The triall of vvitch-craft shewing the true and right methode of the discouery: with a confutation of erroneous wayes. By Iohn Cotta, Doctor in Physicke.

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Title: The triall of vvitch-craft shewing the true and right methode of the discouery: with a confutation of erroneous wayes. By Iohn Cotta, Doctor in Physicke.
Author: Cotta, John, 1575?-1650?
Publication: London :: Printed by I[ohn] L[egat] for Richard Higgenbotham, and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the Angel in Pauls Church-yard,; 1624.
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Subject terms: Witchcraft -- Early works to 1800.
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1. An assured Witch by euidence of reason conuinced.
2. All Spirits that are enquired at, are Diuels.
3. Witches may be detected by professedly vndertaking, and vp∣on promise or couenant performing reuelations and disco∣ueries aboue the power and knowledge of man.
4. All men in whom the Diuell doth exercise supernaturall workes or miracles, or by whom he doth vtter supernatu∣rall reuelations, are not simply therefore by necessary con∣sequent of reason to be esteemed. Witches but with some few considerations which therewith conioyned and dewly weighed may infallibly prooue their guilt thus: He that vndertaketh reuelations or workes which are truly found supernaturall, and cannot either prooue them to be of God, nor to be imposture, nor to be imposed vpon him by the Di∣uell without his will, allowance, and liking thereof, that man by certaine Demonstration is a Witch or Sorcerer. What Witchcraft is, manifestly described.