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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

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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

Name: 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
Author: Webster, John

Webster, John

Witchcraft; Witchcraft -- Early works to 1800

3. Those that seem to idolize humane abilities and carnal reason, have
not only applied those so much magnified Engines to the discovery of
created things, wherein they have effected so little, that sufficiently
proclaims the invalidity of the instruments or the inauspicious
application of them, or both, all the several sorts of Natural
Philosophy hitherto found out, or used, being examined, coming far short
of solving the _Phænomena_ of nature, when even the least animal or
vegetable affords matter enough to puzzle and _nonplus_ the greatest
Philosopher, so that we may justly complain with _Seneca_, that the
greatest part of those things we know are the least part of those things
we know not; These engines (I say) though proving ineffectual to find
out the true notions and knowledge of natural things, have also (like
the fiction of the Gyants) notwithstanding invaded Heaven, and taken
upon them to discover and determine of Celestials, wherein it is in a
manner totally blind, or sees but with an Owl-like vision. For indeed
the deciding of this point must be taken from the Divine authority of
the Scriptures, and the clear deductions that may be drawn from thence;
for this is that clear light, that we ought to follow, and not the
Dark-lanthorn of Mans blind, frail and weak reason, for it is _a sure
word of Prophecie whereunto_ it is good _to take heed_, and not to _vain
Philosophy, old Wives Fables, or opposition of Sciences falsly so
called_. And therefore we shall conclude this point here concerning the
corporeity or incorporeity of Angels with that Christian and learned
position of Dr. _Stillingfleet_ in these words: “But although
Christianity be a Religion which comes in the highest way of credibility
to the minds of Men, although we are not bound to believe any thing but
what we have sufficient reason to make it appear that it is revealed by
God, yet that any thing should be questioned whether it be of Divine
revelation, meerly because our reason is to seek, as to the full and
adequate conception of it, is a most absurd and unreasonable pretence.”

[Sidenote: Gen. 2. 7.]

[Sidenote: Eccles. 3. 21.]

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