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.
Sinclair, George
Occultism; Superstition; Witchcraft
As, 1st, That we heard twice. And, 2dly, Three of us did so think.
3dly, That I was in courage, and so my judgment not jumbled by
any fearful apprehensions. 4thly, That the accent and way of her
discourse, and in what we did understand of it, was not after the
manner how one regrets a thing to himself, but of one conferring with
another. 5thly, That the other voice was to my certain hearing of a
different accent from her’s, so hollow and ghostly, that it was as
easy for me to put a difference between them in the mean time, as
between the voice of a man and the voice of a child. 6thly, That to
my best remembrance the uncouth voice began before she ended, so that
two voices were to be heard at once. Lastly, A. Simpson understood
their language, and afterward did depone the words judicially.——It
is good (1) For folk to hold on in doing of duty, though they forsee
unsuperable difficulties before they come to the end of it. Let a man
go on till he come to the difficulty, and ere he come that far on,
God will remove it. (2) ’Tis good in asking mercies to engage the
heart to some duties of thankfulness, upon the granting them. (3) How
zealous is the devil to get souls damned, that though he be of an
excellent substance, of great natural parts, long experience, deep
understanding, yet he will so far enslave himself to poor miscreant
bodies as to be ready at their call, to discourse and keep company
with them, that at the last he may get them. How serviceable and
trusty soever the devil seems to be unto witches, yet he cares not
to ensnare them at the last; for he could not but know that we were
waiting on to hear him and her; so that he had on purpose entered
into discourse with her, that she might be taken in the grin.
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