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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

Also (he saith) we are taught, that they were a
great number that were partakers of this defection, and therefore the
Apostle speaketh in the plural number. 1. They are said to be thrust
down _in Tartarum_ into Hell by reason of the commutation of estate and
condition, because that from a most high condition, which they received
by creation, they were cast down to an estate most low. 2. By reason of
commutation of place, because they were thrust down from a place of
beatitude, where they were conversant about the Throne of God with the
rest of the Angels, into an inferiour place subject to sin and misery.
But that this place is in the lowest parts of the earth, as the Papists
do hold, cannot be made forth from the Scriptures, but rather the
contrary, for they are said to be conversant, and to rule in the air,
and to walk to and fro in the earth seeking the subversion of Men. This
at the least is manifest from the Scriptures, and ought to satisfie
those that are not too curious. 1. That they suffer a great change of
estate and condition. 2. That they are excluded and shut out from their
first habitation. 3. That they are in such a place where they suffer
both the pain of loss and of sense. They are said to be delivered over
to darkness, partly in respect of sin, and partly in respect of misery;
for darkness in Scripture doth denote both: and they are said to be
delivered in chains, by a metaphor taken from facinorous persons, that
are condemned and kept bound in prison with chains, and the chains are
these. 1. Obfirmation or obduration in sins. 2. An utter despair of any
freedom or deliverance. 3. A terrible, expectation of extream misery,
and an horrid fear of being cast into the abysse or deep. 4. The
Providence of God which continually watches over their custody,
imprisonment, and punishment. They are said to be reserved to damnation,
because they are so bound up in these evils and miseries, that they
never can escape; and yet these are but the beginnings only of their
miseries, for they are hereafter _to go into that everlasting fire, that
is prepared for the Devil, and his Angels_.”

[Sidenote: Job 1. 7.]

[Sidenote: 1 Pet. 5. 8.]

[Sidenote: 1 Kings 22. 22.]

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