ast
assault of Satan; wherein he persuaded her at least to
go to their meetings, and she answered that she would
not follow such a base fallen creature; and he
rejoining that she would go to hell, however, for her
other sins; and she answering that he was a liar from
the beginning, and the blood of Jesus would cleanse
her from all iniquity: whereupon he disappeared, and
she perfectly recovered upon the Sabbath thereafter;
was a happy end put to this fearful tragedy of
witchcraft, and confirms to conviction the reality of
it.

"As to the murdering of the children, and the minister
libelled: you may observe several extraordinary things
appearing in them; particularly, the witnesses depone,
the minister to have been in excessive torments, and
of an unusual colour, to have been of sound judgment;
and yet he did tell of several women being about him,
and that he heard the noise of the door opening, when
none else did hear it. The children were well at
night, and found dead in the morning, with a little
blood on their noses, and blaes at the roots of their
ears; which were obvious symptoms of strangling....

"The second part of the probation consists of several
adminicles, proven by unsuspected witnesses, which
lead us to suspect those panels to be witches, as so
many lines drawn from a circumference to a centre, and
as an avenue to the positive probation thereafter
adduced; and these either strike at the whole panels
in general, or some of them in particular....

"You see that none of them doth shed tears; nor were
they ever discovered to do it since their
imprisonment, notwithstanding their frequent
howlings....

"In particular, you see how Katharine Campbell was
provoked by this girl's discovering her theft;
whereupon she has brought in the rest of her
confederates to act the mischiefs; how Campbell did
curse and imprecate in a terrible manner; how she
staid out of her bed at night, and was frequently
drowsy in the morning....

"Margaret Lang, that great impostor, has been a great
masterpiece of the devil: she has confessed unnatural
lust, which is known to some of your number; she sat
near the door where the charm of hair was found, which
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