Volume 2

Of credulity and incredulity; in things divine and spiritual: wherein, (among other things) a true and faithful account is given of the Platonick philosophy, as it hath reference to Christianity: as also the business of witches and witchcraft. Against a late writer, fully argued and disputed. / By Merick Casaubon, D.D. and one of the prebends of Christ-Church, Canterbury.

Méric Casaubon

Date:: 1670

Credit: Of credulity and incredulity; in things divine and spiritual: wherein, (among other things) a true and faithful account is given of the Platonick philosophy, as it hath reference to Christianity: as also the business of witches and witchcraft. Against a late writer, fully argued and disputed. / By Merick Casaubon, D.D. and one of the prebends of Christ-Church, Canterbury. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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