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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. A third kind of power that he ascribeth unto Devils, is their
changing and transmuting of bodies, which is either in regard of
substantial transformations, or of those that are but in the external
figure or shape, or in the qualities, accidents and adjuncts only. Of
real transubstantiations, after a long dispute, he granteth, that they
cannot be brought to pass but by a Divine and Omnipotent Power, which we
have sufficiently proved before, and therefore shall forbear to say any
further of it here. And for what other portents, prodigies, or lying
wonders he can perform, we shall here examine and discuss them to the
full in this order.

[Sidenote: Deut. 13. 1, 2, 3, 5.]

[Sidenote: Deut. 18. 20, 21, 22.]

1. We shall pass by what may be thought of the strange feats the
Magicians of _Pharaoh_, or _Simon Magus_ did perform, as fully examined
and concluded before, and shall give those Texts of Scripture that
mention the signs and wonders that Antichrist and false prophets, that
are Satans Instruments, can or do work, and they are these. _If there
arise among you a Prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a
sign, or a wonder: And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he
spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods (which thou hast not
known) and let us serve them: Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of
that Prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the Lord your God proveth
you, to know whether you love the Lord your God with all your heart, and
with all your soul. And that Prophet, or dreamer of dreams, shall be put
to death, because he hath spoken to turn you away from the Lord your
God._—Another place is this: _But the Prophet which shall presume to
speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or
that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that Prophet shall die.
And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the
Lord hath not spoken? When a Prophet speaketh in the name of the Lord,
if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the
Lord hath not spoken, but the Prophet hath spoken it presumptuously:
thou shalt not be afraid of him._ From whence we may take these
Observations.

[Sidenote: _Observ. 1._]

[Sidenote: Jonah 3. 4.]

[Sidenote: _Orig. Sacr._ _l._ 2. _c._ 6. _p._ 193.]

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