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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

2. And it is manifest that God did not altogether intend to have him
hidden from the knowledge of Devils, because he ordered that _the spirit
should lead him into the wilderness, that he might be tempted_, that his
power and victory might be shown over the Prince of darkness. And the
end that the wisdom of God had in this, was that the Devils to their
greater terror and horror might know their Conquerour, and by whose
power they should be tormented and thrown into the Abyss or bottomless
pit, and this made them cry out saying, _Art thou come to torment us
before the time_, and also _force us not into the Abyss or deep_.

[Sidenote: Luk. 2. 11.]

[Sidenote: Math. 3. 17.]

3. The Devils might know this because the Angels had proclaimed his
birth to the Shepherds, and told them, that _unto them was born that
day, in the City of David, a Saviour which was Christ the Lord_: And
they might know it from the appearing of the Holy Ghost in the form of a
Dove, and resting upon him, and by the voice which said from Heaven,
_this is my beloved son, in whom I am well pleased_. And they might know
it by the conquest that Christ had over the Devil, and by _their daily
being cast out by the power of his word_, and command, as by the finger
of God.

[Sidenote: 1 Cor. 2. 11.]

4. The mysteries of Salvation cannot be known unto the good Angels, but
by Divine Revelation, much less unto the bad ones, as witnesseth the
Text: _For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man
which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the
spirit of God._ The mysteries therefore of Salvation, as they have been
decreed by himself in his eternal counsel, are not known unto the
Angels, but by the revelation of the spirit of God and the complement
and fulfilling of his promises. So concerning the restauration or
precise day and hour of the coming of Christ, do not the Angels in
Heaven know, though their knowledge be vast and great, and therefore
much less those faln and rebellious Angels that are _chained in
everlasting darkness, untill the judgment of the great day_.

[Sidenote: Math. 18. 10.]

[Sidenote: Revel. 12. 9.]

[Sidenote: 2 Pet. 2. 4.]

[Sidenote: Heb. 1. 14.]

[Sidenote: Josh. 5. 13.]

[Sidenote: Acts 12. 7.]

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