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
Religion
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
2. That this Woman was a meer dissembling and lying cheater, and used
nothing but Imposture, is manifest from these reasons. 1. Because that
she was but of the same Crew and Stamp that _Manasseh_, and _Ahab_ set
up, is most plain, but they were meer Impostors and deceivers pretending
to divine for other persons, and in other matters, but could not foresee
their own destruction, and therefore in probability she was of the same
practice. 2. Because she falsly faigned that she knew not _Saul_, of
whom she could not be ignorant, he being so publickly known, and seen,
and was taller by the head and shoulders than any man in _Israel_. 3. If
she had not known that it had been _Saul_, when he came to her at the
first, she would never have relyed upon his oath when he swore by
_Jehovah_, for there was none but the King that could protect her from
destruction. 4. She must needs be a most notorious dissembling cheater,
because she pretended to call up any, for she said: _whom shall I bring
up unto thee?_ which is most certainly false, she had no such universal
power, no nor all the Devils in Hell, if they had all assisted her. 5.
She did plainly dissemble, for the Text saith, _and when the woman saw
Samuel she cried out with a loud voice_; now if she saw _Samuel_ (whom
he could not but know) why did she answer to _Saul_, when he asked,
_what sawest thou?_ She answered, _I saw gods ascending out of the
earth_. Let Mr. _Glanvil_, and all men judge if this be not gross and
palpable lying, Gods is plural, but _Samuel_ was but one.
[Sidenote: 1 Sam. 16. 14.]
[Sidenote: 1 Sam. 15. 23, 27.]
[Sidenote: 1 Sam. 28. 6.]
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