[36] Ibid., 127-130.
[37] Ibid., ch. VIII, 134.
[38] Ibid., 135.
[39] See p. 118. This Treatise was first published in 1655. Four years later, in 1659, he published A True and faithful Relation of what passed ... between Dr. John Dee, ... and some spirits. In the preface to this he announced his intention of writing the work which he later published as Of Credulity and Incredulity.
[40] In passing we must mention Richard Farnworth, who in 1655 issued a pamphlet called Witchcraft Cast out from the Religious Seed and Israel of God. Farnworth was a Quaker, and wrote merely to warn his brethren against magic and sorcery. He never questioned for a moment the facts of witchcraft and sorcery, nor the Devil's share in them. As for the witches, they were doomed everlastingly to the lake of fire.
[41] Dæmonologie and Theologie. The first, the Malady ..., The Second, The Remedy (London, 1650).
[42] Ibid., 42.
[43] Ibid., 16.
[44] See the Introduction to the Advertisement.
[45] Filmer noted further that the Septuagint translates the Hebrew word for witch as "an Apothecary, a Druggister, one that compounds poysons."