CASES of Conscience
Concerning
Evil Spirits
Personating MEN;
WITCHCRAFTS,
Infallible Proofs of Guilt in such as are
Accused with that CRIME.

All Considered according to the Scriptures, History, Experience, and the Judgment of many Learned MEN.

By Increase Mather, President of Harvard Colledge at Cambridge, and Teacher of a Church at Boston in New England.

PROV. xxii. xxi.
——That thou mightest Answer the Words of Truth, to them that send unto thee.

Efficiunt Dæmones, ut quæ non sunt, sic tamen, quasi sint, conspicienda hominibus exhibeant. Lactantius Lib. 2. Instit. Cap. 15. Diabolus Consulitur, cum iis mediis utimur aliquid Cognoscendi, quæ a Diabolo sunt introducta. Ames Cas. Cons. L. 4. Cap. 23.

Printed at Boston, and Re-printed at London, for John Dunton, at the Raven in the Poultrey. 1693.

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