that marvellous history of Major Weir and his sister, the witches of Bargarran, Pittenweem, Calder, &c.
Author: Sinclair, George

Sinclair, George

Occultism; Superstition; Witchcraft

a design to reflect upon men of this or that persuasion, far be it.
The devil can counterfeit what religion he pleases, and ordinarily
a good one. True religion can never suffer any prejudice from a
hypocrite’s wearing a cloak of it, more than the good angels can
suffer a stain by Satan’s transforming himself into an angel of
light. The devil hath his lackies and pages with Christ’s livery upon
them. Was not Judas, who was but one of the twelve, a vile hypocrite?
It is a wonder, where there are a thousand professing Christ in a
congregation, that a hundred of them are not as bad. His glistering
cloak of religion dazzled all men’s eyes; this was needful. Foul
faults must have a cloak to cover them. The apostle Jude speaks of
some that go after Sarko’s heteras, which may be understood, not
only of that sin mentioned, Rom., i. 27. but of another sort of
flesh, not to be named. Here was a demonstration, proving evidently
that there is a God, viz. by the terrors of his conscience. It is
evident also, there is a devil that hurries men on into sin. He had
this expression to two ministers that came to see him in prison;
there was no temptation which the devil could propose to him, but
he was capable to accept of it. It is evident also, there is either
an explicit compact between some men and the devil; horrible sins
covered with religion bring utter despair at last. Desperation in
hell in “fieri.” Some men as well as devils are tormented before the
time. Let us not count the less of religion, that it is made a cloak
for covering sin; let us beware that such a man’s fall prove not a
neck-break to us; let us idolize no man for his profession, or that
he is of this or that persuasion, or of such a party: let no man rest
in a bare profession of religion. Men in compact with the devil, may
be assisted both to preach and pray. The devil’s servants are well
rewarded at the last. Profession and practice must go together; a
clinking profession, with an unbridled tongue, is a vain religion.
“Pure religion, and undefiled before God and the Father, is, to
visit the fatherless and the widows in their affliction; and for a
man to keep himself unspotted from the world.”

Major Weir was burnt between Edinburgh and Leith, at a place called
the Gallowlee, on Thursday the 14th of April 1676.




XXXVIII.—_An Apparition seen in a dwelling-house, in Mary King’s
Close, in Edinburgh._

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