[156] If _Baalam_ became a Sorcerer by Sacrifizing and Praying to the true God against his visible people; Then he that shall pray that the afflicted (by their _Spectral_ Sight) may accuse some other Person (whereby their reputations and lives may be indangered) such will justly deserve the Name of a _Sorcerer_. If any Person pretends to know more than can be known by humane means, and professeth at the same time that they have it from the _Black-Man, i. e. the Devil_, and shall from hence give Testimony against the Lives of others, they are manifestly such as have a familiar Spirit; and if any, knowing them to have their Information from the _Black-man_, shall be inquisitive of them for their Testimony against others, they therein are dealing with such as have a _Familiar-Spirit_. And if these shall pretend to _see the dead_ by their _Spectral Sight_, and others shall be inquisitive of them, and receive their Answers what it is the _dead say_, and who it is they accuse, both the one and the other are by Scripture _Guilty of Necromancy_. These are all of them crimes as easily proved as any whatsoever, and that by such proof as the Law of God requires, so that it is _no Unintelligible Law_. But if the Iniquity of the times be such that these Criminals not only Escape Indemnified, but are Incouraged in their wickedness, and made use of to take away the Lives of others, this is worse than a making the Law of God _Vain_, it being a rendring of it _dangerous_, against the Lives of Innocents, and without all hopes of better, so long as these Bloody Principles remain. As long as Christians do Esteem the _Law of God to be Imperfect_, as not describing that crime that it requires to be Punish'd by Death. As long as men suffer themselves to be Poison'd in their Education, and be grounded in a _False-Belief by the Books of the Heathen_. As long as the _Devil_ shall be believed to have _a Natural Power, to Act above and against a course of Nature_. As long as the _Witches_ shall be believed to have a Power to _Commission him_. As long as the _Devil's Testimony_, by the pretended afflicted, shall be received as _more valid to Condemn_, than their Plea of _Not Guilty_ to acquit. As long as the _Accused_ shall have their _Lives and Liberties_ confirmed and restored to them, _upon their Confessing themselves Guilty_. As long as the _Accused_ shall be forc't to _undergo Hardships and Torments_ for their not Confessing. As long as _Tets_ for the _Devil to Suck_ are searched for upon the Bodies of the accused, as a token of guilt. As long as the _Lord's Prayer_ shall be profaned, by being made a Test, who are culpable. As long as _Witchcraft, Sorcery, Familiar Spirits, and Necromancy_, shall be improved to discover who are _Witches_, _&c._ _So long it may be expected that innocents will suffer as Witches_. _So long God will be Daily dishonoured, And so long his Judgments, must be expected to be continued._[177] _FINIS._ FOOTNOTES: