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ng can be produced out of the Word of God to shew, that this is any Proof of Witchcraft 268 9. Antipathies in Nature have Strange and Unaccountable Effects 268 The Third Case considered, Whether there are any Discoveries of Witchcraft, which Jurors and Judges may with a safe Conscience proceed upon to the Conviction and Condemnation of the Persons under Suspicion? 269 Two things premised:-- 1. That the Evidence in the Crime of Witchcraft ought to be as clear as in any other Crimes of a Capital Nature 269 2. That there have been ways of Trying Witches long used, which God never approved of. More particularly that of casting the Suspected Party into the Water, to try whether they will Sink or Swim. The Vanity and great Sin which is in that way of Purgation evinced by Six Reasons 270 That there are Proofs for the Conviction of Witches, which Jurors may with a safe Conscience proceed upon, proved from Scripture 275 That a Free and Voluntary Confession is a sufficient Ground of Conviction 276 That the Testimony of confessing Witches against others, is not so clear an Evidence as against themselves 279 That if two Credible Persons shall affirm upon Oath that they have seen the Person accused doing Things, which none but such as have familiarity with the Devil, ever did or can do, that's a sufficient ground of Conviction: and that this has often happened 282 Mr. _Perkins_ his Solemn Caution to Jurors 283 Postscript 285 _The Wonders of the Invisible World:_ Being an Account of the TRYALS OF \Several Witches\, Lately Excuted in NEW-ENGLAND: And of several remarkable Curiosities therein Occurring. Together with, I. Observations upon the Nature, the Number, and the Operations of the Devils. II. A short Narrative of a late outrage committed by a knot of Witches in _Swede-Land_, ve
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