Scot's Discovery of vvitchcraft proving the common opinions of witches contracting with divels, spirits, or familiars ... to be but imaginary, erronious conceptions and novelties : wherein also, the lewde unchristian all written and published in anno 1584, by Reginald Scot, Esquire.
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Scot's Discovery of vvitchcraft proving the common opinions of witches contracting with divels, spirits, or familiars ... to be but imaginary, erronious conceptions and novelties : wherein also, the lewde unchristian all written and published in anno 1584, by Reginald Scot, Esquire.
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Scot, Reginald, 1538?-1599.
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[London] :: Printed by R.C. and are to be sold by Giles Calvert ...,
1651.
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Witchcraft -- Early works to 1800.
Demonology -- Early works to 1800.
Occultism -- Early works to 1800.
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"Scot's Discovery of vvitchcraft proving the common opinions of witches contracting with divels, spirits, or familiars ... to be but imaginary, erronious conceptions and novelties : wherein also, the lewde unchristian all written and published in anno 1584, by Reginald Scot, Esquire." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A62395.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 30, 2024.
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CHAP. XVII.
The opinion of Winchmo••gers, that Divels can create bodies, and of Pharaohs Magicians.
IT is affirmed by Iames Sprenger and Henry Institor, in M. Mal. who cite Albert. In lib. de animalib. for their purpose, that divels and Witches al∣so can truely make living creatures as well as God; though not at an in∣stant, yet very sodainly. Howbeit, all such who are rightly informed in Gods word, shall manifestly perceive and confesse the contrary, as hath been by Scriptures already proved, and may be confirmed by places in∣finite. And therefore Iannes and Iambres, though Satan and also Bel∣zebub had assisted them, could never have made the serpent or the frogs of nothing, nor yet have changed the waters with words. Neverthelesse, all the learned expositors of that place affirm, that they made a shew of crea∣tion, &c. exhibiting by cunning a resemblance of some of those mira∣cles, which God wrought by the hands of Moses. Yea S. Augustine and many other hold, that they made by art (and that truly) the serpents, &c. But that they may by art approach somewhat neerer to those actions, than hath been yet declared, shall and may appear by these and many other conclusions, if they be true.