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Witches: But if the Representation of such a Person as afflicting, or
the Look or Touch be an infallible proof of the guilt of Witchcraft in
the Persons complained of, 'tis the easiest thing in the World to
discover them; for it is done to our hand, and there needs no enquiry
into the Matter.

8. _Let them say this is an infallible Proof, produce any Word out of
the Law of God which does in the least countenance that Assertion:_ The
Word of God instructs Jurors and Judges to proceed upon clear humane
Testimony, _Deut. 35.30._ But the Word no where giveth us the least
Intimation, that every one is a Witch, at whose look the bewitched
Person shall fall into Fits; nor yet that any other means should be used
for the discovery of Witches, than what may be used for the finding out
of Murderers, Adulterers, and other Criminals.

9. Sometimes Antipathies in Nature have strange and unaccountable
Effects. I have read of a Man that at the sight of his own Son, who was
no Wizzard would fall into Fits. There are that find in their Natures an
averseness to some Persons whom they never saw before, of which they can
give no better an account than he in _Martial_, concerning _Sabidius_.

_Non Amo te Sabidi, nec possum dicere quare._

That some Persons at the Sight of Bruit-Creatures, Cats, Spiders, _&c._
nay, at the sight of Cheeses, Milk, Apples, will fall into Fits, is too
well known to be denied. _Pensingius_ in his Learned Discourse _De
Pulvere Sympathetico_, p. 128. saith, there was one in the City of
_Groning_ that could not bear the sight of a Swine's Head: And that he
knew another who was not able to look on the Picture thereof. _Amatus
Lusitanus_ speaks of one that at the sight of a Rose would swoon away:
This proveth that the falling into a Fit at the sight of another is not
always a sign of Witchcraft. It may proceed from Nature, and the Power
of Imagination.

To conclude; Judicious _Casuists_[73] have determined, that to make use
of those _Media_ to come to the Knowledge of any Matter, which have no
such power in them by Nature, nor by Divine Institution is an Implicit
going to the Devil to make a discovery: Now there is no natural Power in
the Look or Touch of a Person to bewitch another; nor is this by Divine
Institution the means whereby Witchcraft is discovered: Therefore it is
an unwarrantable Practice.

We proceed now to the third Case proposed to Consideration; If the
things which have been mentioned are