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An historical essay concerning witchcraft. With observations upon matters of fact; tending to clear the texts of the sacred Scriptures, and confute the vulgar errors about that point, and also two sermons. One in proof of the Christian religion; the other concerning the good and evil angels / By Francis Hutchinson.
- Francis Hutchinson
- Date:
- 1718
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: An historical essay concerning witchcraft. With observations upon matters of fact; tending to clear the texts of the sacred Scriptures, and confute the vulgar errors about that point, and also two sermons. One in proof of the Christian religion; the other concerning the good and evil angels / By Francis Hutchinson. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![rais'd the Dead. Three feveral Times he gave that great Proof of his divine Power, in fiich manner, and with fuch Circmnftances, as leave no Room for Doubt or Sufpicion. Jairw s Daughter, was after the Minftrels had begun to lament her Death, ac¬ cording to the Cuftom of thofe Times. The Widow's Son at Nain, was before the good People of the Town, that were carrying of him out upon his Bier to his,Funeral. Arid his railing Lazarus, was before a great Company, after he had been no lefs than Four Days dead and bury'd. Now do not fuch Miracles as thefe make a Proof fufficient > Can Atheiftical Men confound thefe with the Wonders of Nature, or Feats of Devils ? If there flood now a Bier with a dead Body in this Church, while I am preaching of the future State, as made known to us by Jefus} and if in the midfl: of the Difcourfe, the dead Body Ihould rife up in our Sight, would any Atheift or Sadducee pretend, that the fu¬ ture State was not fufficiently provM by fuch a Mi¬ racle. Men belye even the Hardnefs of their own Hearts, if they fhould pretend, that they could think, that fuch a Miracle would not be Evidence enough. But to proceed from this to the Conflderation of his own Death: A voluntary Dead], or Martyrdom, is the moft convincing Proof that is in any Man's Power to give of his own Sincerity. We cannot name a greater : And this our bleffed Saviour added to all the others that I have fpoken to already. For he came voluntarily up to Jerufalem *, he put him- felf into the midft of his-Enemies, tho' he was told, that they had paft the peremptory Sentence, that they would take him off the firft Time that he came into their Hands. His Apoftles were amaz'd when they perceiv'd him refolv'd upon that 3 and as he was fpeaking of it to them, that fo it muft be, St. Veter took upon him to difluade him from it. And * . if](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30500370_0001_0267.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
