Daimonomageia. A small treatise of sicknesses and diseases from witchcraft, and supernatural causes. Never before, at least in this comprised order, and general manner, was the like published : being useful to others besides physicians, in that it confutes atheistical, sadducistical, and sceptical principles and imaginations / [Anon].

  • William Drage
Date:
1665
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Credit: Daimonomageia. A small treatise of sicknesses and diseases from witchcraft, and supernatural causes. Never before, at least in this comprised order, and general manner, was the like published : being useful to others besides physicians, in that it confutes atheistical, sadducistical, and sceptical principles and imaginations / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    all things that arc reported , »:ua ; nor all thirds that are true, arc re¬ potted : the proving one thing falfe, doth not deny another to be true ; and the proving faifnets in any one thing, doth not prove there is onely faifnefs in that thing: Shall we judge becaufe there be fome Hypocrites in Religion, that there be none fincere ? or becaufe one Man lyed, therefore no Man may fpeak true? for he lyed not* quoad a Man, but quoad untrue *, we muft fee where the diftin&ion and ltreis of an Argu¬ ment lic3,whcther in the Thing, or its Attribute , and therein concern¬ ing Witchcraft,many miftake themfelves: if we will go about to prove in any Profeflton that there be Impoftors and Diftemblersy we mall fufficientiy prove thereby that there is truth in the thing , from which thefe Impoftors and Diffemblers do recede and deviate ; elte hey mil be proved not to be.Impoftors and Diffemblers: It doth not follow that becaufe one Man lies awake with his eyes (hut, and another lies alleep With his eyes open , that all men muft do fo: Witches may ao all that 7u°leis do, but Juglers cannot do all that Witches can do; and to con¬ demn the fraud and impotence of the greater, by the fraud and impo¬ tence of the lefl'e, is an impertinent proof: and alfo they differ more then quoad gradam ct modum-, we muff not prove by deep that death is ttie fame, became it is like it. Sornnas eft mortis imago, omne ftmile non eft idem. Some believe concerning Witches, and not concerning Spirits; and fome believe concerning Spirits, and not concerning ^ uc e • fome believe both, and fome neither: and as many i^ that, that was falfe to writing, fomany men did omit that thatwa’te in writing; and many things are written that are true, that are not tui- ly written as they are true. ' _ . ..,Arri , ^ But fometime there is more controverts and difpute about the word, one fpeakes , Witch,as to its vulgar acceptation, another as to its g«- ine fignification; and pethips both may mean one thing. I peiceive many things we have writ in this Book are not fo ftrange to moft London¬ ers as to Country People ; -and many things are more familiar to Coun¬ try People then Londoners; and the Vulgar do common y ju „ ^ that little Experience they.hive; and I amconfident ten thcula°P^’' in the City of London , and proportionally in the Coun”y>^nb° their Experience of thefe things : And the onely way to decide aH c trovetfies, is to have,as it were,a trial at an Aflizes, and all] the: vw - nstles to be fwotn ; many woulddepofe upon Oath their infallible E - perience in thefe things, and Experience muft be that that muft ump