The mystery of witch-craft Discouering, the truth, nature, occasions, growth and power thereof. Together with the detection and punishment of the same. As also, the seuerall stratagems of Sathan, ensnaring the poore soule by this desperate practize of annoying the bodie: with the seuerall vses therof to the Church of Christ. Very necessary for the redeeming of these atheisticall and secure times. By Thomas Cooper.
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The mystery of witch-craft Discouering, the truth, nature, occasions, growth and power thereof. Together with the detection and punishment of the same. As also, the seuerall stratagems of Sathan, ensnaring the poore soule by this desperate practize of annoying the bodie: with the seuerall vses therof to the Church of Christ. Very necessary for the redeeming of these atheisticall and secure times. By Thomas Cooper.
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Cooper, Thomas, fl. 1626.
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London :: Printed by Nicholas Okes,
1617.
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Witchcraft -- Early works to 1800.
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"The mystery of witch-craft Discouering, the truth, nature, occasions, growth and power thereof. Together with the detection and punishment of the same. As also, the seuerall stratagems of Sathan, ensnaring the poore soule by this desperate practize of annoying the bodie: with the seuerall vses therof to the Church of Christ. Very necessary for the redeeming of these atheisticall and secure times. By Thomas Cooper." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A19295.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 20, 2025.
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CHAP. II.
A second generall vse, is for Instruction. That first wee would leaue to a∣uoyd the Causes of Witch-craft.
Which are
1. Ignoraunce.
2. Infidelitie.
3. Malice.
4. Couetousnesse.
5. Curiositie, &c.
6. Pride, &c.
Concerning Ignorance of GOD.
THat this is a cause of Witch-craft, appeareth:
Because, through the Ignorance that* 1.1is in vs, we are led captiue by Sathan at his pleasure, as being subiect iustly to his strong delusions, because we haue not receiued the Loue of the Truth, be∣cause wee know not whom to wor∣ship, how to worship God a right; therefore doth the God of this world blind
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vsbecause the Gospel is hid from vs. 2. Cor. 4. 5, 6.
And doth not Witch-craft vsually preuaile; when either there is no meanes for knowledge, or else the Truth of God is detayned in vnrighte∣ousnesse, and so for our disobedience wee are iustly giuen vp to such De∣lusions, remember what hath for∣merly beene obserued to this end.
The Remedie thereof is:
1. To haue the word of God dwell plen∣tifully among vs, both in the Publike ordinances of the Preaching and Ex∣pounding thereof; as also in the Pri∣uate Reading, & conferring of the same in our Families.
2. To haue the Power thereof, to Rule vs in all our wayes: To yeelde * 1.2 obedience thereunto, to hearken to this voyce alone, and to cleaue there∣vnto constantly: Endeuouring so to walke, as we haue receiued Christ Iesus. Col. 2. 4. And to be daily cast into the mould thereof. 2. Cor. 3.