[560]. The Roman Catholic view of sorcery and evil spirits is treated at length by R. R. Madden, Phantasmata, chap. ix.
[561]. A. Chalmers, Biographical Dict. art. “Cotton Mather.” London, 1815.
[562]. “We cannot help lamenting that a sect among us looks upon the abolition of the penal statute against witchcraft not only as an evil but as a sin.... The Seceders published an Act ... in 1743 (reprinted at Glasgow, 1766). In this Act is contained the annual confession of sins.... Among the sins national and personal there confessed are ... (that) the penal statutes against witchcraft have been repealed by Parliament, contrary to the express law of God.”—H. Arnot, Criminal Trials in Scotland, p. 370. Edinburgh, 1785.
[563]. Lecky, History of Rationalism, p. 134.
[564]. Arminian Magazine, v. p. 366. London, 1782.
[565]. Dr. H. More employed the same argument in his Antidote against Atheism, lib. iii. chap. ii. London, 1653.
[566]. Lay Sermons. London, 1870.
[567]. H. L. Stephen, State Trials.
[568]. History of Rationalism, chap. i.
[569]. J. Williams, Ency. Brit., ninth ed. art. “Witchcraft.”