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- The lait argument against tbe reality of witchcraft is , that it scribes unto the devil an omnipo . tent power ; insomuch that n © rational manf by the light of re a-
son , shall face able to tell from the history of the gospel , Whether Christ were a witch or np /* My author immediately adds , according to the- theory of miracles which Sir . Farmer ably maintained and 6 i
illustrated , a century later ; for , let some men think what they please , the holiness of his doctrine i $ not the thousandth part such a proof of his ' acting by a divine power , as the miraculousness of
his : works . Bat , alas ! what were his miracles , or how were they to be valued , if malicious creatures , without a divine commission enabling them thereto , can rnake frogs and serpents raise the dead , end give law unto the winds and
seas / ' This passage introduces the author ' s diabolical creed , which , however unsupported fiv a ration * interpretation of sciripture , is qualified and harmless , compared with any creed which hftda ^ pwred ill 4 he middle of the seventeenth century ^ or with the present / u * pf / - for doctrine of Devils . '•
" I believe that devils are aerial creatures : and though they may h # ve rjidre ski 11 , agility and strength than men , yet that they act as iqen dd ^ by applying of natural agents and patients to one another itt this sublunary world . ; But as fot the ? world aetherial and celestial ^ I suppose they have no P 0 » ver there . Consequently , that
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glorious celestial stars , that are tm way obnoxiotis to diabolical pow . e «; My a «* tho ^ % on $ l 4 e « s * tfe « w who think Qtherwise , to approach ur > io the opinion of the Persians ,
who held there were two great beings , both almighty , both at mutual and perpetual war ; one the author of all good , the other , the author of all evil / ' ( P . $ 0 # ) In this connection is quoted at
large , in tfce Latin original , " a very seasonable decree made by the Council of Ancyra , more an . cient than the Nicene Council , wherein they declare to all Christiana the heathenishness of this
belief and opinion / ' ( P , b % ) TheJiftA chapter , entitled , Am Answer to their Arguments who endeavour to prove - there arc Witches * consists chiefly of aa enumeration , rather sarcastic / of the "stories retailed on the subject
! of witchcraft and the " haunts of spirits * Yet , to the believers m such marvellous tales ? the author Brakes the following unexpected , t&Pil ^ ^ i ai i fi « d coi ^ cesBibn , the first t » entence of which remind me of hbcc * e » fH > rary Milton
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1812, page 620, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1753/page/24/
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