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8 . Persons , who believe themselves Possessed , or are reputed so , are suspicious evidences . Q and 10 . Examination of two particular events , both of pretended Witchcraft , at Fraueker , in Friesland , and Campen , in Oieryssel .
11 Examination of the case of Urbain Grandier and the Ursulines at JLoudun , in France . * 12 . Precautions in judging * on Facts , attributed to Witchcraft or the Devil . 13 . Application of these warnings to pretended Facts , mentioned in the first book , with relation to the Heathens .
14 . 1 he same with regard to modern Heathen Nations . 15 . To Jews and Mahommedans . 16 . To Roman Catholics . 17 . To Protestants ; Drinking Horn of the Counts of Oldenburg ; Horn in the possession of the King of Denmark , with its engraving .
18 . Observations on the Northern Nations in Europe ; Magicians ; unguentmnarmariii / m , &c . ] Q and 20 . Isabella Hamelensis , f another mentioned in Systh . Hist Chron , Ecclesiarum Sclavoriicarum , by Adr . Regenvolcius , Ultraj . 1652 ; examine another , said to have happened in Bolswaerd , Friesland . 21 and 22 . The vexing Devil of Mascori , % in France , from Perraud ' s
* Urbain Grandier , Cure of Loudun , where he was burnt , Aug . 18 , 1634 , with circumstances i > f great cruelty , under a charge of Magic , but reaJly on account of an oiience * riven to Richelieu . There was
published a full account of the intrigues against Grandier , which ended so tragically . See u duels Effets de la Ven - geance du Cardinal Richelieu , ou Histoire des Diables De Loudun , De la Possession des Religieuses l ^ rsuliues , et de la condemnation et du suplice D ^ Jrbain Grandier , Cur 6 de la m 6 me Ville . " 12 mo . Amst .
1716 . A large account of Clrandier was given a "few years since in the Looker-On . f- The story of the pied-coated piper of Hainelen , in Brunswick , who was said to have decoyed , by his pipe , and miraculously destroyed , 130 children , the 22 d July , 1376 , as the date was preserved in
the records of that town , according * to VerstegarCs Restitution , &c , 8 vo ., 1653 , P . 69 . Howell has repeated the story in bis Letters , 11 th Ed . p 287 . Dr . 11 . More , On Atheism , credited this story . X Th , e Devil of Mascon , & . c , was trans , toted from the French by Dr . Du Moulin
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Demonologia ; that of Ted word , in England , from Glanvilie and More ; that of Anneberg , in Saxony ; and another in Switzerland . 23 On the Divinatory Rod , to discover Mines , Springs , Murderers ; Vallemont , l . a Physique Occulte .
24—26 . Judicial Proceedings no solid proofs for the existence of Sorcerers and Witches . 27 . Continuation of the Suhject ; Judicial Proceedings in the Netherlands against Witchcraft about the Reformation ; Cruelty . 28 . In Denmark .
2 Q In Sweden . 30 . Examination of the discovered Witchcraft in England , Nov . 1689 . * William Spicer and Mary Hill . 31 and 32 . Examination of Judicial Proceedings in Harlingen , in Friesland .
33 . Conclusion ; there do not exist in the world Apparitions or Witchcraft . 34 . Superintendents in Churches , Schools and all Magistrates , ought to oppose all such erroneous opinions and practices . 35 . Peroration , 1 Tim . iv . 7 .
Jt is not strictly correct , though true in part , that the Mennonite Baptists are Unitarians , with the addition of an austere discipline in the church . The best knowledge of their numerous congregations and various divisions may be collected , besides what is recorded by Jablmishi , and his
continuatoi \ Z > . Stosch , D . D . in Hist . Christ . EccLes . torn . II . ancj III . sec . xviii . lect . xiii . p . 400 , and may be gathered from a concise but accurate account of the Liberal Baptists , in the Encyclopedia of Yverdun , from H . Schyn Hist . Mennonitarum , in three vols . 8 vo . if my memory does not deceive me .
and published at Oxford , 1669 , 12 mo . Sec Birch ' s Lite of Boyle , 8 vo p . 202 . There is some account of the Devil of Mascon in Mon . Kepos IX . 114 , &c . * It appears that on Nov . 29 , 1689 Bekker received a hook from England , entitled " A Relation of the Discovery of some lVitchcrafts . y > This he immediately translated into Dutch , " adding : some
remarks fit to open the eyes of the reader , by discovering- the grounds on which such relations are Jaid ; that he might not thereby be in danger of being * confirmed in the vulgar error . * ' Preface to World Bewitched . Vol . I .
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Some Account of Dr . Balthasar Bekker and of the Mennonite Baptists . 455
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1817, page 453, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2467/page/5/
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