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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. And as the Scriptures are sufficient in matters of Faith, and _circa
credenda_, and what they are silent in, are not to be received as
Articles of our Faith, but to be rejected, as having no truth of
Existence: So likewise what Worship God requireth of his people, is
fully revealed in his Word, and therefore I am to reject the worshipping
of _Mahomet_ with the Turks, or Images, and praying to Saints with the
Papists, because I have neither precept nor president in the Word, but
it is silent in such matters; nay tells us, _That he is the Lord our
God, and him only we ought to serve_.

[Sidenote: _Pag._ 87, 88. 23.]

[Sidenote: _Origin. Sacr._ _l._ 3. _c._ 6. _p._ 608.]

[Sidenote: Invisib. World, p. 112.]

[Sidenote: Joh. 17. 24.]

[Sidenote: Serm. c. 7.]

[Sidenote: Wisd. 3. 1.]

[Sidenote: Luk. 23. 43.]

[Sidenote: _Concio secunda de Lazaro._]

[Sidenote: Luk. 16. 22, 23.]

[Sidenote: 2 Sam. 12. 23.]

[Sidenote: Job 7. 9, 10.]

[Sidenote: _Idem._ 10. 20, 21.]

[Sidenote: _Bellarm. Enervat._ _tom._ 2. _l._ 5. _p._ 204.]

[Sidenote: _Homil._ _sect._ 16. _pag._ 484.]

4. Though Mr. _Glanvil_ say, that God hath given no account of the state
of the other World, but only that general one of the happiness of some,
and the misery of others; yet Am I to believe as Mr. _Glanvil_ somewhere
in his Book affirmeth, that _Samuels_ Soul was raised up by the Woman at
_Endor_, and that those that he feigneth to make Leagues and Contracts
with Witches, are the Souls of such as had been Witches when they lived,
and asketh, Who saith that happy Souls were never imployed in any
ministeries here below? Or am I to believe that both the Souls of the
godly and wicked, do rove up and down here upon earth, and make
Apparitions, because the Popish Teachers do hold it to be so? I hope
not, and therefore I shall in part give an answer here to some of these,
and handle that of the Woman of _Endor_ in another place. 1. The Word of
God doth particularly teach us the state and condition of the Souls
after death, that they shall be like the Angels in Heaven; and all other
things necessary to move and draw us to believe the immortal Existence
of Souls, as that most able and learned Divine Dr. _Stillingfleet_ hath
asserted in these words: “The Scriptures give the most faithful
representation of the state and condition of the Soul of Man. The World
(he saith) was almost lost in Disputes concerning the Nature, Condition,
and Immortality of the Soul, before divine Revelation was made known to
Mankind by the Gospel of Christ; _but life and immortality was brought
to light by the Gospel_, and the future state of the soul of man not
discovered in an uncertain Platonical way, but with the greatest light
and evidence from that God who hath the supreme disposal of souls, and
therefore best knows and understands them.” A Sentence truly pious and
orthodoxal. 2. Hath not God in the holy Scriptures amply and plainly
taught us the state of the other World, in describing unto us such a

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