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
5. And concerning his Tenent that the Idea or Notion of God is as easy
as the notion of any thing else whatsoever, that the notion may be easy
we grant; but whether it be true and adequate, there lies the question.
For those old Hereticks that held that God had Eyes, Ears, Head, Hands
and Feet and the like, had an easie notion of it, conceiving him to have
humane members, but I hope the Doctor will not say that this notion of
theirs was a notion truly drawn from the nature and being of God,
because there is no corporeity in him at all. And it is and hath been
the Tenent of all Orthodox Divines, Ancient, Middle and Modern, that God
in his own nature and being is infinite and incomprehensible, and
therefore there can no true and adequate notion of him, as being so, be
duly and rightly gathered in the understanding of creatures; and so the
Doctors position or notion must needs be Phantastry and imaginary
Enthusiasm. For as there are many things in nature that in themselves
are finite and comprehensible, that as he grants of naked essence or
substance are utterly unconceivable to any of our faculties; much more
must the being of God that is infinite and incomprehensible, which are
attributes that are incommunicable, be utterly unconceivable to any of
our faculties. And it is but the vain pride of Mans Head and Heart,
thereby to magnifie his own abilities, whereas the Text doth pronounce
this of him, _For vain man would be wise; though he be born like a wild
ass colt_; that lifts him up to conceit that he can fathom and
comprehend the Infinite and Almighty, whom the Heaven of Heavens cannot
contain, and therefore cannot frame a true notion of him, whom perfectly
he doth not understand nor comprehend, and the attributes of God are
matters of Faith and not the weak deductions of humane reason.
[Sidenote: _Origin. sacr._ _l._ 2. _c._ 8. _p._ 233, 234.]
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