But I shall say no more, but let the Book speak for it self, only desiring the Readers, first to peruse and seriously to consider, before they censure, that so I may have cause to bid them, Farewel.
Dated February
23. 1673.
THE
CONTENTS.
| Chap. 1. Of the false, irrational, and unchristian censures, that have been, and yet are cast upon learned Men for writing of abstruse subjects: As also for treating of Apparitions and Witchcraft, especially if they crossed the common stream of vulgar opinion. | Page [1]. |
| Chap. 2. Of the Notion, Conception, and Description of Witches and Witchcraft according to divers Authors, and in what sense they may be granted, and in what sense and respect they are denied. | p. [19]. |
| Chap. 3. The denying of such a Witch as is last described in the foregoing Chapter doth not infer the denying of Angels, or Spirits. Apparitions no warrantable ground for a christian to believe the existence of Angels, or Devils by, but the word of God. | p. [37]. |
| Chap. 4. That the Scriptures, and sound reason are the true and proper mediums to prove the actions attributed unto Witches by, and not other improper ways that many Authors have used. And of the requisites necessary truly to prove a matter of fact by. | p. [43]. |
| Chap. 5. That these things now in question, are but barely supposed, and were yet never rationally nor sufficiently proved: And that the Allegations brought to prove them by are weak, frivolous, and absolutely invalid: with a full confutation of all the four particulars. | p. [63]. |
| Chap. 6. That divers places in Scripture have been mis-translated thereby to uphold this horrid opinion of the Devils omnipotency, and the power of Witches, when there is not one word that signifieth a familiar Spirit, or a Witch in that sense that is vulgarly intended. | p. [106]. |
| Chap. 7. Of divers places in the Old Testament, that are commonly wrested, and falsly expounded, thereby to prove Apparitions, and the power of the Devil, and Witches. | p. [136]. |
| Chap. 8. Of the Woman of Endor that pretended to raise up Samuel, and of some other places in the Scriptures, not handled yet, and of some other objections. | p. [165]. |
| Chap. 9. Of Divine permission, providence and prescience. | p. [183]. |
| Chap. 10. Whether faln Angels be corporeal, or simply incorporeal, and the absurdity of the assuming of Bodies, and the like consequents. | p. [197]. |
| Chap. 11. Of the knowledge, and power of faln Angels. | p. [215]. |
| Chap. 12. If the Devils or Witches have power to perform strange things, whether they do not bring them to pass by mere natural means, or otherwise? And of Helmont’s opinion concerning the effects caused by Devils or Witches. | p. [241]. |
| Chap. 13. That the ignorance of the power of Art and Nature, and such like things, hath much advanced these foolish and impious opinions. | p. [267]. |
| Chap. 14. Of divers Impostures framed and invented to prove false and lying miracles by, and to accuse persons of Witchcraft, from late and undeniable authorities. | p. [270]. |
| Chap. 15. Of divers creatures that have a real existence in nature, and yet by reason of their wonderous properties, or seldom being seen, have been taken for Spirits and Devils. | p. [279]. |
| Chap. 16. Of Apparitions in general, and of some unquestionable stories, that seem to prove some such things. Of those Apparitions pretended to be made in Beryls and Crystals, and of the Astral or Sydereal Spirit. | p. [288]. |
| Chap. 17. Of the force and efficacy of words or charms, whether they effect any thing at all, or not, and if they do, whether it be by natural or diabolical virtue and force. | p. [321]. |
THE
DISPLAYING
OF SUPPOSED
WITCHCRAFT.