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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

he is yet living in the town, a flesher; the minister having married
him to two wives since. The deceased wife’s name was Helen Brown. I
intended to have published another relation anent the devil’s coming
in the night-time, and knocking three several times at such a man’s
door; but I was desired to forbear.

Having no kindness for the Cartesian philosophy, I must fall upon it
in the close, as I did in the beginning. I will not name nor cite
the author that maintains the following blasphemous opinions, though
I may; 1st, That there is an infinite intelligible extension, which
is God, in which we see all bodies. 2dly, This author makes Christ
the eternal World, speak in the quality of a Cartesian philosopher.
3dly, He destroys altogether the providence of God. 4thly, He says,
that God hath not made all things for his own glory. 5thly, That it
was necessary that all men should be sinners, that there might be a
diversity of glory. 6thly, Works done without grace are good works.
7thly, God is not the author of every good thing that is in us.
8thly, He destroys the authority of the Scripture, and exposes it
to be despised by the prophane. 9thly, The thoughts of Jesus Christ
are the occasional causes of the distribution of grace. 10thly, God
could have created spirits from all eternity. 11thly, All creatures
are full of Jesus Christ. 12thly, He ruins the nature of sin by
the idea which he gives of liberty. l3thly, That liberty is not
essential to spirit. 14thly, A man transported by his passion doth
not sin. 15thly, Every habit or passion, or temperament, which he
cannot overcome, doth make the most ugly and enormous actions to be
no sins. And thence, sodomy, incest, murder, adultery, rebellion,
witchcraft, are no sins if they be habitual. These are but a few
of his blasphemous and atheistical opinions. This philosophy would
please some now-a-days very well, that habituate themselves in
murder; murdering some in their lodgings, and others on the King’s
highway, as is most unchristianly done by some. “O dementia! hucine
rerum venimus?”




SOME

ADDITIONAL RELATIONS,

WHICH HAVE HAPPENED IN THE

SHIRE OF RENFREW, TOWNS OF PITTENWEEM, CALDER, AND OTHER PLACES.




XL.—_Concerning some Witches in the Shire of Renfrew._

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