The displaying of supposed witchcraft : $b Wherein is affirmed that there are many sorts of deceivers and impostors, and divers persons under a passive delusion of melancholy and fancy. But that there is a corporeal league made betwixt the devil and the witch, or that he sucks on the witches body, has carnal copulation, or that witches are turned into cats, dogs, raise tempests, or the like, is utterly denied and disproved. Wherein also is handled, the existence of angels and spirits, the truth Webster, John
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The displaying of supposed witchcraft : $b Wherein is affirmed that there are many sorts of deceivers and impostors, and divers persons under a passive delusion of melancholy and fancy. But that there is a corporeal league made betwixt the devil and the witch, or that he sucks on the witches body, has carnal copulation, or that witches are turned into cats, dogs, raise tempests, or the like, is utterly denied and disproved. Wherein also is handled, the existence of angels and spirits, the truth
Webster, John
Witchcraft; Witchcraft -- Early works to 1800
3. He was no false Prophet, that is, he had, nor used any Divinations,
but what he had from God, is most clear from these particulars. 1. When
_Balak_ first sent messengers unto him, his responsion was: _If Balak
would give me his house full of Silver and Gold I cannot go beyond the
word of the Lord my God, to do less or more_. “Whereby it is apparent
that he feared the Lord Jehovah, and calls him his God, thereby shewing
the confidence that he had in him, and that he acknowledged him for his
only God. 2. In the whole transaction of the business betwixt him and
_Balak_, he never took upon him to declare any thing, but what the Lord
would say unto him, neither did he at all vary from the same in the
least tittle.” 3. He confesseth all along, _that he had his eyes opened,
and that he heard the words of God, and had seen the vision of the
Almighty, falling into a trance, but having his eyes open_. And these
were things that were not peculiar to any, but such as were the true
Prophets of the Lord Jehovah. 4. The truth of his Prophecie, which was
of the Kingdom of Christ, and the Glory and Dominion of it, with the
prosperity of his people, doth plainly evince that he was a true Prophet
of the Lord, and that his Divinations came from the Almighty. And this
caused S. _Hierome_, and some other of the Fathers believe, that by this
Prophecie of _Balaam_, the _Magi_ or Wise men were directed, to come to
_Hierusalem_ to seek and worship Christ the Saviour of the World.
[Sidenote: _Reas. 4._]
[Sidenote: 2 Pet. 2. 15, 16.]
[Sidenote: Jude 11.]
[Sidenote: Revel. 2. 14.]
[Sidenote: Jonah 1. 3. & 4. 1.]
[Sidenote: 1 Kings 13.]
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