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t&fy did not understand Hebrew , <^ jf l&ey did * the notion of witch * Sjgft doth , not appear in Motes *** oiierwisethey could not have deu qta&the exi ^ fcence of $ pi rits .
o'V 3 Eh * diflfei out practices ascribe ed unto our vulgarly supposed witche % , s and tho > se in our translation p / t&e Bible , " furnish " the ^ tftjm } la , 3 t &rgu ment , that there fa ^ pp , such thing , as a witch in fi ^ ip £ M *« . — Ou , r mydern witches pTa <; tlse v a , secise , t occult art , and $ * * gr * 3 t , airt ta discover them % several strange sjgus and horrid th
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abomioable actions of : witches agsiinbit bo ( h man and beast- With * out question , it would havte in * flic ted upon them the severest punw ish meets , and , for the discovery of their secret and devilish contracts , it would have laid down sufficient
marks for trial ; ' * as , on * another occasion , 4 * it made use of that horrible and amazing , trial ^ by the bitter water which cause *) the curse . ' * ( P * 46 . ) My author neixt argues < l froia
the miserable poverty of vulgarly reputed witches , that they are wrongfully accused / ' He is " not willing to believe that they have such a power with the devil as to make him to do wonderful things at their command , when they never
command him to fetch them money and bread . " He then proceeds to 4 charge those who obstinately maintain there are witches , either with irrationality or impiety .
Irratw > nai to think that the devils are cieaturesifull of malice , and bre atb * iog . noAJght but mischief against the whole race of man , and thart thuey a ^ fiier a man to live , when the %
can so easily kill us at the con ** mand of a witch . Butif you evad ^ this , by saying that devote cannot hurt us without Gobi ' s- permission , ' tis , impious to concern : the great God with * witchcr « rft /*( P . 47 . ) Tbii
o , punion is sustained by- tke aui tborityof Calvniy who , * rn his Sermons ; on the t ^ vo first chapters of Job , takes a-great deal of pains to explode tfhis opinion' of God ^ s permi ^ ion ^ and sbe \ v % by seveml exttroples , that God doth not barely p < t « mit , but orders and de ^
teFiwinest £ he actions of devils » nd wicloed m « n , affinning thmif apes could speak } they vrouW speak wiiqr , than 4 tb « Dse ^ men wHo talk ^ off God s < permiirtingA ?^ ^ 4 « i >^ : ?
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1812, page 619, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1753/page/23/
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