[32] To Professor Burr I owe my knowledge of this ascription. The translator (the English Quaker, William Sewel, all his life a resident of Holland), calls him "N. Orchard, Predikant in Nieuw-Engeland."
[33] See Doctrine of Devils, chaps. VII, VIII, and cf. Scot, Discoverie of Witchcraft, 512-514.
[34] Glanvill had answered a somewhat similar argument, that the miracles of the Bible were wrought by the agency of the Devil.
[35] He said also that, if the Devil could take on "men's shapes, forms, habits, countenances, tones, gates, statures, ages, complexions ... and act in the shape assumed," there could be absolutely no certainty about the proceedings of justice.
[36] The book had been written four years earlier.
[37] See G. L. Kittredge, "Notes on Witchcraft," in American Antiquarian Soc., Proceedings, n. s., XVIII (1906-1907), 169-176.
[38] There is, however, no little brilliance and insight in some of Webster's reasoning.
[39] Displaying of Supposed Witchcraft, 38-41.
[40] Displaying of Supposed Witchcraft, 53.
[41] Ibid., 68.