A discourse of the damned art of witchcraft. So farre forth as it is revealed in the Scriptures and manifested by true experience / framed and delivered by William Perkins in his ordinary course of preaching, and published by Thomas Pickering.

  • William Perkins
Date:
1631
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Credit: A discourse of the damned art of witchcraft. So farre forth as it is revealed in the Scriptures and manifested by true experience / framed and delivered by William Perkins in his ordinary course of preaching, and published by Thomas Pickering. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ] A Table of the Contents. . / He EmrAttce into the ^ifcourfe*V^^*6Q’J. c. I. CHAP. I. ’ Of the Nature of Witchcraft in gcnerall. • ® That Witchcraft u an Art, 6o’J»c,2 • That Witchcraft u a wicked Art, _ 608.c.2. The end of Witchcraft; To worke wonders, 608. C.2. The gronrds of working wonder Sy difeontentment and Curiopty, ' 608.C.2. That- wonders are wrought hy Satans ajfi-^ fiance, dop.c.i. The forts of wonders. True wonders wrought onely by God, 6og,c,i,'i, Zjying'wondhrs wrought by Satan and his in¬ fir uments, ' 61 o.c. I. That Satan is able to doe extraordinary workgs by the heipe of Nature, 6j o.c.2. The forts of Lying wonders. 6ii,c,i, l.lllufionsyofthej^^^^.^^^^ 611.C.1. l,Tsallworkes, 6i2,c,l, That Satan cam.ot change one creature into another, 613.C.1. Gods Perniijfion of the praUices of Witchcraft* why hepermitteth them ^ 615.C.2. Satan cannot goe beyond his Pertnijfion, 614.C.1. CHAP. IT. Of the Ground of all the prailices of Witchcraft. That there is a league betweene Satan and the Wttch, 614.C.2. This League is twofold, ■ Exprejfe or open, 61 ^.c.2. S ecr'et; and the degrees thereof, 616, c.i. CHAP. III. Of thePartsof Witchcraft, andfirft of ' Divinatioa. How Satan beingacreaturey revealeththings to come, V ' 6iy,c,i, D ivination by meaneSywhich are the true crea¬ tures of Cod; <sy€sy rrr- Ey the flying and noyfe of Birds. 618.C.2. By the Intralls ofBeafts, 61 p.c.i. By the Starresycalied ludteiarie Aftrolo.. I gie, 620.c,i, That Pr editions by the Starres are unlaw- fuP., 520.C.I.^22.C.I. Of the Obfervationofthe Signe, 622.0,2. Of the choice andobfervation of dates, 623.0,1. tffDivine, 62 3 .c.2. ByDreamesy^NaturalL 623.C.2. ' IfJDiabolicall, 624.C.1. Notes of Difference to know them each _ from other, 624.C.2. By Lots, Divination by counterfeit meanes; Ngcroman.- cie, 626.c#i. whether that which wasraifed by the Witch of Endor was true Samuel or 626.0,1.2. Divination without meanes; by immediate affi- fiance of afamiliar Spirit. 6 28.C. 2, PraHifedtwowayes, \,whenthe fpirit is within the Witch, 628. c.2. 2. when he is out of the Witch, 618.C.2. The Difference betweene Trances divine and diahelicad, 62p,c.i, . CHAP; IV. Of working Witchcraft. The parts of it, ihchanlment; What it is, 629.0.2. What a Charme is, 6qo,c,i. whether the (fharme be in it felfe effegluall to worke wonders, 63 o.c.2. Particular praUices referred to Inchant- mem, 633.C.2. Jugling; coHpfiing in delufion andfleight, 63 5. c. I. That the wonders done by the Sorcerers of S- gypt before Pharaoywere luglingfUights and not true andreallworkes, 63 3.0,2, CHAP. V. Of Witches, what a Witch is, LTow many forts of Witches. \ The bad Witch, r 636.0.2^ 637, c,2 638. C.1 The