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The T^EFACS.<br />

very ready to yield chat <strong>many</strong> fuch Miracles" are '<br />

fecn<br />

in thefe Dayec>. ]^c<br />

I will not further argue the Cal.e in this place. Well, let us z^ko. Miradei<br />

in the ordinary Senfe : I v^'-'^y b^I^^'e that <strong>many</strong> fuch things do happen<br />

in <strong>many</strong> places J but that through negligence partly, and partly throuoK<br />

incredulity , they are not regarded ohentimes, or. loon <strong>for</strong>gotten. And<br />

wifermen, fometimes, though they know or believe fuch thin-^^s v^c ^ixc<br />

not they very torward to tell them, left they bring themlelves into contempt<br />

with ihorcfuppoled wile men, who will Iboner laugh at any thing<br />

they do not underftand , then cake the pains to redifie' their ianorance or<br />

in<strong>for</strong>m their judgments. 1 hope I fhall do no wrong to the Memory <strong>of</strong><br />

that Venerable , Incomparable Prelate , B i s h o p A n d r e w e s <strong>for</strong><br />

Sound Learning and True Piety whileft he lived, one <strong>of</strong> the greatcft Lights<br />

<strong>of</strong> this Land; if I fet down two Stories, which we may call Mitades<br />

both which he -""^ belir"! to be <strong>true</strong>, but <strong>for</strong> one <strong>of</strong> them, it feemes he<br />

did undertake upon his own knowledge : The one, concerning a njjki ,<br />

or at leaft by <strong>many</strong> lufpeded Witch or Sorcerefs, which theDivel,in a ft^ge<br />

iliape, did wait i

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