Lectures on Witchcraft, Comprising a History of the Delusion in Salem, in 1692 |
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Page 82 - Tell us your thoughts about them, then.' Martin. ' No, my thoughts are my own when they are in, but when they are out, they are another's. Their master — ' Mag. 'Their master! Who do you think is their master?' Martin. ' If they be dealing in the black art, you may know as well as I.
Page 164 - That no minister or ministers, without license and direction of the Bishop, under his hand and seal obtained, attempt upon any pretence whatsoever either of Possession or Obsession, by fasting and prayer, to cast out any devil or devils, under pain of the imputation of Imposture or Cozenage, and deposition from the ministry.
Page 168 - made up that confession on purpose to destroy my own life, being weary of it, and choosing rather to die than live.' Sir George Mackenzie says that he went to examine some women who had confessed, and that one of them, who was a silly
Page 64 - 64 their pleasure to put me in here, and God knows how soon I shall be put to death. Dear Father, let me beg your prayers to the •Lord on my behalf, and send us a joyful and happy meeting in heaven. My mother, poor woman, is very crazy, and remembers her kind
Page 178 - that he assumes the honorable style of a Christian,' not because ' it is the religion of his country," but because, ' having in his riper years and confirmed judgment, seen and examined all, he finds himself obliged, by the principles of grace, and the law of his own reason, to embrace no