 | Coleman Phillipson - 1923 - 376 pages
...itself is a truth to which every nation in the world hath in turn borne testimony, either by examples seemingly well attested, or by prohibitory laws which at least suppose the possibility of commerce with evil spirits." •S1. ' The author here warns the reader that if he confines his attention... | |
 | William J. Fielding - 1999 - 392 pages
...to contradict the revealed Word of God in various passages of the Old and New Testaments, and the1 thing itself is a truth to which every nation in the...the possibility of a commerce with evil spirits." The Church at a very early period formally admitted its existence, and fulminated against all who practiced... | |
 | Brenda Murphy - 1999 - 330 pages
...is a truth to which every nation in the world hath in its turn borne testimony, either by examples seemingly well attested, or by prohibitory laws, which at least suppose the possibility of commerce with evil spirits." (339-4o) 27. See Bentley, "Miller's Innocence," 23 and David Levin, "Salem... | |
 | 538 pages
...is a truth to which every nation in the world hath in its turn borne testimony, either by examples seemingly well attested, or by prohibitory laws, which...the possibility of a commerce with evil spirits." In Brown's Dictionary of the Bible, published at Edinburg, Scotland, in 1807, it is said that: "A witch... | |
 | Arthur M. Melzer, Robert P. Kraynak - 2008 - 240 pages
...nation in the world hath in its turn borne testimony, by either examples seemingly well attested or prohibitory laws which at least suppose the possibility of a commerce with evil spirits." He therefore endorses the urbane suggestion of The Spectator that one should believe "in general there... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1817 - 596 pages
...tiuth to which every nation in the world has borne testimony, either !>y «ell-authenticated examples, or by prohibitory laws, which at least suppose the possibility of a commerce with evil spirits. The civil law punished with death both the sorcerers themselves and those who con* No, 290, Nov. iei6,... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1843 - 640 pages
...every nation in the world hath in its turn borne testimony, either by examples seemingly well tested, or by prohibitory laws ; which at least suppose the possibility of a commerce with evil spirits." Why, then, should the executions at Salem in 1692, deserve to be singled out, as something most extraordinary... | |
 | Alexander Wilson M'Clure - 1847 - 596 pages
...is a truth to which every nation in the world hath in its turn borne testimony, either by examples seemingly well attested, or by prohibitory laws, which at least suppose the possibility of commerce with evil spirits." In our own country, at the time of Cotton Mather, the belief in witchcraft... | |
 | New England Society in the City of Brooklyn - 1881 - 588 pages
...world hath in its turn borne testimony, either by examples seemingly well attested, or by prohibiting laws which at least suppose the possibility of a commerce with evil spirits." Now be it remembered that these words of the great commentator were seventy-three years after the Salem... | |
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... is at once flatly to contradict the revealed word of God, in various passages both of the Old and New Testament: and the thing itself is a truth to which every nation in the world hath in its turn borne testimony, either by examples seemingly well... 
