Shapes and Figures, like humane and other Bodies, we affirm, and it is plain from the Scripture, as to Angels, and I shall make the same good, in reference to other Spirits in due place. So that we may suppose it still; till Mr. Webster hath evinced the contrary, as he promiseth. How he performs I shall consider in due place.
His second Argument is, That he is not of their Opinion, that the Devils move, and rove up and down in this Elementary World at pleasure. Which no one I know saith. They go to and fro, and compass the Earth, but still within the bounds of the Divine permission, the Laws of the Angelical World, and those of their own Kingdom; which prevent the Troubles and Disturbances in the World from them, which he saith would insue.
ADVERTISEMENT.
Thus far runs the Proof of the Existance of Apparitions and Witchcraft, from Holy Scripture, entire. The three or four Lines that follow in the M.S. and are left out, break off abruptly. But what is said, sufficiently subverts the force of Mr. Webster's Arguments against their Opinion, that say it was the Devil that appeared to Saul. I will only here take notice, that this part which reaches hitherto, though it be not fully finished, yet it abundantly affords Proof, for the Conclusion namely, for the Existence of Spirits, Apparitions, and Witches, from Testimony of Holy Scripture, to as many as yield to the Authority thereof. But the following Collection is a Confirmation of the same things, as well to the Anti-Scripturists, as to them that believe Scripture.
And the leading Story of the Dæmon of Tedworth, I hope now will prove irrefragable, and unexceptionable, if the Reader retain in his mind, Mr. Glanvil's Preface to this second Part of his Saducismus Triumphatus, and Mr. Mompesson's Letters, the one to Mr. Glanvil, the other to Mr. Collins, which cannot but abundantly undeceive the World. So that it is needless to record how Mr. Glanvil wrote to Mr. William Claget of Bury, and professed, He had not the least ground to think he was imposed on in what he related, and that he had great cause from what he saw himself, to say, it was impossible there should be any Imposture in that business.
