The effects of which, Sir, (not to mention that long Letter only once read to me) was, you sent me word you would meet me at Mr. _Wilkins's_ but before that Answer, at yours and your Fathers complaint, I was brought before their Majesties Justice, by Warrant, as for Scandalous _Libels_ against yourself, and was bound over to Answer at Sessions; I do not remember you then objected against the Truth of what I had wrote, but asserted it was wronged by omissions, which if it were so was past any Power of mine to remedy, having given a faithful account of all that came to my knowledge; And Sir, that you might not be without some Cognizance of the reasons why I took so much pains in it, as also for my own Information, if it might have been, I wrote to you my second Letter to this effect. November _the_ 24_th_, 1693. Reverend SIR, _HAVING expected some Weeks, your meeting me at Mr._ Wilkins _according to what you intimated to me_, J. M---- _and the time drawing near for our meeting elsewhere, I thought it not amiss to give you a Summary of my thoughts in the great concern, which as you say has been agitated with so much [17] heat. That there are Witches is not the doubt, the Scriptures else were in vain, which assign their Punishment to be by death; But what this Witchcraft is, or wherein it does consist, seems to be the whole difficulty: And as it may be easily demonstrated, that all that bear that Name cannot be justly so accounted, so that some things and Actions not so esteemed by the most, yet upon due examination will be found to merit no better Character_. _In your late Book you lay down a brief Synopsis of what has been written on that Subject, by a_ Triumvirate _of as Eminent Men as ever handled it_[40] (_as you are pleas'd to call them_) viz. _Mr._ Perkins, Gaule, _and_ Bernard _consisting of about 30 Tokens to know them by, many of them distinct from, if not thwarting each other: Among all of which I can find but one decisive_, Viz. _That of Mr._ Gaule, _Head_ IV. _and runs thus; Among the most unhappy Circumstances to convict a Witch, one is a maligning and oppugning the Word, Work, or Worship of God, and by any extraordinary Sign seeking to seduce any from it, see_ Deu. 13. 1, 2. Mat. 24. 24. Acts. 13. 8, 10. 2. Tim. 3. 8. _Do but mark well the places, and for this very property of thus opposing and perverting, they are all there concluded Arrant and absolute Witches._