Wonders of the Invisible World

ENCOUNTERED. 25tious Confession, so I believe none in the Authority willpress him to discover it but; rejoyc'd in a Soul sav'd fromDeath. On the other side [ifI must again use the wordSide, which yet I hope to live to blot out] thereare veryworthy Men, who are not a little dissatisfied at the Proceedingsin the Prosecution of this Witchcraft. And why?Not because they would have any such abominable thing,defended from the Strokes of Impartial Justice. No,those Reverend Persons who gave in this Advice unto the'Honourable Council ;That Presumptions, whereupon*'Persons may be Committed, and much more Convictions,whereupon Persons may be Condemned, as guilty of*Witchcrafts, ought certainly to be more considerable, thun'barely the Accused Persons being represented by a Spectre1unto the Afflicted ;Nor are Alterations made in the'Sufferers, by a Look or Touch of the Accused, to be'esteemed an infallible Evidence of Guilt;but frequently'liable to be abused by the Devils Legerdemains' I say,:those very Men of God most conscientiously Subjoined thisArticle to that Advice,'*Neverthelesswe cannot buthumbly recommend unto the Government, the speedy and'vigorousProsecution of such as have rendred thein-'selves Obnoxious; according to the best Directions given'in the Laws of God, and the wholsome Statutes of the'English Nation for the Detection of Witchcraft.' Only'tis a most commendable Cautiousness, in those graciousMen, to be very shye lest the Devil get so far into ourFaith, as that for the sake of many Truths which we findhe tells us, we come at length to believe any Lyes, wherewithhe may abuse us: whereupon, what a Desolation of