[72] On perusing these Articles for the Detection of Witches, one cannot escape the Conviction that on their being sifted by the ordinary Rules of Common-sense, they actually amount to nothing at all. Thus in Article VI it is laid down, that "Witchcraft is an Art, that may be learned, and conveyed from Man to Man." This Postulate follows of course, previously assuming that the Occult Sciences originate in Mathematics; and further, that Mathematical Calculations are inseparable from the Laws that govern the whole System of the Universe, and hence emanate from, or are a Part of the Creator himself. Whence then, with this inevitable Conclusion, does the "Art" originate? Nothing can be clearer, therefore, than this,--if those learned Plodders of Master Perkins's Time had followed out the most simple Rules of Logic, they would have had neither Witch nor Devil wherewith to addle their own Brains, or to confound those of the unlearned Multitude. This Question being disposed of, all others having Dependence on it, or traceable to it, effectually dispose of the whole Question of Witchcraft. [73] John Gaule has not, so far as ascertained, been stumbled on by any Makers of Biographical Dictionaries, and Bibliographers are almost equally silent. How many Works he was Author of is not known. The Title of one is _Distractions, or Holy Madness_, 12mo, 1629. He wrote other theological Works, but their Titles have not come to the Annotator's Knowledge. [74] As there is more than one _Batcomb_ in England "Judicious Bernard's" being _of_ that Place is not much of a Guide to any looking after his Biography. Fortunately, or unfortunately for him, his Portrait was engraved, and that caused him to be noticed by Granger. His Name was Richard, and he was Pastor of "Batcombe" in Somersetshire. The Work extracted from by our Author was published in 1627. He was Author of a Concordance to the Bible, though it was not so entitled; also of a Work called the _Threefold Treatise of the Sabbath_, in 1641, in which Year he died. His Portrait by Hollar first appeared in this Work.--_Biog. Hist. England_, ii, 369. He was perhaps the Author of _The Isle of Man; or the Legal Proceedings in Man-Shire against Sinne_, 12mo, 1635. [75] Here the paging begins anew, in the Edition followed. [Decoration] [2] A DISCOURSE ON THE WONDERS OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD.[76] UTTERED (IN PART) ON AUG. 4, 1692.